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True a few owners lived close enough to a plant to haul their own horses in. Most horse owners don't live anywhere near a plant that would kill horses. The small shops and multi-species plants usually don't have a high enough rail to process horses.

The service is provided by the kill buyer. Very few owners sell directly to the plant. The kill buyer has orders to fill. He will fill his order with cheap or free healthy horses where ever he can get them. He delivers them to the plant and gets paid for the ones they don't reject. Most...

The way it usually works is that the owner sells the horse at auction, or he may advertise him for sale cheap or "free to a good home." The kill buyer gets your horse for next to nothing and pretends he is going to a good home. Then the kill buyer sells him to the plant and provides paper work...

The biggest problem with getting investors to open a plant is that the market for the horse meat will be cut severely by July 2013. The EU put laws in place in 2008 to make sure they are only buying meat from horses that are raised under meat animal protocols. The interim regulation allows the...

Not likely. Texas is one of the few States that has a State law banning horse slaughter.

Thanks Angus for finally giving an answer. I have a over 200 head of Angus breeding stock and 10 horses so I know the difference in the way they eat. Horses bite the grass close to the ground leaving it much shorter. Cattle wrap their tongue around it and pull so they can't eat the short...

I have a good guarantee on my bulls and I wouldn't give him his money back. We give a one season breeding guarantee. If something happens to the bull in the first breeding season we supply a loaner bull to get his cows bred. I've had a time when I didn't have a spare and borrowed one from a...

I don't get it. Why do you all hate the horses so much? Why can't you just let them stay on the lands they were supposed to be on. Many cattleman get permits to graze cattle on these public lands and are allowed to graze far more cattle than there are horses. Horses are flight animals and...

The BLM's intention is not to send horses to slaughter. They adopt these horses out to good homes for $125. Knowing that adoptions are way down, they intend to keep them in pens and small pastures, feeding them on the tax payers $$ for the rest of their life. That is after they pay over a...

There is no over population of wild horses. Horses are a small percentage of the total animals grazing on public lands and they are not in jeopardy of running out of food or water. There is an overpopulation of domesticated horses. Seems like anyone who owns a mare thinks they should raise a...

Anyone following the BLM's (bureau of land management) wild horse round ups? Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, wants to severely limit the number of protected mustangs grazing in their allocated HMAs (herd management areas). They have barred the public from viewing the roundups. They...

You might try some pro-biotics. Many horses loose weight after fighting an infection because the antibiotics destroy the gut bugs that help digest their feed. Most get their gut balance back on their own, but if they don't they will gradually loose weight and become hard keepers. Good news is...

For many Hunter/Jumper and Dressage riders the "standard" size has always been 20 meters, or about 66 feet, (same as the width of a Dressage arena.)

The horse breed (or size) does have a lot to do with it. I ride warmbloods and larger TBs. I like a round pen that is 65 to 70 feet. My May yearling filly stands 15.1, and her full brother born last night stands 46 inches at birth. He wieghed 142 pounds at birth.

Micro chips are not even manditory for cattle. These rules are coming, and if you want them to be easy to work with you should try to be part of the solution. I suspect that any rules for horses will be much more lax than they are for food animals. Also the date for implementing rules for...

You need to learn what this is really about. There are reasons this will benefit the horse industry. There are horsemen working on making sure this is done in a way that will be workable for horses. Implementing NAIS for horses is way down the road, because they have to get it right for the...

My horses all like dried apricots.

Don't know if it will help this late in the game, but I always rub the calf's tongue with my finger. (Put your finger well in, press down and pull it outward.) Might stimulate him to pull with his tongue. Then I rub the calf's back quite briskly over or behind the hips. This is where the cow...

So what do you do when your horse loads well at home, and you finally go on that outing, or to a show, only to have the horse refuse to get back on the trailer to go home?