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<blockquote data-quote="mustangkoda" data-source="post: 342169" data-attributes="member: 5485"><p>i'm just glad i don't have to worry about saving miniture horses any more. how much meat can you get off of a mini anyway??? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" /> we've saved a couple that we bought ourselfs, the greatest little show horses, and then we bought a stallion that was going to market, sold him at a show, great bloodlines and confermation, and temperment. the new owners love him!!!! my mom also saved a quarterhorse/thoughrbred mix. 17 hands, gentle as can be, was used for a kids camp till he was "no longer making money", he'd foundered and was feeling tired and they could not "aford" to let him have a couple months off to recoop. we bought him, gave him rest, changed his diet, light exercise and after a couple of months was a new horse. we got him at 15 tired as can be, could barely walk, after a couple of months he was cantering with my brother. he died at age 23 of colic.</p><p></p><p>besides, if my horse got to the point that it was time to go i'd put him down first before sending him to a meat market. that's the thanks he gets for putting up with humans, working for them and putting up with our demands, just to get "your moneys worth" no thanks. i'd rather put them down first.</p><p></p><p>i have a mustang that after i had him for a few yrs, i found out he was half blind. i had several people ask me if or why i was keeping him?? just because he's not perfect??? he made and great 4 h horse for my neices and nephew. he learned to barrel race with them. my oldest neice, the only one i would trust to do this, jumped him over beginner jumps. he is now 19 and will happily live out his life here with us. he's earned it.</p><p></p><p>sorry to rant, but i for one don't like sending horses to slaughter, just because they are no longing of any use to us or past his prime</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mustangkoda, post: 342169, member: 5485"] i'm just glad i don't have to worry about saving miniture horses any more. how much meat can you get off of a mini anyway??? :mad: we've saved a couple that we bought ourselfs, the greatest little show horses, and then we bought a stallion that was going to market, sold him at a show, great bloodlines and confermation, and temperment. the new owners love him!!!! my mom also saved a quarterhorse/thoughrbred mix. 17 hands, gentle as can be, was used for a kids camp till he was "no longer making money", he'd foundered and was feeling tired and they could not "aford" to let him have a couple months off to recoop. we bought him, gave him rest, changed his diet, light exercise and after a couple of months was a new horse. we got him at 15 tired as can be, could barely walk, after a couple of months he was cantering with my brother. he died at age 23 of colic. besides, if my horse got to the point that it was time to go i'd put him down first before sending him to a meat market. that's the thanks he gets for putting up with humans, working for them and putting up with our demands, just to get "your moneys worth" no thanks. i'd rather put them down first. i have a mustang that after i had him for a few yrs, i found out he was half blind. i had several people ask me if or why i was keeping him?? just because he's not perfect??? he made and great 4 h horse for my neices and nephew. he learned to barrel race with them. my oldest neice, the only one i would trust to do this, jumped him over beginner jumps. he is now 19 and will happily live out his life here with us. he's earned it. sorry to rant, but i for one don't like sending horses to slaughter, just because they are no longing of any use to us or past his prime [/QUOTE]
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