Registered: Apr 2008
Location: Eastern Kentucky
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HOW CAN THEY have like Jim said a slaughter sale ever friday at Shipsheewanna , In. when there is a federal Ban in the U.S. . Every body around here is taking them too canada .

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Registered: Jan 2007
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 1144

i would just like to see horse prices go back up cant give a good horse away any more, especially a cull.dont know if it would make dog feed go back down to many rich peoples hands in the cookie jar now.

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Registered: Jan 2008
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i dont think people have woke up yet!! heard california passed a law banning farrowing crates, cagedbirds(egg producers) etc.

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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: SW Nebraska
Posts: 165

I was always told if you want to make 1 million in the horse business, you better start with 3 million. LOL. I wish they would quit talking about it and get the plants open. I remember when a weigh-up horse would bring $1.00/pound even a cull was worth something.

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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: bronaugh,MO
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Originally posted by Bobby W.
i dont think people have woke up yet!! heard california passed a law banning farrowing crates, cagedbirds(egg producers) etc.

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Registered: Oct 2007
Location: Iowa
Posts: 463

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Originally posted by Rob Ellett
And allot cheaper!

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Registered: Jul 2003
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i love my horses and the ones that i have i would not send to the kill pen.but i have sent problem horses there.these are livestock just like cows and pigs.there are horses out there that are starving and being miss treated because people don't have a eftive way to get rid of them.open up the slaughter houses.

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Registered: Oct 2006
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Posts: 330

My Grandpa retired from a horse slaughter facility in Neoga, IL many years ago of course. At the last he worked in the warehouse I think, but for years he was a skinner. This was an Alpo factory for a long time (closed now).

He said 99% of the time the horses being slaughtered were old nags that needed to be put down, but once in a while a nice horse would come in and it would be hard for them to kill it. Most of the time they tried to find someone to buy it instead. In fact one time he brought home a Shetland pony in the back seat of his Buick. Couldn't stand to kill the little guy, and he wasn't very old and was gentle (for a Shetland pony). They kept him for years afterwards.

I think they should reopen some. Maybe some people in this country would like to heat horse, I dunno, but mostly it'll be dog food I'm sure.

I'll never forget, my senior year in high school we had an exchange student from Brazil. One day a group of us were asking her about the foods they eat in Brazil,

"Oh, normal stuff," she said, "Cow, pig, horse."

"What, Horse?" someone asked.

"Yes, horse. You eat deer and horses are much cleaner than they are."

Kinda funny I thought.

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