2 tb mares at slaughter house :-(

[ha903070]

Just reading (and got upset) on facebook, horse chit chat wall, 2 tb mares with foals at foot at the slaughter house in Huddersfield, west Yorkshire, to be slaughtered on Sunday.

Thankfully they have found last minute homes for both the foals but the mares arent safe.

So sad. Wish I could afford to save them.

Its a lady called Joanne Arnold posting about them, at least she's found someone to sace the foals.

 

[team barney]

Very sad, and poor foals being weaned in such a fashion

 

[honetpot]

Unfortuately mares have been seen as a cheap way of making money. These poor animals have obviusly lost their worth and are no longer wanted. Better they go quickly now than someone buy them cheap and put them back in foal for the cycle to be continues.
I am a bit of a cyber stalker when buying and one animal I have seen for sale was a brood mare on a 'good stud' sold through Brightwells in foal for £400 in June and is now back for sale on one of the free websites, they are wanting £950, but there's not much a call for TB brood mares.

 

[ha903070]

Its so sad though, what a life. Its just lucky that the foals are saved as what was the point of breeding them to send them to slaughter? Obviously dont know the circs of how they got there.

It makes me realise how lucky my two tb mares are, one was sold as a possible broodmare when we bought her, shes wonderful had her 5 years, the other we bought for £150 last year and is now 3, lightly backed, either of them could be at that slaughter house now.

 

[bumblelion]

It's so sad

 

[Fii]

But if the mares are booked in to be slaughtered, you cant just "save" them, not without the owners consent anyway! The slaughter house cant sell them on.
Do you have a link to fb horse chit chat?

 

[FionaM12]

Better they go quickly now than someone buy them cheap and put them back in foal for the cycle to be continued.

This is a fair point. On the Dartmoor Hill Pony rescue thread, I told the tale of a foal I once knew who was "saved from the meat man" only to suffer dreadfully for the next couple of years due to the ignorance and domestic circumstances of his "rescuers". I hope these foals have been homed to good knowledgable homes and that if the the mares are saved they don't end up just producing more unwanted foals.

 

[FionaM12]

Its just lucky that the foals are saved

Not always . See my post above.

 

[ha903070]

https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/horsechitchat

I dont know if this will work not good at links sorry, nor do I know anything about horses at slaughter houses but assume the lady posting on there has more knowledge than me.

 

[rhino]

But if the mares are booked in to be slaughtered, you cant just "save" them, not without the owners consent anyway! The slaughter house cant sell them on.
Do you have a link to fb horse chit chat?

http://www.facebook.com/joanne.m.arnold?sk=wall

 

[ha903070]

I hear what you are saying Fiona I'm just trying to be positive for them as not all people who rescue are ignorant and neglectful so hopefully these fillies will be well looked after.

 

[cobmum]

How do people know about the horses going for slaughter unless they have sent them themselves?

 

[FionaM12]

Have you seen the state of them? Poor, poor, things.

 

[cobmum]

Have you seen the state of them? Poor, poor, things.

OMG!! Thats just horrid, why people dont PTS instead of starving horses i will never know!

 

[FionaM12]

I hear what you are saying Fiona I'm just trying to be positive for them as not all people who rescue are ignorant and neglectful so hopefully these fillies will be well looked after.

I agree with that. It's just that rescuing isn't always for the best, sadly. Sometimes it can make the problem worse, as if money changes hands more are bred to sell next time.

However, I'd be the first to rescue them all, if it was done responsibly. I'm not saying these aren't by the way, as I know nothing about the circumstances.

 

[ha903070]

I agree with you, no I dont know either about the rescue of them.

The poor poor mares just awful to see. So upsetting :-(

 

[HBrae2]

I just don't understand how these things can happen, how can anyone let a horse get into that state : (
I don't have Facebook so don't have any details. Why breed from a horse that they can't support and then send them to slaughter, it's horrible : (

 

[rubydog]

The above pictures look to me like they were taken in the car park at holmfirth horse sales, they make me want to cry, glad the foals are safe but feel so sorry for the mares, how could anyone let an animal get in to that state is beyond me and how can you buy the from the slaughter house?

 

[Fools Motto]

Sad, but sadly these things do happen.
After reading the chit-chat site, if the meat value for each mare is £450, then I doubt anyone would want or could have those mares. Maybe the foals will be lucky.

If that picture is genuine (and not implying it isn't) then I take it the foals are a matter of only days old?? (strange perhaps at this time of year??) Which leads me on to the fact that the picture posted 'looks' like it was from a few months ago - looking at leaves on the trees and the fact it is sunny! Could be wrong of course.

 

[ha903070]

You're right it is Holmfirth, says under the pic on her facebook this mare was for sale at Holmfirth auction so this mare may not be the one at the slaughter house? And someone commented about it being summer.

 

[ha903070]

On looking says these photos are from Sept 2010!

 

[Fools Motto]

On looking says these photos are from Sept 2010!

The plot thickens!

 

[FionaM12]

On looking says these photos are from Sept 2010!

Just noticed that too! They are entitled "the poor horses at a local auction". Maybe the person regularly rescues from auction?

 

[YorksG]

The mares may be going for slaughter, but there is no licensed abbatoir in Huddersfield

 

[FionaM12]

I've confused myself with those pictures now. Clearly different horses.

Note to self: Avoid posting late at night after three back-to-back 24 hour shifts. Wait till brain recovered from resulting exhaustion.

Speaking of which... 'night all. *yawns*

 

[Clippy]

£450 meat price for a TB?

 

[skint1]

So sad. Grateful to be able to hold on to our Tb mare til right circumstances found, hate to think of her ending like that.

 

[SusannaF]

The mares may be going for slaughter, but there is no licensed abbatoir in Huddersfield

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

 

[hairycob]

I'm probably barking up the wrong tree, but if you have 2 TD broodmares you don't want anymore that nobody wants to buy, posting on facebook about saving them from the meat man might be an effective method - dertainly cheaper than pts or paying for advertising.

 

[M_G]

This is a fair point. On the Dartmoor Hill Pony rescue thread, I told the tale of a foal I once knew who was "saved from the meat man" only to suffer dreadfully for the next couple of years due to the ignorance and domestic circumstances of his "rescuers". I hope these foals have been homed to good knowledgable homes and that if the the mares are saved they don't end up just producing more unwanted foals.

I say often on threads like this There IS a fate far WORSE than death & the rescue organisations/markets see it on a daily basis :-(