Abbatoirs, what are they like?

Horse arrives
They take horse off you
You sort your lorry out (put ramp up)
They return your headcollar
You drive home
You get a cheque 14 days later

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(not from personal experience, from a well known source)
 
you go along at your alloted time, pony waits on te lorry/traler, is taken off, goes into the Hall...bang, gone...all before you have time to put your ramp up.


That's what happens down at Potters anyhow..not sure about Turners up your way...

no waiting in line, no seeing the horse in front being shot, no blood, no smell...quick and easy.
 
They don't look the nicest of places on telly, but really couldn't take a horse to an abbatoir that was alive! Think thy sense what's coming! Would rather have horse taken from me dead then i wouldn't have to think about what they are about to go through!
 
I thought you could - 2 of my friends had their horses PTS at our stables then taken off - although is not very graceful how they manage to put the horse in the lorry once it has been PTS.
 
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I thought you could - 2 of my friends had their horses PTS at our stables then taken off - although is not very graceful how they manage to put the horse in the lorry once it has been PTS.

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That would be a knackerman/woman, not an abattoir.
 
Ages ago someone posted a video on here of potters and what actually happens from begining to end, i thought i would be really upset by it and very wrongly assumed the worst of the whole abattoir experience. I was very impressed by the handling of the horses and the proffesional manner of the staff involved.
Sorry to hear you are having to think about having one PTS FA2 xx
 
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You get a cheque 14 days later



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O god, I couldn't take the money, I'd feel like Judas!

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No point taking the horse to the abattoir then.

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what she said.
 
I've heard potters isn't too bad but a friend that transported a horse to another one left in tears and said he had never seen anything like it and he's not easily upset. Also there is no saying at some places that your horse won't be sold on as I know in the past people that have bought horses from Potters though that was several years ago. Funnily enough have also heard that potters are currently the busiest they have ever been. personally my own horses are PTS in the field with their friends with me holding the leadrope. Sedated and lethal injection by my own vet never any other way.
 
i take mine to the hunt (Fitz). they are very calm, very professional, do it while i put the ramp up, it is instant. costs a lot lot less than getting a knackerman (i rang one about this recently and it was going to cost a surprising amount, he would only do it at my yard - i didn't want the others upset tbh.)
Abbatoirs such as Potters pay you, whereas the hunt and knackerman have to be paid.
 
My only problem/query with this is, if I was having my horse PTS, it would be cos it was v ill/ seriously injured and personally I wouldn't want to put it through the added trauma/ordeal of heading off in a wagon and to a strange place. I fall in the 'have the horse PTS at home' group I think. That's what happened with our last two anyway. I s'pose I see my horses the same as my dogs in that way.
 
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I've heard potters isn't too bad but a friend that transported a horse to another one left in tears and said he had never seen anything like it and he's not easily upset. Also there is no saying at some places that your horse won't be sold on as I know in the past people that have bought horses from Potters though that was several years ago. Funnily enough have also heard that potters are currently the busiest they have ever been. personally my own horses are PTS in the field with their friends with me holding the leadrope. Sedated and lethal injection by my own vet never any other way.

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the only one's Potters can sell..that is if they still do, would be the one's that SP owns/has bought at markets.

privately owned animals AREN'T bought by the Abattoir..they still belong to you..right up till they are dealt with...
 
I've not been to a horse abbatoir, but have seen videos and as others have said it is basically off lorry, into hall, bang, all over. I've been doing alot on slaughter at uni recently, and the woman who lectures us admitted that she had a preconceived idea of what a horse abattoir would be like and that she couldn't have been more wrong. She said the vast majority of horses she saw were calm, and had no idea what was about to happen, and that the few horses who were stressed seemed to be more bothered by the new surroundings than by some 'sense' of what was going to happen. I think we all hear horror stories of what happens at abbatoirs, but in reality the people there are highly skilled at what they do. At the end of the day, it is in their interests that any animal slaughtered is not too stressed as this affects the quality of the meat and therefore the value of the carcase.
 
God Forbid we EVER go the dreadful way of America..and the animals end up in hell-holes like those that are so common in Mexico...

i'd shoot them myself at home rather than take ANY animal of mine to a place like those...
 
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