Crowd funding to rear foals

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Heatherbelle

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A new crowd funding page has been set up to pay for the rearing of a foal found bedside it's dead mother on Exmoor. It is stated that this foal is part of a breeding programme, and was removed from the moor, seemingly with the consent of it's breeders, to another location, but not on the breeder's farm. Surely it is morally wrong to expect the general public to pay for the rearing of this foal? I am aware that no-one is forced to make a donation, but if this foal is, as was stated, part of a 'breeding programme', surely it is the reponsibility of the breeder to pay for the rearing of this foal, and not to beg the general public for money. If you plan a breeding programme the resultant foals are your responsibility and no-one elses?
 
of course the breeder should pay for it- this is also the same breeder that has had some dubious breeding programs in the past. There's been no answer yet to what the Cremello stallion actually is or why the breeder won't pay for their foal.
 
ester said:
Oh the clyde/exmoor one again!?
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This time it is a cremello stallion, not sure what breed but it is being promoted as though cremello was a breed. I find it very strange that someone who is running a carefully panned breeding programme, as is being suggested, would leave a are to foal out on the open hill, especially at this time of year when the keep is going steadily downhill. Why would anyone use a purebred rare breed mare to breed x breeds? The person who is crowd funding and apparently not the foal's owner is launching her new book soon.
 
I'm obviously missing a trick here! I hadn't realised that the rest of the world should be paying towards May's keep. How silly of me!
 
I agree with you but knowing of this breeder it's not a mission they will pay. I feel they want to just chuck them out and hope half decent animals come back in a few months ready to be sold on!
 
DabDab said:
I clicked through to her website....that stallion....oh god....there's no definition between it's neck and shoulder. I'm not sure the term obese really covers it :eek3:
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Heatherbelle said:
A new crowd funding page has been set up to pay for the rearing of a foal found bedside it's dead mother on Exmoor. It is stated that this foal is part of a breeding programme, and was removed from the moor, seemingly with the consent of it's breeders, to another location, but not on the breeder's farm. Surely it is morally wrong to expect the general public to pay for the rearing of this foal? I am aware that no-one is forced to make a donation, but if this foal is, as was stated, part of a 'breeding programme', surely it is the reponsibility of the breeder to pay for the rearing of this foal, and not to beg the general public for money. If you plan a breeding programme the resultant foals are your responsibility and no-one elses?
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Surely the practical thing would be to euthanize it.
 
KittenInTheTree said:
Surely the practical thing would be to euthanize it.
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Why? Orphan foal, nothing wrong with caring for it. The point here is that the BREEDER should bee the one to do that, not the general public who may think they are helping a purebred endangered breed, when in fact they are just helping someone who fancied having that endangered mare give birth to a random stallions spwan and then didnt want to look after it.
 
equi said:
Why? Orphan foal, nothing wrong with caring for it. The point here is that the BREEDER should bee the one to do that, not the general public who may think they are helping a purebred endangered breed, when in fact they are just helping someone who fancied having that endangered mare give birth to a random stallions spwan and then didnt want to look after it.
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Because if the breeder genuinely needs crowd funding to afford its care, then they clearly aren't able to afford to keep it, are they? So practically speaking, they would be better off euthanizing it, or selling/loaning/gifting it to someone who can afford its care; maybe with a mare that lost a foal or something. Isn't that how these sad affairs usually go?
 
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