D L TURNER

yes i do mean them! as im in a bit of a dilema at the mo cos ive gotta have my old pony put down and cant afford cremation. so just trying to find best place to have the deed carried out! so i wondered if anyone has any info on them as i want to find the best last place for the old man!
 
I take it you mean Turners at Sound, Nantwich?

We used to live not far from them and I would never want to take my horse there I have to say but that's more to do with me not liking abattoirs full stop than anything else! I feel I owe it to mine to have them put down at home by the kennels, not be transported to an alien place, but as I say that is my view, I know many people do not have a choice of where or what happens to their animals.

You can make an appointment there and they will put your horse down while you are there or you can just leave them there to be done later. They will pay you something for the carcass but I have no idea of the rates so not much help there, sorry.
Some years ago, probably well before passports were required, it was known that you could go and buy horses from them that had been sent to be put down, I don't know if that still goes on; usually, there is a good reason why horses have ended up there and many of them would be returned pretty quickly. Can you imagine how someone would feel if they suddenly came across their horse that they in all good faith had sent there to be put down, it must have been terrible for them. I don't think that is allowed to happen nowadays.
 
sorry, never heard of them but I did google the phone number and they come up a few times, Mrs Turner is also a BSJA Judge by the looks of one of the links, they also run a haulage company too. Sorry you have to have your pony put to sleep, good luck
 
Never sent a horse there no, but yes I know of them.

Interestingly the number there shows as Cheshire but its not... its in Derbyshire.. Thats a Bakewell (and surrounding area, number)

I was liveried about 5 minutes from them and one of the hacks we occasionally took went past Turners.

Erm... what to say. Pretty morbid looking place... he stables the horses often for a few days before they're PTS so used to see a lot of poor looking horses (and foals) in the field outside the slaughterhouse - it used to upset me every time
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Certainly in the area i was in, there were a lot of horrific horror stories floating around about them... of course, whether thats true or not is a different matter completly. In the few years I was stabled close by, we had 4 horses put to sleep at our yard and none of them ever went there nor was he ever called out to any of ours (YO wouldnt consider it at all). Our head groom stabled literally next door to the yard and Turners were there to PTS another livery on that yard which illegidly went horrifically wrong.... but again, I dont know first hand.

If you want to PM me, i'll explain what I was told.
 
You were able to buy a horse from them fairly recently - not sure if they still sell from there though.
However, they are regulars at Beeston and Derby sales, and I think you could only buy horses from them that had come from the sales - no privately owned ones that were specifically sent to be put down.

In answer to the OP - no, I would not send a much loved horse there as I can't think of anything more traumatic for a horse.
There are alternative options such as the hunt, and there are also operators who will take the carcass for rendering or cremation after the horse has been PTS in familiar surroundings.
 
Yes we used them a lot when we lived Up North.
Only one horse ever had an inkling what he was there for, and that put me off sufficiently never to go again.
You make an appointment, arrive and after an office visit there is no waiting about. The horse walks through pens sometimes filled with other horses eating haynets, through a big soundproof type door and into a wet room. The horse walks into a stock type partition, you can offer a feed or go away at this point and within seconds it's dead.
The floor then rotates or opens up I can't remember , the horse goes down below to the processing room and the whole thing gets washed clean of blood (that's why it's always wet).
They are without doubt professional and there is little stress involved you get paid within the month.
I now have ours done here but that's because I have the facilities, then I didn't.
Don't I warn you go to the other abbatoir.. I was totally traumatised after one visit there, they had blue plastic sticks, treated the horses like cows and I had to wait an hour after my appointed time.
pm me if you have any questions..
 
Dare I say it for a loved family pony I would always get the hunt out or the local knackerman so to speak - -and have them done at home. Wouldn't consider anything else. When my beloved mare was done a couple of years ago I think it cost around £250 which was for mass cremation so to speak. I wanted her last living moments to be at home with me.
 
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