Fly grazing

Horsesforever1 said:
:mad:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17098490
If the council rouded up every last one and shot the bl***y lot the problem would resolve itself . Not a popular solution I dont suppose ; but what I'd do .
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No it won't! It would leave a lot of bodies laying about and then the complaints would come thick and fast!

I'd like to say I'd home several..... but I ain't ''taking from no gypsies''.... whatever they do, they do no wrong!
 
the squatter has moved his cobs back in the field opposite my house. Its council owned fields and theyve had no end of trouble getting him off there in the past, he just moves horses into fields if theres nothing in them :(
I was going to ring them council and tell them hes back but the poor buggers could use the grass tbh
 
Horsesforever1 said:
:mad:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17098490
If the council rouded up every last one and shot the bl***y lot the problem would resolve itself . Not a popular solution I dont suppose ; but what I'd do .
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No, trigger happy, it wouldn't resolve the problem, because the people breeding these horses would continue breeding them and there'd be a load more in a few months...
It's not the 'bl***y' horses who are the problem, it's the people who breed them.
 
Horsesforever1 said:
:mad:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17098490
If the council rouded up every last one and shot the bl***y lot the problem would resolve itself . Not a popular solution I dont suppose ; but what I'd do .
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I agree. Round the lot up. Hold them for a fixed period until the owners come up with passports & a fee to reclaim them. If that doesn't happen then send the lot to slaughter.

The horses are being bred for meat. If the owners don't get any revenue from their assets maybe they will stop letting them roam.
 
siennamum said:
I agree. Round the lot up. Hold them for a fixed period until the owners come up with passports & a fee to reclaim them. If that doesn't happen then send the lot to slaughter.

The horses are being bred for meat. If the owners don't get any revenue from their assets maybe they will stop letting them roam.
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Absolutely! its the same reason ponies eg sec A's are being over-bred. If the farmer can turn them out onto the mountain and make £20 a piece then he'll continue to breed them. The local councils need to enforce the passport law, fine people whoes horses dont have passports and confiscate all fly grazed horses. A few of the miserable poor b****rs are tethered near to where I am. If the owner gets a few £ each they are happy. The owners/breeders need to be hit hard in the pocket before they stop breeding them. Round up and shoot those without microchips and/or passports. Harsh in the short tern, effe3ctive in the longer therm when the owners find they cannot get away with it.
 
siennamum said:
I agree. Round the lot up. Hold them for a fixed period until the owners come up with passports & a fee to reclaim them. If that doesn't happen then send the lot to slaughter.

The horses are being bred for meat. If the owners don't get any revenue from their assets maybe they will stop letting them roam.
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Horsesforever1 said:
Absolutely! its the same reason ponies eg sec A's are being over-bred. If the farmer can turn them out onto the mountain and make £20 a piece then he'll continue to breed them. The local councils need to enforce the passport law, fine people whoes horses dont have passports and confiscate all fly grazed horses. A few of the miserable poor b****rs are tethered near to where I am. If the owner gets a few £ each they are happy. The owners/breeders need to be hit hard in the pocket before they stop breeding them. Round up and shoot those without microchips and/or passports. Harsh in the short tern, effe3ctive in the longer therm when the owners find they cannot get away with it.
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I doubt the cobs are bred for meat.I think it would be cruel to shoot them afterall they didnt ask for irresponsible owners.They look like lovely ponies.
 
As long as the breeders have stallions they will carry on regardless. Shooting the stray horses doesn't solve the problem - take the stallions away from the people who keep breeding, regulate breeding & enforce the microchip/passport laws rather than having them as a token piece of legislation.
Those of you who say 'shoot the horses' your bravado is all very well, but it's not a solution and it's an attitude fairly lacking in compassion.
 
char3479 said:
As long as the breeders have stallions they will carry on regardless. Shooting the stray horses doesn't solve the problem - take the stallions away from the people who keep breeding, regulate breeding & enforce the microchip/passport laws rather than having them as a token piece of legislation.
Those of you who say 'shoot the horses' your bravado is all very well, but it's not a solution and it's an attitude fairly lacking in compassion.
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Agreed.
 
Good idea to licence the stallions and all colts over 1 yr old IF the licence fee is substantial ie £1000 or more per colt or stallion and if the thjing is policed properly and people fined or jailed if flouting the law. I very much doubt this would happen. Also people with colts they are keeping entire with a view to them becoming stallions in the future would complain and it would hit legitimate well run studs in the pocket too . These fly grazers turn out 2 yr old colts with fillies and mares so its pointless just licencing stallions.
There isnt a lack of compassion here, its an attempt to provode a solution to stop the over breeding which goers on year after year by irresponsible people who then leave the horses to suffer or l;eave the welfasre people to puicjk up the mess ,and the bill. This is what is unfair.Its the owners of these animals who need to be punished and total removal of thier horses would do this without burdening the already full Redwings for example,.
 
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