Meat money - Potters

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So how much do you actually get from Potters when you take your horse there? Is it done by weight as I have been told? My neighbour has sent her old girl of 35 and her 19 mare with sarcoids as she says she cannot afford the vet and disposal costs. Very sad. I know when I bought Peter for 'meat money' I paid £500. Mind you he was 18hh! Do you really get that much from the meat man. No wonder people send their horses there in that case.
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Divasmum I think Moneypit is referring to taking a horse to an abattoir rather than having a knackerman coming to the premises.

Think abattoirs pay on either live weight or dead weight (known in the meat trade as on the hoof or on the hook). Having not been down this route I would imagine that the only carcass they pay out on are ones that can go into the food chain (food chain included petfood as all petfood must be fit for human consumption). Have no idea whether you get more for live or dead weight.
 
i know it is not alot of money at all my friend took her 17hh weighing 750kg she got three hundred and twenty pounds that is nothing for a horse
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I'm sorry but how can you take your 35 year old horse to the abbatoir, if it was a matter of not being able to afford to have the horse PTS, I would sell whatever I could to able to keep them at home and PTS quietly and less stressfully.

As far as I know Potters is not closing, but they do now have a waiting list of horses waiting to be slaughtered.
 
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I'm sorry but how can you take your 35 year old horse to the abbatoir, if it was a matter of not being able to afford to have the horse PTS, I would sell whatever I could to able to keep them at home and PTS quietly and less stressfully.





As far as I know Potters is not closing, but they do now have a waiting list of horses waiting to be slaughtered.

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BECAUSE THE OWNER IS RESPONSIBLE AND LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD, NOT ROSY SPECS BUNNYLAND...
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Not positive but I think dead weight is the weight of the carcess with legs, head guts etc taken out which is approx half the weight of live weight ie entire horse. Thats what it is with cows.

I don't class myself as soft and certainly don't live in bunnyland, worked for a hunt and held many a horse to be shot, but I think you'd have to be pretty hard to load your trusty horse on a wagon and send it to be dog food just because its old.
 
Lilym believe me I live in the real world, always have done, can't afford to have rosy specs, but I still would move heaven and earth to make sure my old horse was put to sleep at home and it was as least stressful as possible.
 
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Lilym believe me I live in the real world, always have done, can't afford to have rosy specs, but I still would move heaven and earth to make sure my old horse was put to sleep at home and it was as least stressful as possible.

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I personally would too, but taking a horse to an abbatoir isn't necessarily an unpleasant or horrible experience for the horse at all. I believe they are compassionate and skilled at what they do and make sure the animal doesn't suffer.
 
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