Meat money?

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Hi all,

To any of you who have ever taken horses to the abattoir, how much do you get? I am not intending to do this by the way, I just wanted to know what is meant by "meat money"?

I always think that people over estimate meat money- saying that because a horse is being sold for £400 he will go for meat but this seems like an awful lot of money since that is what you can buy a bullock for?

Sorry for being thick :o
 
Totally depends on the markets and what type of animal (ie thoroughbred or draught) you take. Its like anything else.....price per kilo.

Usable meat per kilo .... about 90p to 110p.
 
Put it this way, I was told not so long ago that it was cheaper and made more sense to fatten up say 5 TB horses (a very known meat man will travel a good distance and collect for only £50.00 providing there is so much dead weight) and send them for meat than it was to re-school and sell them, if you think about time/grazing and other expense, which would mean you could buy your next batch and repeat the process and actually make more money doing that than dealing.

Not something I've ever considered doing by the way (just in case anyone was begining to get the wrong impression!) but it was certainly interesting, I was told how much you could get per 100KG but I can't remember now so wouldnt like to say, plus this may of changed.
 
We are all told its kinder to have a horse humanely destroyed at home in its own surroundings. This costs us a fee for the knackman and disposal,and of course,theres no meat money. However,when doing this you may be subject to insults and moralising from people. I chose to do this rather than send my mare to the abbatoir. Goodness, if I'd sent her to the slaughter -house what would they have said? Its not illegal to humanely end an animals life in a pain-free ,distress-free way,yet from reading this forum you would think it was. I wonder how many of those moralising people eat meat or have leather bridles?
 
I just got a price and if your horse is 500kg liveweight you will get £300-£350 if the passport is unchecked so the horse can go for human consumption. If the box is ticked, the price would be far less.

Collection is £60 - so meat money for a 16hh horse (600kg) is really £350-400 these days.
 
What does it say on the passport, If its "not for human consumption" can the horse still go for meat,presumably to go into cat and dog tins?
 
Nantwich is -73p per kg, so a 13.2 weighing about 300kg will be somewhere about £200.

zsmm4 - it depends whos signed the pasport, if it was a pervious owner you can sometimes get this changed i've been told.

Some meat wont be good enough to go for human consumtion anyway so will go for animal food. Wether is gos for human consumption or for animal food it shouldn't make a difference on the money you get back from it.
 
zsmm4 said:
We are all told its kinder to have a horse humanely destroyed at home in its own surroundings. This costs us a fee for the knackman and disposal,and of course,theres no meat money. However,when doing this you may be subject to insults and moralising from people. I chose to do this rather than send my mare to the abbatoir. Goodness, if I'd sent her to the slaughter -house what would they have said? Its not illegal to humanely end an animals life in a pain-free ,distress-free way,yet from reading this forum you would think it was. I wonder how many of those moralising people eat meat or have leather bridles?
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I don't eat meat or wear leather and my tack was all synthetic :D and......

The point people were making was you came across as i can't be bothered with the horse etc etc Plus you told someone to shoot a 4 year old!! that only had stable vices!!! So less of the 'feel sorry for me'
 
For your average 15.2 its about £300 currently. They won't give you anything if its signed out the food chain and may actually charge you to do it. Collection per horse is about £40, or you can take them there and they give you the full amount. It's paid on dead weight a couple of weeks after by cheque.
 
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