So: if no PTS, what should we do with useless valueless horses?

Spring Feather said:
I've owned horses for over 40 years and I've dealt with many accidents and injuries (some horrific!) and I've never ever had a horse have a blood transfusion. I wonder how many people from here have actually had their horses be given blood transfusions?
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My sister did last year. Her horse was kicked in the stomach and had massive internal bleeding. He was found slumped and almost unconscious. Thankfully, after a blood transfusion he has made a complete recovery, but had to be cross tied on a drip for two weeks.
 
In most humane blood donations the blood is split into its different parts, plasma, red blood cells, platlets and things like Factor H, so I would assume it would be the same with horse donations.
 
Carefreegirl said:
I wasn't given that option but tbh I'd of still signed him over. I drive over in the summer to try and spot him on the fields. Try spotting the grey in a herd of 100..... Every grey looks the same.
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They're all businesses so I'm sure are run in whichever way best suits that particular business. Some do give the option of purchase or loan. I can imagine it would be crazy trying to find *any* individual horse in a herd of 100 lol!
 
I have researched this it on the internet now, and it is common knowledge that the horse at 15 is PTS, they are also PTS if they don't cope with the environment if you don't want it back, even previous threads on here ... Which blood bank are you going for? Maybe its a new one
 
zigzag said:
I have researched this it on the internet now, and it is common knowledge that the horse at 15 is PTS, they are also PTS if they don't cope with the environment if you don't want it back, even previous threads on here ... Which blood bank are you going for? Maybe its a new one
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Please reference the source of your 'internet research'. Zig zag, you are just spouting rumours. Those of us who have dealt with them first hand rather than just regurgitating a load of old drival from forums know you don't have a clue what you are talking about. That is the problem with forums. You don't know who you are talking to and whether they are a professional horse person with years of experience, or whether the closest they have come to a horse is My Little Pony.
 
I understand the principles of a blood bank because like us humans horse's need blood transfusion at some point. What I don't understand is some horses are bred just for blood so again its useless horses being uselss.
 
Spring Feather said:
They're all businesses so I'm sure are run in whichever way best suits that particular business. Some do give the option of purchase or loan. I can imagine it would be crazy trying to find *any* individual horse in a herd of 100 lol!
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After the third attempt I took a pair of binoculars :biggrin3:
They were near the road last year and I saw him, called and wolf whistled as that was how I always called him. He looked up, stared for a few moments then turned away as if to say sod off....

For the record zigzag he was 18 at that moment. He'll be 19 this year.
 
LaMooch said:
I understand the principles of a blood bank because like us humans horse's need blood transfusion at some point. What I don't understand is some horses are bred just for blood so again its useless horses being uselss.
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Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Horses are bred just for blood?
 
Wagtail said:
Please reference the source of your 'internet research'. Zig zag, you are just spouting rumours. Those of us who have dealt with them first hand rather than just regurgitating a load of old drival from forums know you don't have a clue what you are talking about. That is the problem with forums. You don't know who you are talking to and whether they are a professional horse person with years of experience, or whether the closest they have come to a horse is My Little Pony.
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Several threads on here for a start ( and some were at one time highly respected posters) . And I said I don't have first hand experience of them ....
 
LaMooch said:
yep my friend has a horse that was bred just for blood. Do not know if it happens anymore. Think her horse is now 7/8 years old now so quite a while ago
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Did they refer to it as a "blood horse"? That could have been a reference to it's breeding, possibly not what it was actually to be used for.
 
zigzag said:
Several threads on here for a start ( and some were at one time highly respected posters) . And I said I don't have first hand experience of them ....
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I know the threads you mean. A year ago I decided to find out for myself, first hand. They are wrong. They don't TAKE any horses in after 15 years old but they are kept for as long as they have a good quality of life.

It doesn't matter if you believe that or choose to believe the untrue rumours. The important thing is that I know the truth and I am the one sending my horse there. Also Carefree girl has jut said that she saw her horse grazing there when he was 18 years old. That was when he had been there for 8 years. Obviously somehow managed to avoid all the rampant leg breaking and neck breaking that goes on there. :wink3:
 
LaMooch said:
what do you mean by blood horse?
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I am interested that you say the horse was bred to be used "for it's blood". You could use any healthy horse for blood bank type stuff. It's quite common to hear people talk about "blood horses", which means they have a high % of TB or other "hot" breed of horse in their breeding.
 
yep he a TB. She said he was bred as a blood horse. I'm sorry if I have made a mistake I'm not knowledgeable in this field but happy and willing to learn so I am happy to be stood corrected
 
Wagtail , you must do what you feel is best for your horse as I said .
I however based on my experiance of caring for my older horses will never send any of mine to the BB.
This not based on Internet rumours or googling stuff it's based on the fact the horses do not get pain relief if they need it as they age they are not being checked as carefully as indvidually handled horse would at home .
My horses are mine that to me means they never leave my care until they are PTS ( I say PTS bacause in fifty years of horse ownership I only once found a horse dead ).
I live with chronic pain myself I am very careful not to inflict it on my horses .
Just because someone would not take the same desision as you does not they have made that desision based on faulty imformation .
They have just come to a different conculsion to you that's all.
 
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