Talk to me about the blood bank.

Snow Falcon said:
@The Fuzzy Furry Well they do in the forest!! At the drifts the ponies are tail marked and any mane knots cut out.
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That's why I didn't specifically mention NFs 😉

However, you'll be pretty aware that hill ponies and the like - as well as soft hairy natives (paddocked, stabled etc) - would never have tails cut. Perhaps a judicious thin on odd occasion but never cut.
 
May have already been answered as just skimmed the middle part of the thread but in answer to what other uses it has, our forensics students are trained using horse blood as a model for human blood. We also add it to culture media to grow certain bacteria (sometimes use sheep blood too) for microbiology practicals/projects
 
I'd be concerned what happens when the horse gets old or no longer can give blood?
I'd be fine with the humane destruction but the thought of the horse being sent to a slaughterhouse is sn absolutely hard no.
 
Sossigpoker said:
I'd be concerned what happens when the horse gets old or no longer can give blood?
I'd be fine with the humane destruction but the thought of the horse being sent to a slaughterhouse is sn absolutely hard no.
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A slightly more logical thought process, the blood bank will have the passport of the horse. The vast majority of horses donated to the blood banks will be horses with soundness problems that have been investigated and treated. Treatment will invariably involve pain relief and other medications, therefore the horse will be signed out.
 
The Fuzzy Furry said:
I haven't yet seen anyone brandishing scissors on the fells, in the Highlands, the Welsh hills, on Shetland nor other native pony places..
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I'm sure the Carneddau ponies have their tails trimmed? I was under the impression it was partly to indicate they'd been checked over and partly to stop a big frozen snow and dirt ball forming on the bottoms of their tails
 
AdorableAlice said:
A slightly more logical thought process, the blood bank will have the passport of the horse. The vast majority of horses donated to the blood banks will be horses with soundness problems that have been investigated and treated. Treatment will invariably involve pain relief and other medications, therefore the horse will be signed out.
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The blood bank are unlikely to be giving medication to horses, because of the fuss of separate feeding, the cost of the drugs and the contamination of the blood.

Also I'm pretty sure that once a horse is signed out it can't be signed back in and would need a new passport.

But I'm also pretty sure the bllod banks will shoot on the site, not transport to Potters which is the only horse abattoir left, I believe?
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ycbm said:
The blood bank are u likely l to be giving medication to horses, because of the fuss of separate feeding, the cost of the drugs and the contamination of the blood.

Also I'm pretty sure that once a horse is signed out it can't be signed back in and would need a new passport.

But I'm also pretty sure the bllod banks will shoot on the site, not transport to Potters which is the only horse abattoir left, I believe?
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I meant the horses will have been signed out well before getting to the blood bank because they will have received various treatments and meds with previous owner. I didn't mean receive meds given at blood bank. Apologies if it didn't read as it should.
 
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