There are a lot of show breeders that don't help with the
equation more than backyard breeders. Heck the farm my Quarter colt came
from named the first baby born of the year an A name and on down the alphabet
from there to keep track of who was born when. I got my colt because they
didn't think he was "good enough" for the public to know who bred him and his
parentage. Plus he'd been severaly injured at their farm. So they
shipped him off to a sale as a grade horse. Of course they wanted $2,000
for his papers when I called and tried to get them too.
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I've been 'into' equine rescue for a couple of years, in
terms of reading the websites and seeing what is available
for adoption. My impression is that most horses going to
slaughter are not 'surplus' resulting from indiscriminate breeding, as
is the case with dogs and cats, but they are unsound, often due to hard
use or injury. The fact of the matter is that many owners cannot
afford to keep an unrideable horse around as a yard ornament. Add to
that the problem of people who cannot bear to have a horse put down, so
they send it to auction... where it gets bought by a killer buyer and ends
up in a slaughterhouse.
Horses don't have litters like cats, and not to
many people keep a stallion around, so over productions simply isn't the
big problem. If it were, there would be far more sound horses
out there for adoption. Horse racing (flat and harness) put
far more horses into the pipeline than does backyard
breeding.
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