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Post by pinkpony on Jan 1, 2009 21:45:43 GMT 1
Sadly it is the "meatman's" threat hanging over the French ones. If the same threat hung over the UK ones more folk would resuce them. It's a very good cynical marketing ploy. Yes agree, but after the amersham case.... Let us know how things go on Nav.
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Post by navaho on Jan 1, 2009 21:49:32 GMT 1
Melissa, im sorry i dont know where she bought him from, all i know is it was from a website, more than that i couldnt tell you. I do know there were 2 of them & i think one went to Oxford i think, Strangely enough both animals are suffering with really really bad mud fever on both their left hind legs.....do you know if they tether them this way? I wouldnt have thought they would but it seems so strange both animals suffering on exactly the same legs, apparently the vet who saw the one in Oxford advised it was PTS because of the severity of the damage. It does make me worry that maybe people are abusing the fact that there are people out there willing to rehome these horses & jumping on the bandwagon to off load any old thing regarless of its condition, it must have been so painfull for both these horses to travel the distance they both did, but then again saying that i guess if they went for meat no one would have given a monkeys about their condition either......no win situation i guess.
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Post by navaho on Jan 1, 2009 21:54:12 GMT 1
Will keep you all posted on this Pinkpony, as i would love it to have a happy outcome....my OH would love it to have a happy outcome to....in my fields....aaaaargh no!! I do have some pics of him on my phone & will try & post them on here when i get a chance.
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Post by melissa on Jan 1, 2009 22:00:16 GMT 1
Sounds like you should offer to take him off her hands!!! I can probably guess the website. That is odd re the mud fever My French rescue has a big scar on one of his hind legs (trying to picture which one ) where he was obviously tethered very tightly and nothing on the other.
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Post by navaho on Jan 1, 2009 22:20:55 GMT 1
Im guessing then if yours was tethered on his hind legs then these both were too, & i can only guess that the combination of mudfever & tether has caused the huge infection, poor lad, i had no idea that they did tether using the legs, it was just a guess on my part when i heard the other horse had it in exactly the same place. My OH would think all his Christmas's had come at once if we had him lol, but we're not really in the position at the moment to take on another, but who knows whats round the corner. In away i do hope this home works out for him & she sees sense & stops being terrified of him, gets his nads off & starts being realistic about him, & im sure he would love to be settled somewhere. Maybe thats just wishfull thinking?
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Post by horsey123 on Jan 1, 2009 22:44:45 GMT 1
thing like this really upset me
i hate it when poeple buy a ""rescue"" but oly want to do a quick fix and then sell it on ad make a small bob
i have 8 "rescues" well horse who have been tacken out of very bad situation and still to this day i have all 8
i have had sharers to love them but i feel i need to give these horses a home for life they have already bin thru so much s**t with out being passed from pillow to post
and i really do hope he has gone to a really nice home poor chap
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Post by donnalex on Jan 1, 2009 22:56:24 GMT 1
Has he got lymphangitis navaho?
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Post by circusdancer on Jan 2, 2009 0:02:30 GMT 1
Very sad, what is a fate was than death, if not suffering?
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Post by melissa on Jan 2, 2009 21:33:27 GMT 1
Just spoken to Sarah Fox who has quite a few French rescues and one of her mares had terrible mud fever. The mare had to be treated with silver nitrate dressing for two weeks on the worst leg and the rest cleared up with twice daily hibiscrub and flamazine. Seems a common problem with these horses and just think how many will be transported for hundreds of miles every day to slaughter in that condition
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Post by Roz on Jan 2, 2009 22:37:08 GMT 1
Poor chap, of course another thing that really exacerbates mudfever is urine, if he's been kept on very little bedding or straw on rubber matting, when weeing, it will splash up his legs and burn the skin.
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Post by gillmcg on Jan 2, 2009 22:57:41 GMT 1
Re the mud fever, I'm not surprised. The 'fattening farm' I visited in the Loire had the heavy horses in a paddock with a shelter. The floor in the shelter was, I imagine, earth (couldn't see it) with packed straw/hay, dung, urine etc. It was at least 18 inches deep. The horses fare better in the summer as they're kept out (apart from the constant flies, no worming, no farrier care, no treatment for injuries etc) but in the winter they're kept in stalls (about 4 to a stall meant for one horse) with hay bales dropped in front of the metal fencing. All they want is the horses to put on weight as they're paid by the kilo....
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Post by donnalex on Jan 2, 2009 23:37:03 GMT 1
Re the mud fever, I'm not surprised. The 'fattening farm' I visited in the Loire had the heavy horses in a paddock with a shelter. The floor in the shelter was, I imagine, earth (couldn't see it) with packed straw/hay, dung, urine etc. It was at least 18 inches deep. The horses fare better in the summer as they're kept out (apart from the constant flies, no worming, no farrier care, no treatment for injuries etc) but in the winter they're kept in stalls (about 4 to a stall meant for one horse) with hay bales dropped in front of the metal fencing. All they want is the horses to put on weight as they're paid by the kilo.... Just the same as cows then?
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Post by melissa on Jan 2, 2009 23:47:47 GMT 1
Hmmm I can honestly say that the cows kept on my yard are treated far better than the horses that Gill is talking about.
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Post by sixfootblonde on Jan 3, 2009 0:04:24 GMT 1
Yes, our farmers cows are too.
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Post by gillmcg on Jan 3, 2009 13:08:01 GMT 1
My neighbour's meat cows are kept in better conditions too (and he's French! ). I guess you also have to take into consideration the psychology of the horse versus the cow to decide if this is a good way to keep horses - even if they are 'just' meat animals...... I know that the two big Percherons who were bought from this farm were both suffering from mud fever type problems.
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