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Comment by Liliane Jackson on April 22, 2010 at 12:53pm

We gave a home to 4 baby mustangs. They are doing great today. They are between 2-3 years old now. I will have to post some pics.

Comment by Shirley on April 16, 2010 at 12:42pm

http://wildhoofbeats.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-09-02T17%...
Wild horse round-ups and their story via photos.

Comment by P.Ann Turner on March 19, 2010 at 3:56pm

Good for you! I have never "officially" run a rescue, all the years I took horses on that nobody wanted while I was in Jamaica, including heroine and cocaine addicts, nobody ever helped me out! Of course in a 3rd world country you don't get help, so I just did what I could. Some of them were so far gone I had to put them down, their kidneys and liver were shot, but most of them recuperated incredibly well and became the greatest school horses I ever had, and were so grateful to be able to live a useful and healthy life! cheers, Ann.

Comment by F Skaggs on March 19, 2010 at 1:37pm

Hi,
I run a Horse Rescue in Alden Mi.

Comment by P.Ann Turner on March 17, 2010 at 1:09pm

Yes that's why we feed non - processed grain, at least you kind of know what you are getting! My husband used to work in a feed mill in the UK when he was at college, and the stories about what goes into animal feed is pretty horrifying! And if you ask the feed manufacturer what the source of Crude Protein and fat is, they will not tell you! It's a closely guarded secret, my husband gets upset because all the info about feed in horses is funded by the feed companies, and of course all the research is favourable to them, including the addition of Hydrogenated oils, which no horse or human can break down! I could write an epistle about this, but that can wait until I publish Anthony's notes from college, backed up by the Blacks Veterinary Dictionary published in 1957, before the commercial feeds took over and everything became about money, instead of animal health. The other problem we have is that grasses have been genetically altered for high sugar content to make cows gain weight faster and give more milk. Very few people actually grow hay for horses now with high fibre. We feed grain as it's only really the tops of grasses, and highly digestible. Not only that, I have yet to see a horse have all it's nutritional needs met by hay alone, because of poor farming which leads to poor soil, and over fertilization. You can only achieve this if you grow all your own hay, different types of grasses, and know exactly what you put on the fields, and test for nitrogen, phosphurs, calcium etc., other wise it's a guessing game. YOu can tell my husband is a farmer! I have been listening to this for years, and we have great pastures with 5 different grasses to give them variety, and we only fertilize with composted manure and apply lime to control weeds and change the Ph balance of the soil if needed, cheers, Ann. We call my husband the manure fairy - or Farmer Giles! but he does know what he's doing!

Comment by Linda Garber on March 17, 2010 at 10:16am

Ann, I agree that we need to really know what our horses are eating. The closer we try follow God's design for horses the less problems we will have. Horses are designed to graze grass, legume and forages. With the knowledge that we know have of how a horses digestive system works or more importantly, what goes wrong in the gut to make a horse "colic". The not so funny thing is that we are still doing what we have done wrong. Let's be honest, commercial animal feed is a great place for disposing of food products not fit for human consumption. Including using ground poultry feathers for protein content. We have to put quality in if we want to produce a healthy horse with quality output. And it is something we have control of, unlike genetics of an existing horse.

Comment by P.Ann Turner on March 16, 2010 at 10:52pm

Thanks Linda,

I feed an organic oats/barley mix, with salt and chopped, not ground flax, and a really high quality mineral/vitamin/amino acids and joint supplement, made with human grade quality ingredients and no sugar! My horses are fit, in good weight and happy, and I have never had founder, colic or Cushings to deal with in all the 40 years I have been with horses, only other people's horses get those things. My horses live into their 30's and I can usually keep those "hard keeping" thoroughbreds in great shape too! I am looking into launching my own herbal line of products, as I use them a lot with my horses with really good results! My husband is an old time farmer from England who went to college before all this processed stuff became available, and I am looking to copyright and publish his College notes, as it's all basically organic farming and the right way to feed farm animals including horses, before we got all fancy with all this processed foodl Thanks for the info, cheers, Ann.

Comment by Linda Garber on March 16, 2010 at 12:48pm

If you are looking for a great feed for under weight horses, please check out the web site for ThriveFeed.com. It has done the "un-herd" of for horse recovery. Thrive is not your normal horse feed. The PH is correct for horses and is utilized like grasses. It is steam extruded with the highest quality ingredients not fillers. More feed becomes horse not manure.No supplement needed and you can feed free choice if needed without risk of colic or founder.The recovery process is within weeks not months. This means the horse is quicker to get into a training program and find a good home sooner with less cost the the rescuer as well. I speak from first hand experience. Also see what the North Texas Humane Society, Hope4Horses.com, Throwawayponies.com and other rescues are saying about this amazing choice we now have for horses.

Comment by P.Ann Turner on March 15, 2010 at 4:58pm

This is very true a great concern to us all. Part of the solution would be a moratorium or controls on how many horses are bred, so we don't have such vast numbers of horses that don't have homes, and maybe now cannot be slaughtered either! cheers, Ann.

Comment by Shelley CHDC on March 15, 2010 at 12:54pm

A discussion paper has been posted on the CHDC website:
What the New European Union Requirements for Imported Equine Meat Will Mean to North America’s Horse Industry (posted on the CHDC website):

http://www.defendhorsescanada.org/pdf/finaldisc100314.pdf

This paper discusses Canada’s planned compliance with the new European Commission (EC) measures for countries that export equine meat to Europe, and the impact they will have on North America’s horses. While the new rules are a positive step towards a necessary identification system for our horses, there are several major deficiencies with the measures Canada plans to implement. Most notably, there are several medications not permitted for equines slaughtered for food, including Phenylbutazone or “Bute” – the horse industry’s most widely used analgesic and anti-inflammatory medication. So commonly used, this drug alone precludes virtually all race and professional sport horses, as well as most pleasure horses, from entering the human food chain. Canada’s $90 million horsemeat and live slaughter horse industry is at a turning point. The 2009 announcement from the EC concerning drug residues in slaughter horses (details below) will have an immediate impact on all aspects of the horse industry when it goes into effect at the end of July. It has been a long-term concern for horse welfare proponents, since horses ingest and are administered veterinary medical agents not intended for food animals, that horsemeat is unsafe for human consumption. For this reason, these new EC regulations are seen as beneficial concerning protection of the human food chain. However, these new rules only address the concerns of the consumer, and don’t take the welfare of the horses affected into account. This paper will discuss the new regulations, as well as address the concerns of the horse welfare community related to the required quarantine of horses and the withdrawal of veterinary medical products for horses destined for slaughter. We will also discuss the obvious deficiencies and likely conditions that will develop as this new program evolves.

For the horses,

Canadian Horse Defence Coalition

info@defendhorsescanada.org

www.defendhorsescanada.org

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