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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP have you ever had horses? Horses are very expensive to maintain. Vet costs are very high, hay, barn maintenance etc. it’s a lot of work so either you are into mucking stalls everyday, turning them out etc or you are hiring an employee. [b]When they get old you can’t ride them but it’s heartbreaking to get rid of them sending them to a slaughterhouse. [/b]

Chickens are more reasonable or maybe a few goats but horses are a huge commitment.[/quote]

WTH - that’s not what you do! You let them live out their life. Euthanize them humanely when it is time. [/quote]

Horse owner and for the record, our horse would never go to the slaughterhouse.
However, euthanizing a horse is extremely expensive.  It isn't like putting down a dog. While it isn't necessarily the vet cost, per se, it is removal of the body.  Most farms do not allow you to bury the horse on the farm (and if they do, it requires a back hoe) so you would have to pay to have the horse cremated.  It can be several thousand dollars to transport the body and perform the cremation.

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All this.

I'm from out in Western Loudoun. Even if you own the farm everyone I knew with a horse paid thousands to have the horse moved and cremated.

We buried our dogs on our farm, and even that required work and carefully picking a spot (with proper equipment) because of how hard it is to dig a deep hole with the type of land we have here...you'd hit rock before digging a hole deep enough for a horse with the land out here, even with a backhoe.  Maybe it's different in MD but in NOVA the ground turns to rock pretty fast, that's why we have quarries out here.[/quote]

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