--- In [email protected], Ingvar Ragnarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> 
> horses that are put in the slaughter house is
> mostly injured or  crazy one´s as I would defined
> it could have bucking problems (most likely) 

What kind of bucking problem? Really horses don't usually want to 
buck, they do it as some kind of reaction to either something 
scaring them or pain. What if they are bucking because the saddle is 
too tight and it hurts? and nobody figures this out. That would be 
too bad. My Icelandic did buck with a trainer who was being too 
hard, trying to make him do a lateral gait when it's not natural for 
him. (I did see him do a foxtrot in the pasture today though) So is 
that a bucking problem? He couldn't even buck *that* hard, and he 
really isn't the kind to buck over nothing. 

> Isn´t pretty much the same in the US you also
> have a hole lot of horses going to slaughter
> every year and foals also I think the foals are
> mostly from the PMU business ...........
> 

I think it does happen, it varies state to state. I believe in 
California you cannot slaughter horses, I read in the paper that 
Kentucky is looking to outlaw horse slaughter, including shipping 
horses to other states for slaughter. They thought that it looks bad 
for because we have such a huge horse industry here.

Kim

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