Posted on 01/31/2008 2:23:17 PM PST by mdittmar
Yup. I made a prediction that there would be horses turned loose in the woods when folks couldn’t find a way to get rid of them. Prices for horses have plummeted the past few months, and the cost of hay, at least in my area, has gone up 30 to 50% the past year.
“Yeah. We have four.”
Amateur. LOL
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Yeah, but slaughter houses for horses were an alternative to what is beginning to happen, now. Whether the horse is put down in a field, and buried or taken to a slaughter house and utilized for dog food, the end result is the same for the horse.
The feds stuck their noses in where it didn’t belong.
No, horses aren’t starving because of increased corn production, but many farmers plowed their hay fields under to plant corn, and the price of hay went up considerably.
I remember farmers saying last year, “I don’t know where you’re going to get hay next year. I’m gonna plant corn/beans. Hay is simply not profitable.”
And this year, hay is up 50 percent.
I doubt if they are doing that well on corn or beans.
Where has hay increased in price solely due to increased corn production?
Yeah. I know. I watched for a while as some neighbors of ours gradually collected horses until now they have about four. I watched for a couple of years as the horses’ ribs began to show and the trees in their sparse pasture lot got the bark eaten off them by desperate horses. I watched and wondered, “what can I do?” Some other neighbors reported them to the S.P.C.A., but nothing changed. I kept thinking, “could I get a bale of hay delivered?” or “could I toss some hay across the fence?” realizing that neither could be done anonymously or without these neighbors (notorious for not particularly trusting their neighbors) finding out and possibly accusing me of “trying to poison their horses”.
So, one day I was at a coop in town when I saw that horse feed came in great big bags - Equilite in bags is a reasonably priced, complete food - and I started a few months ago, at first I bought and hauled a bag every week for one month and then dumped the bag at their mailbox where they could choose to feed it or not, after a month, I only have done it once a month. It has seemed to supplement their diets enough that, between what little pasture they have and what little the people feed them, thankfully, their ribs no longer show and they actually swish their tails happily. They don’t know and their owners don’t know who is supplementing their meager diet. So, it was either light a candle or curse the darkness.
Depends on where you live. Cost of diesel has also driven up costs. Drought definitely has an impact. Less hay being grown due to more corn being grown also cause hay prices to rise. It’s supply and demand.
It seems that you will, after all, accept government doing your ‘dirty work’ for you if it’s an activity of which you approve. Reinforced, of course, with positive terms (such as ‘proper treatment’) describing those same activities, and with negative terms (such as ‘banning’ or ‘dirty work’) describing activities of which you do not approve. All of us (Liberal, Libertarian, and Conservative, alike) use the same words because we share a common language. The issue is whether language is used to persuade, or as a flamethrower to compel (let’s leave the flamethrower to Liberals).
”If you equate the two you are far off base.
Both involve the government doing our ‘dirty work’ for us. The rest is a matter of philosophical differences - what should be done, what should not be done, and how it is to done - to be hashed out by discussion. Persuasion is a better tool for that purpose than flamethrowers.
”Unlike others, I’m not seeking to use government force to ban speech or humane treatment.”
Whom, amongst those of us in this present discussion, is proposing such a thing? By now I suspect you know that no one is.
”Her position is the same as banning abortion while disallowing adoption.”
Now, that’s about the most intelligent thing you’ve said so far, and much more deserving of a considered response than “Wow, how generous!”
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