|
|
 Expert
Posts: 1525
  
| They try to get them sold to good homes before putting them on the trucks. These horses, ponies, donkeys and mules will ship out on the 12th at noon. A lot of them....most of them are broke...some papered pretty nice.
https://www.facebook.com/bastroplouisianakillpen/?fref=ts |
|
| |
|
 Expert
Posts: 2128
 
| Its a shame to see so many ponies and good broke horses on there. |
|
| |
|
 Expert
Posts: 1210
Location: Kansas | Seeing those cute yearlings on there really pulls at my heart strings. |
|
| |
|
 Expert
Posts: 3815
Location: The best kept secret in TX | On a side note completely unrelated to the bastrop link: I wish people would just buy the horses straight from the sale barns instead of the kill buyers.
Kill buyers mark them up and use your money to buy more kill horses... 
BUT HEY! At least they're going to homes instead of South!! 
ETA: The mini sorrel pony is adorable LOL
Edited by IRunOnFaith 2015-11-09 3:48 PM
|
|
| |
|
Extreme Veteran
Posts: 464
| Not sure how their system works is it a kill buyer trying to sell a horse to an individual, rather than send it to old Mexico? I saw somewhere on their Facebook page you could send them money for feed/hay, so they could keep the horses a little while longer and not send them right away. I don't doubt some decent horses come through that place, it just seems a little odd. |
|
| |
|
  Keeper of the King Snake
Posts: 7616
Location: Dubach, LA |  |
|
| |
|
Expert
Posts: 1255
| I've been watching that on Facebook it's so sad. |
|
| |
|
 My Heart Be Happy
Posts: 9159
Location: Arkansas | I can't even look---knowing they're only 45 minutes from me and I can't save them all breaks my heart. . . |
|
| |
|
"Heck's Coming With Me"
Posts: 10794
Location: Kansas | This world is so screwed up..................... |
|
| |
|
 Undercover Amish Mafia Member
Posts: 9991
Location: Kansas | IRunOnFaith - 2015-11-09 3:39 PM On a side note completely unrelated to the bastrop link: I wish people would just buy the horses straight from the sale barns instead of the kill buyers.
Kill buyers mark them up and use your money to buy more kill horses...
BUT HEY! At least they're going to homes instead of South!!
ETA: The mini sorrel pony is adorable LOL
Yep, and most of the horses listed aren't even heading to slaughter....they just want people to buy them at 3-10x the purchase amount. |
|
| |
|
Expert
Posts: 3815
Location: The best kept secret in TX | hoofs_in_motion - 2015-11-10 12:26 PM IRunOnFaith - 2015-11-09 3:39 PM On a side note completely unrelated to the bastrop link: I wish people would just buy the horses straight from the sale barns instead of the kill buyers.
Kill buyers mark them up and use your money to buy more kill horses...
BUT HEY! At least they're going to homes instead of South!!
ETA: The mini sorrel pony is adorable LOL
EXACTLY!!!
I know at the sale barn closest to me you can pick up a mini pony for around $50, a stud goes for $25-$75 depending on age, and saddle horses (Broke horses) go for around $150-$400 with mares bringin the most since they can be bred. Papered horses bring $450-$650 and MANY people around here buy up these guys, say they're going to slaughter if they aren't bought and mark them way up. They advertise them as "rescues" and people buy into it... The people who buy the horses straight from the sale to re-sell usually keep them for about a month until the next sale. What doesn't sell goes back through the lot and if it's not equal to or more than what they originally paid, they pull them and take them back home and tell people the horse is "URGENT" or "SAVE NOW" or "LAST CHANCE".... It's all a cycle. Don't get me wrong I'm glad the horses aren't going straight down south but at the same time If people would buy directly from the sale barn instead of middle men or kill buyers the prices would probably go up at the sale itself. Meaning meat buyers couldn't buy as many and middle men couldn't buy as many either.... Just my thought and two cents..  |
|
| |
|
 No Tune in a Bucket
Posts: 2935
Location: Texas | IRunOnFaith - 2015-11-10 2:41 PM hoofs_in_motion - 2015-11-10 12:26 PM IRunOnFaith - 2015-11-09 3:39 PM On a side note completely unrelated to the bastrop link: I wish people would just buy the horses straight from the sale barns instead of the kill buyers.
Kill buyers mark them up and use your money to buy more kill horses...
BUT HEY! At least they're going to homes instead of South!!
ETA: The mini sorrel pony is adorable LOL
I don't have any experience with the Bastrop LA Kill Pen but with another Kill Pen in Pitkin, LA. It is on Facebook as Double S Killpen Horses (I think). They make a video of the riding horses and give whatever info they have. The only advantage of buying from them instead of a sale barn is that they are not drugged when they make the video to be able to know their true temperment and if they are cripple. They don't try to sell the crazy ones. They also offer to exchange the horse if it just doesn't work out. I have seen some pretty amazing transformations. |
|
| |
|
 Expert
Posts: 4121
Location: SE Louisiana | Where is the meat going? I thought the European market was closed to meat from here that didn't have a record of every drug ever used. |
|
| |
|
 Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
Posts: 16390
Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Man, if you have the sanity to listen to Hal and Bozo try to market these horses at the Bastrop Kill Pen, you are tougher than me. They are the definition of horse traders and do post lame horses ALL the time....while riding them and not saying a word about it. I really feel sorry for the horses and would save them all if I could, but... |
|
| |
Folks on-line