by law all horses have to have a passport (defra gone mad!!) in the back of the passport application the owner has to sign a declaration if the horse can go into the human food chain. Most owners say no.
There are a few horse only abbatoirs in UK. A very good humane one is based on Cheshire. Many ex race horses and horses sold through auctions end up here and go into the food chain. An average horse carcass will be worth around £500.
However, horse lovers will arrange for a 'knacker man' used to be local hunt service to humanely destroy the horse and they will take it away. The hunt kennels used to feed horse meat to the hounds and incinerate the remains. specialised knackermen take the carcass to huge incinerators around the country depending on county. Here the whole carcass is incinertaed the same way that deadstock from farm animals is dealt with. The service can cost anything up to £1000 per dead horse depending on size and location. The cost of farm animal disposal is much reduced and controlled by the RPA ( DEFRA). Hopefully we will continue to ban export of live horses for slaughter, and keep the whole process of horse slaughter/ humane destruction fully controlled in the uk.
2006-07-04 11:05:08
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answered by cowgirl 1
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Depending on where you live and how much space you have determines your answer. I just had to put my horse to sleep and we buried her. We walked her out to the low part of the pasture and we had her put to sleep. My uncle brought the back hoe out and dug the hole when he got home from work ( we kept her covered under a tarp) and he used the backhoe to gently scoot her into the hole. Then he covered the hole.
If you have a horse at a boarding facility or at a facility in the city, they can haul the body off somehwere and incinerate it. I know that either way, these pracitices sound horrible but you have to realize that the soul is gone and that all that remains is the shell.
2006-07-04 10:37:53
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answered by Anonymous
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Some do get sold to glue factories some get made into dog food. We're not really a caring nation when it's not suitable for human consumption.
My sister buried her mastiff in her garden - he was gigantic - bless him.
I'm wondering if they cremate horses - esp on farms & places like that where there is a vass amount of grass area.
Good question :-)
2006-07-04 08:57:44
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answered by MISS B.ITCH 5
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Things that are done with dead horses:
1. They are buried with tractors deep enough that coyotes, coydogs, dogs or wolves won't dig them up.
2. They are drug way back in the pasture and nature does her work.
3. The rendering works (better known as the dead truck comes and gets them.
4. You can drag them to and feed them to the pigs.
5. You can pile old tires on them, use a fair amoung of diesel fuel and burn them. (Burning takes a lot of time, but is the most sanitary and cost efficient method for those without tractors or big bank accounts.)
2006-07-04 09:53:56
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answered by j 2
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We don't eat horses in the USA, we're not continental Europeans.
We grind the flesh up into dog food ingredients and make glue out of the hooves.
If they're REALLY old or sick, I believe some are cremated.
2006-07-04 08:56:52
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answered by urbancoyote 7
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same thing. My husband has helped bury a horse. They had to use a back hoe (at least I think that what is was) to dig the hole and lower the body down in. I'm sure a horse can be cremated.
2006-07-04 08:56:39
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answered by jdc591 5
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A vet could refer you to a disposal site.
You could also contact a university which has vet courses, and offer the body for research purposes.
A local man let 2 of his horses starve to death, then he dumped the bodies in a ditch. Once I got over the shock of what had happened, I realized that they were on public property, and that nobody would mind if I took the bones for research purposes. We use the bones for hippology study and
2006-07-04 09:07:38
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answered by equestrian_2007 1
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On the ranch where I worked at for many years if it was really special or a foal they would bury it in their stall deep enough that it wouldn't effect the any horses that would later on be in that stall. But the others she would just call the render-er to have them picked up and disposed of.
2006-07-04 11:06:41
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answered by blondecowgrl18 2
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Usually they are sold to a refinery which makes products like glue from their feet. Horse hair was used for insulation in older houses. Some of their meat is used to make dog food.
2006-07-04 08:57:55
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answered by teena9 6
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If you have the land and it was a pet, you'd bury it. Otherwise you'd ring the knacker and it would go for pet food/fertiliser (they don't deal with human food); or you'd use an agricultural crematorium.
2006-07-04 11:57:07
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answered by sarah c 7
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