How much do people get by sending a horse to a slaughter house anyways!?

Question

Not that I'd EVER do that.

It just makes me mad when people do it just to get money.

Theres other ways to get money, like getting a job!

Rather than waiting for a good horse to sell and be killed.

Answer 1

Horses go to slaughter for different reasons. Some have diseases and have to be put down and the owner sells it to slaughter so they dont have to take a loss on it. Others are lame or have behavioral problems and cant be corrected or have hurt people who try to correct them.

Down here horses usually sell for 100-300 dollars when they go to slaughter. They are generally sold by the pound. It is my understanding that the horse slaughter houses in the US have been shut down. I understand that people love horses and dont want to see them killed but since the ban on killing, the market is flooded with horses and this drives the price down which is a bad thing for breeders and buyers alike. While it makes horses cheaper and more affordable it also puts alot of unsafe horses out there that should not be for sale.

Answer 2

horse meat is like any other commodity - the price is per the pound and fluctuates depending on demand and supply.  Similarly, beef, sheep and chicken meat fluctuates in prices as well.

Answer 3

its by the pound.

yuk

Answer 4

Prior to the slaughter ban, you got about $1 a pound, or $1,000 for a full size horse.  If you euthanized it and had to have it removed, it would cost almost $500 - that's a minimum $1500 difference.

I've never sent one, but I've bought two.

Now, they go for a couple hundred bucks.  

People who send their horses to slaughter often have good reasons, and it is unfair to judge them without knowing.

Answer 5

I think I saw on Fugly a week or so ago that its around $325.

I might be wrong though so don't quote me.

Answer 6

I would never do that to a horse either!

But it depends on how much fat that the horse has on it's body.

Answer 7

yeah i agree with you 2!! when my horse got sick some jerk told my mom to take it to the slaughter house cuz we could get $400 for her,but we would never do that!!

Answer 8

We don't get anything for selling our horses to individuals anymore.  Most horses that went to slaughter had something wrong with them other then an uncaring owner.

I had sold a few to the killers in the past that were completely dangerous and needed to be out of the market.

Now there is no  kill market in the US.

And to ship to Mexico or Canadian plants is too cost prohibitive for most that sold to the slaughter houses in teh past.

Good quality trained animals with show records are selling for less the $2000 to any tom d**k and harry that wants one.....  just watch the abuse and abandoment go up this winter when hay is scarace and these people have no idea how, where or the money to get quality hay.

Answer 9

i dont no but it makes me sick and i hope they go to h**l!

Answer 10

they usualy get up to 500 hundred. I agree with you.

Answer 11

wow.... hippies. slaughter is a nessecary evil, horse market is already suffering cuz of you guys. those of us who make a living off of horses are now getting screwed, now i have NEVER sent a horse to slaughter, but i know some people do, do i loose sleep over it, no thats life. most horses are so old or sick or have a problem that nobody is going to want to deal with them, and so they will go somewhere where they'll be miserable and in pain, or to an owner without the money to have them helped by a vet. so the horse will suffer, of be put down and slaughtered. without slaughter the horse market goes down every year.

SOOOOO thanks to all of you city people with horse hobbies or no horses and no idea what slaughet does for the market. thank you for making things even harder on the rest of us.

Answer 12

I agree. You dont get that much and you just wasted a precious horses life! How greedy is that?

Answer 13

It is a by the pound sale.  I have seen yearlings go for as little as $50.  It is a sad sad thing.  If you love horses it is hard to go to the auctions because so many are going.  If you are looking to save a horse now is the time you can get great horses some with papers for very little $.

Answer 14

Well the only time I have ever heard of anyone doing that was with a horse that was going to be put down. Due to the issues concerning the removla of dead horses (Certianly over here you can't bury them) it makes sense. However it doesn't make any sense to do that with a healthy horse.