So amazing that there are still people , who care about animals. It's beautiful what this woman does for the horses! I wish I lived near this place , so I could help her.
It's incredible, how a video can make you lose all hope in humankind and rekindle it at the same time. What this woman and her helpers do is simply amazing, thank you, for being a (sadly rare) ray of light in this miserable world!
I've read many of the comments from people who say they would like to volunteer, but don't know how to go about it. I found a facility near where I live simply by searching the internet. They rescue ponies and miniatures from the auctions. I go there one day a week to clean paddocks (shovel poop!), fill water buckets, groom and give them the love they desperately need. In return they give me peace of mind and heart. I live in Massachusetts, and I'm sure there are many places in most states. You will be greatly rewarded! 💜
You are an angel on earth for these magnificent animals. I aplause you and your volunteers for all you do. I wish I lived close to you because I would volunteer. I will send a donation to last chance corral and urge others to do the same for these beautiful creatures God has made for us.
It hS ALWAYS been my passion to do what YOU DO!!! I would love to help!!!! I just don't QUITE know how to go about getting started!!! God bless you for all that you do for these babies!!!! Becky
Thank you I have a nurse mare foal who did not receive as good of care in his early days. I adopted him at 4 months he is now 4 years and beautiful, smart, and loving. He has a book out called Dinky: The Nurse Mare's Foal. You do a wonderful job and I will be donating.
You can get that mare whos matural instinct is that strong she would accept an orphan foal and bag up (produce milk) for the foal too. Good job on what you guys do - I'd volunteer for you but I live in New Zealand so geographically not possible BUUUTT saying that the exposure that you have now via Facebook I hope more people will volunteer and donate to you! The best of luck to you and all the horses under your care
I just adopted a foal from LCC yesterday, and the facility is wonderful. Clean, safe, and the foals are getting top notch care. Victoria is a really neat lady, and certainly what she is doing is commendable!
God Bless all who are involved in this organization and Victoria Goss especially. I have a 3yr old OTTB with ulcers and know firsthand the evils of racing and what's left after the horses have been exploited for all their worth. I wish they would just shut it down and be done with it.
The laws should be changed to force the thorough bred breeders have to pay a fee to take them, or pay a higher fine for cruelty charges or something.....come on.
i wanna be one of those volunteers but i don't now where to start. i love horses and it makes me cry that these horses( actualy all) are forced to to somnething they don't want to. horses have lives too!
If you were in NY I would be there everyday, not to be paid, but just for the animals. I'd work there everyday for free, I cant tell you how happy I am to see one of the nicest barns for last chance horses. Its so sad to see horses end up just being dumped. That's why we adopt 95% of the time.
I did not know that this industry existed. how very sad for both mother and foal . separating a baby from its mother is just evil. Thank you thank you for saving the foals that you can't you God bless you......
The standard practices with animals is cruel beyond belief. People have hardened their hearts in a manner that is terrible for the human race as well as the animals. We need to consider the needs in our animals when we set up a system as well as the desires of people. Karma is real and will come back on those who are cruel.
Why is it cruel ? Dairy cows have a calf to be milked Elizabeth Brandon do you drink milk ? There's no harm to horses or cattle I think you all better read up on this first .It sounds like you judge a book by it's cover first before reading it !!!!!!
I want to visit and volunteer! too bad It's like 3+ hours from my house. However, I'll add you into one of my future videos that I'm making that will be showing some of my favorite horse youtubers. I don't have that many subscribers, but at least every little bit counts.
Wouldn't it be something if one of those discarded foals turned out to be a fantastic race horse? And oh my God, give me food, clothing and shelter, maybe a horse of my own, and I'd work for no pay on one of these farms if the people running them would be willing to show me the ropes and teach me how to care for horses.
I would love to see these foals growing up. It's great that they do this because these foal are just being truned into dog food just for profit. Each one of them should have a chance to beloved and fine a home if possible. But I don't get the thing about having to have education on shoveling pop!
hi my name is cy i love horses and im 12 and i how you guys do this stuff and if i lived near you i would love to come and help because i love horses to much to let them die
Nurse mares are generally only used in extreme cases, where the dam has died or has become so ill that her foal must be taken away. We DO NOT take the foals away from their dams JUST BECAUSE. It is better for the baby to be raised by a mare, babies raised on bottles by people often lose their respect for people and become dangerous unless raised strictly, which does not mean abusively. Most thoroughbred farms can't afford nurse mares and will teach the foal to drink a milk replacer from a bucket and pair them with a pony or barren mare that can be trusted to accept it. The contracts with the supplier of the nurse mare demands that the mare be returned in foal unless the farm is willing to purchase her and many often do, a mare that accepts an orphan foal is rare and to be cherished like gold. The foals born to those nurse mares that are returned are often by good stallions and have all the ability to become excellent riding horses. Don't condemn the thoroughbred industry for creating a product we would rather not need, we merely take advantage of a product that would exist anyway. I've used a nurse mare once in twenty years and the farm chose to keep her rather than send her back. Prior to that farm I worked on a farm where we had two mares that could be trusted to accept an orphan even when they already had a foal at side, in fact one of those mares is the grey in my profile picture. We had to breed those mares early every year so that we could wean their foals first or else they would let any foal nurse off them. If we couldn't get them in foal before March then they took a year off and we generally only breed a mare two years in three anyway. More than that and you start having fertility issues, foaling complications and sickly foals which is not so good when you want a healthy potential racehorse and a healthy mom to raise it. Despite what people say we love our horses just as much, if not more because we are with them every day rather than just weekends. It doesn't matter that we don't own them, they are still our girls, our babies and we fuss and love on them every chance we get.
***** So you witnessed how many bad apples in that barn? Sorry, but the thoroughbred industry is about as close knit as it gets, everyone knows what is going on in everyone else's barns. We know who the bad apples are, we knew it long before you ever sussed it for yourself. Here's a real shocker, there are just as many bad apples hidden in the hunter show arena, or the western pleasure community, they exist everywhere and maybe if more people spoke up about what they saw from those bad apples, maybe if laws were harsher in dealing with the rule breakers it would be less of an issue. But the unilateral ranting done by those with "the best interest" of the animals in mind sours the community in general to the message. When 90+% treat their animals well, trying to get them shut down because a horse scores a 4 on the BCS without knowing the reason the horse is skinny. Having witnessed a humane case get thrown out because the HSUS officer and their in-pocket vet lied about how bad conditions were makes me leery of people that advocate for the animal, and before you ask, the conditions at that barn were bad, I worked there and was the one to turn them in, it was heart breaking to watch a man I KNEW had killed horses get away with it because of that BS. What makes it worse is that I know that the man in that case still has access to horses. Had we been allowed to deal with him, without the intervention of others then he would have gone to court, he would have suffered some consequence besides having to move to another state. I have worked for several farms, for many years and have friends at farms all over the tri-state area, they have friends ranging even farther afield and like any horse people, we talk, we share info. To get to my point is that when I say my farm, I mean the vast majority of farms; most thoroughbred farms, despite what you hear, are struggling to stay afloat, there isn't spare cash floating around to pay for the nurse mare when you're struggling to pay the bills. It is far easier to raise the foal on a bucket and use a gelding or barren mare to socialize them. I've known probably around one hundred bucket raise babies in my time, I've only once used a nurse mare, not by choice btw, but that owner had cash to burn and didn't consult before leasing the mare, and I will say again, we ended up purchasing her outright because a mare who will accept an orphan foal is worth her weight in gold. I could point out that the vast majority of nurse mares that I know of end up in the quarter horse industry. Embryo transfer so that those quality mares don't have to show while pregnant, something the Jockey Club doesn't allow. The only time nurse mares are used for thoroughbreds are when it's life or death.
+aj gensel I find it very sad that you consider living beings a "product". Also your experience is not jow the entire world is. Did you not see all of those abandoned foals in the video?
Way2Spirited The fact of the matter is that the thoroughbred industry treats the foals produced as products. It's an industry that earns over 7 billion dollars a year. Does that mean, we the everyday workers who care for and raise these foals see them as "products"? No, we refer to them as our "kids". The "product" I referred to above was the nurse mares, not their foals, who are often by excellent stallions and can be wonderful riding or show horses so long as their owners aren't absorbed in a piece of paper claiming they are pure bred. As to my experience, in twenty years, and on three separate farms that averaged 100 head or more herds, since I am constantly in communication with other farms, local and not so much, with similar herd sizes and spend at least an hour a day scouring the Blood Horse, the horse racing authority publication, with my AS and BS in Equine Industries from a college larger than some cities, I can comfortably say that I can count the number of times I've known nurse mares to be used is less than the fingers on one hand. You see a lot of foals in this video, I see less than a one year crop of weanlings for any of the farms I've worked for. Spread out between all the thoroughbred farms through the United States, the number above is a rather low statistic. I went to school with a girl who now works on a Quarter Horse farm in Colorado who produce twice this number of excess foals every year because they practice embryo flushing. This is the result of allowing artificial insemination, embryo implantation and cloning, all of which the Jockey Club strictly forbids.
I find it so weird that the tb racing world would do this you know, you would think that if they have a foal of value that they would want it to nurse off of its champion mother instead of some other pasture mare, as well as the mare excepting the new baby as her own once her own is taken away... tbs are always bred live cover like you think they could just have someone else in the breeding shed hold the colt off to the side instead of taking these kinds of measures. very sad
+almika360 They want to re-breed that champion / bloodline mare and get another foal. The milk of a non-champion is just as nutritious I guess. I don't think the mares go into season when they're still nursing a foal.
yes I know they want to re breed the mare and no mares can be rebred when theyre nursing you don't have to take the foal away to re breed the mare, What I'm referring to is that studies have shown using surrogate mares to hold embryos of another mare show that the surrogate mother does have an affect on the embryo inside her even though its not hers, so what I'm saying is that why wouldn't they want the champion mare to feed her foal with her champion mare milk since not every mare would have the same milk, since not all mares will pass the same amount of nutrients through their milk as the next mare..... etc etc
Bravo For What You Do. Yes the Ponies Need love To Grow into Respectfull Animals. Sad the Funding is Scarce, A Suggestion = Advertise In a Local city For an adopt a Pony Program For City people Stuck in the Boring city That would love To be In the Country Helping These Animals . I'm Far away In Minnesota & Would love a Farm to Visit To Volunteer Some what But With Health issues My help Would be Limited... I Love animals More Than Cities Full Of people, too.
I'm not sure how to reach out, but I'm born and raised on a farm (20 yrs old now) and have lots of experience with race horses and breeding (tho not as harsh and inhumane as described here). I would love to volunteer, but live in Europe. I'm feeling more and more hopeless as I'm writing this, but I want to help so badly.
Qualifications to shovel shit, did I hear that right.. That's why help is so hard to find. I'm not currently employed and would LOVE to work but if a facility legitimately requires some kind of schooling or qualifications to clean up SHIT than I'd blow right by them too.
bananaPLEASE Unforunately that's how a LOT of jobs are nowadays. For the most grunt work available I've had them say I needed at least 2 years of college in that category and I'm just thinking SAY WHAT?
The fact you said that shows why you're not ready to work in a horse barn.They need EXPERIENCE and general horse knowledge... not a degree in "poop shoveling". She is busy and doesn't have time to train you so she needs people with horse sense. A lot of accidents can happen and be caused by inexperienced people around horses who BTW usually weigh over half a ton, ie someone could go into a stall with a "crowder" horse and be crushed against the stall wall - rare but it can happen. More common things are caused by people that are loud and not calm and gentle around the horses which can spook them and cause them to accidentally hurt themselves or the person. Many non horse sense people will walk behind a horse and slap their butt or spook them and get kicked. This is beside all of the things you could accidentally do to make a horse ill or injured. These are rescue horses and some may have some issues from being miss treated. If you're mucking out stalls at a horse barn you WILL be around horses. Good luck in your fture endeavors. Peace
If i lived closer i'd love to be a volenteer O.o i freaking have the expersiance and eductian... but i live in hollands which sucks if i watch these type of video's.
It is so unbelievably arrogant how some humans feel that we are so much better that we can treat living things as if they are next to nothing. To me humans who are responsible for creating these orphans are less than these poor babies. They are the lowest of life forms.
I'm not sure I understand? I understand your goal and you are a miracle for those foals. But they where "created" so their mother would produce milk for a thoroughbread horse. But why tho those thoroughbread need another mother? Is it because the thoroughbread mother cant have a break of racing to raise her foal so as soon as the TB foal is born its taken away and given to a milking mother? I knew humans where cruel but that much?... Horses are not machines and shouldnt be treated that way "When its broken you get another one" that mentality enrage me Thank you for caring for those foals
The mares that they breed aren't even used for racing, they just come from good genetic racing stock. If a horse is allowed to raise a foal naturally and entirely, it's about a 2-3 year process before she is ready to breed again when her foal becomes independent. If the mare is valuable enough, they'll take her foal away early so that she'll go into heat again and be able to have a foal every year.
how long do these foals stay here? and do they get interaction with older horses? I think it's good for you to take them in but the best thing for these foals is to have good "horse" development, otherwise your doing them no good.
Are you seriously stating they should be killed? Donate a Horse and money do not say they are doing them no good. They are trying to save lives. Offer help not criticism that they accomplish nothing. Shame on you for your lack of respect for humans doing their best for over 25 years with only a mortality rate at 3.5-4%. God bless you for devoting your life to rescue foals produced to create milk for race horses. I hate that industry. I Adopted an abused ex-racehorse who would only allow me near him. Dentara was my dream horse who was about to be killed. He gave me far more than I ever gave him. The laws must change to force these wealthy breeders to care for these foals in rescues. There is little to no responsability towards the animals mankind creates or buys and feels it is acceptable to leave these animals to die. How dispicable Humans have become.
Well its a good thing there are people out there like you to take on a horse who's had little hope in this world for him. To see these foals without any "horse" leadership its easy to see where their future goes. like I said, its great for these people to have such an amazing kind of rescue, its a lot of work and money. Watch the movie buck and tell me how that poor stallion was raised the right way instead of easily blaming it on oxygen deprivation. I would never in my life promote putting in a horse down, and for someone to tell me that I am really pisses me off as I have had to sit and watch a horse be put down due to an owners lack of knowledge. To avoid and bad behaviors from these foals in the future is to simply hire an older gelding or willing mare to teach them some manners that would be other wise impossible to do with that many foals and that small amount of volunteers. My suggestion was to help the foals, not get rid of them.
ive tried to volunteer around the equine and canine shelters here but they want nothing to do with me unless i donate money first :/ seems ridiculous to me. i understand they need the money but I want to help horses without monitary involvment since i dont have much to give when it comes to $. I have enough experience to train and gentle them (instead of them just being pasture pets in a foster home until they are adopted) but still my help is refused :/
I would love to help, but Iam not english and my country is far away from english countrys. I love horses but I don't have money to give them and I would like to help them in the stable but or countrys are far away from each other I believe. :c I have space for horses so I could adopt some, but we are far away from each other. :/
And also you give your horses food everyday! But what about the other horses or ponies they don't you just want them to sufer because you just don't care about peoples animals? what if one of your horses died how would you feel?
+caitlyn harbin sometimes people cant take any more horses I would know because my family rescues horses and I have participated in this for three years now since I was nine I have reported people to the aspca and they have don nothing about it and my family wouldn't take them because we didn't have room for more so the man ended up giving them to me and we had to make room but sometimes you don't have enough room and you cant take them I may only be twelve but id like to see you rehabilitate two very under weight horses while having to do school and other activites
+caitlyn harbin Horses cost alot of money to take care off so... do you own a horse? if you don't. you have no right to say this, also they are already doing something amazing
Oh darlin ... Your the mean one for not understanding with how many horses she has it costs thousands to feed, vet, and keep her business running I only have 2 horses and know how hard it is to keep up with the bills so until you have your own horses and understand just how expensive it can be its unfair for you to judge her like that when she busts her back to save as many lives as possible!
OMG I knew I didn't like the horse racing industry but I had no idea it was so vile, abhorrent and disgusting. It needs to stop. I have never liked it because they race the horses too young, too hard and too many end up at the slaughter house. I would like to know in a ten year time span how many race horses were born and what percentage lived to five years of ag? The Horse Racing industry needs to brought down.
So amazing that there are still people , who care about animals. It's beautiful what this woman does for the horses! I wish I lived near this place , so I could help her.
It's incredible, how a video can make you lose all hope in humankind and rekindle it at the same time. What this woman and her helpers do is simply amazing, thank you, for being a (sadly rare) ray of light in this miserable world!
Thank you for doing this! If I could I would help but I csnnot but God Bless You for helping these horses
I wish I lived near this place because I would so work there, I love horses.
I would volunteer for this too
ditto..
I've read many of the comments from people who say they would like to volunteer, but don't know how to go about it. I found a facility near where I live simply by searching the internet. They rescue ponies and miniatures from the auctions. I go there one day a week to clean paddocks (shovel poop!), fill water buckets, groom and give them the love they desperately need. In return they give me peace of mind and heart. I live in Massachusetts, and I'm sure there are many places in most states. You will be greatly rewarded! 💜
Bravo For You Also Janet
God Bless this lady and Last Chance Corral. Lord meet her and their needs. Thank you Jesus.
You are an angel on earth for these magnificent animals. I aplause you and your volunteers for all you do. I wish I lived close to you because I would volunteer. I will send a donation to last chance corral and urge others to do the same for these beautiful creatures God has made for us.
Wonderful woman! Thank you very much.
It hS ALWAYS been my passion to do what YOU DO!!! I would love to help!!!! I just don't QUITE know how to go about getting started!!!
God bless you for all that you do for these babies!!!!
Becky
I wish I lived in Ohio I would come everyday and help with them! I love horse!
Thank you I have a nurse mare foal who did not receive as good of care in his early days. I adopted him at 4 months he is now 4 years and beautiful, smart, and loving. He has a book out called Dinky: The Nurse Mare's Foal. You do a wonderful job and I will be donating.
I love her and what she's does it's very inspiring and I'd love to follow in her footsteps
Yes! Not to but in but I want to volunteer there!
+I Ride Shadow is this program still going? in Athens Ohio
Thank you for doing this. The thoroughbred industry hides so many ugly little secrets.
I would volunteer if I was closer.
Same here...
You can get that mare whos matural instinct is that strong she would accept an orphan foal and bag up (produce milk) for the foal too. Good job on what you guys do - I'd volunteer for you but I live in New Zealand so geographically not possible BUUUTT saying that the exposure that you have now via Facebook I hope more people will volunteer and donate to you! The best of luck to you and all the horses under your care
I really wish I was able to help out at your facility till I start up mine. I want to become an equine vet and rescue horses just like you!
I just adopted a foal from LCC yesterday, and the facility is wonderful. Clean, safe, and the foals are getting top notch care. Victoria is a really neat lady, and certainly what she is doing is commendable!
I wish I lived by them, I would LOVE to volunteer at a place like this. I have been feeding horse, mucking stalls and all that since I was a kid.
one amazing woman!
God Bless all who are involved in this organization and Victoria Goss especially. I have a 3yr old OTTB with ulcers and know firsthand the evils of racing and what's left after the horses have been exploited for all their worth. I wish they would just shut it down and be done with it.
Sue you are an angel.
Respect to this lady!
Between TBs and Premarin mares, there are entirely too many foals left defenseless. Thank you for what you do.
Cambridge RatMom You are so right, the mares are used to make Premarin....Big Pharma...they get us all.
The laws should be changed to force the thorough bred breeders have to pay a fee to take them, or pay a higher fine for cruelty charges or something.....come on.
We should spread this everywhere
i wanna be one of those volunteers but i don't now where to start. i love horses and it makes me cry that these horses( actualy all) are forced to to somnething they don't want to. horses have lives too!
Bless you this should not be allowed to happen all the rich people in the world could help but not many do too selfish I have rescued over 35 years
If I was in the same state as her, I'd help her.
If I lived in Ohio I would be volunteering everyday.
If you were in NY I would be there everyday, not to be paid, but just for the animals. I'd work there everyday for free, I cant tell you how happy I am to see one of the nicest barns for last chance horses. Its so sad to see horses end up just being dumped. That's why we adopt 95% of the time.
i would LOVE to help the foals and horses and do what ever i can but i cant because i'm to young and i don't live in Ohio.
:cries:
God Bless you.
such cute babies! i would love to come and visit but i'm in california. will send funds when able. god bless.
this is sick thank you for saving them
I Wish i lived in ohio, i would volunteer in a heartbeat.
god bless you!!!!
Now I want to go volunteer at this horse place. 0_0
I love the animals!!!
I love animals, when I move up to Ohio, I'd help u
That's it, I'm moving to Ohio, say bye, bye to Idaho, and hello Ohio!!! 🐴🐴🐴
beautiful foals :3
i wish i can be like her save horses and foal
My thoughts on this that the TB industry should help you with the costs of all these foals.
I did not know that this industry existed. how very sad for both mother and foal . separating a baby from its mother is just evil. Thank you thank you for saving the foals that you can't you God bless you......
Yes, I hope this program is still going on
Ellaina case l l lo l
i love you !!! u are amazing person and you are full of love too bad im not from america id adopt foals and help u ! :(
i really want to take care of the horse's and fowl babies
The standard practices with animals is cruel beyond belief. People have hardened their hearts in a manner that is terrible for the human race as well as the animals. We need to consider the needs in our animals when we set up a system as well as the desires of people. Karma is real and will come back on those who are cruel.
Why is it cruel ? Dairy cows have a calf to be milked Elizabeth Brandon do you drink milk ? There's no harm to horses or cattle I think you all better read up on this first .It sounds like you judge a book by it's cover first before reading it !!!!!!
I want to visit and volunteer! too bad It's like 3+ hours from my house. However, I'll add you into one of my future videos that I'm making that will be showing some of my favorite horse youtubers. I don't have that many subscribers, but at least every little bit counts.
If people would just donate $20 to this woman that could assist her in financing food for horses that need to be rescued
Good point Laura, = Viewers help With $$$
Wouldn't it be something if one of those discarded foals turned out to be a fantastic race horse?
And oh my God, give me food, clothing and shelter, maybe a horse of my own, and I'd work for no pay on one of these farms if the people running them would be willing to show me the ropes and teach me how to care for horses.
I cannot think of those poor mares forced to give birth every year of their lives.
There is no way to put an end to this shame ?
they are so cute ,can i come work with you guys i love horses :(
sooooooooooooooo cuuuuuuutttttttteeeeee
I would love to see these foals growing up. It's great that they do this because these foal are just being truned into dog food just for profit. Each one of them should have a chance to beloved and fine a home if possible. But I don't get the thing about having to have education on shoveling pop!
hi my name is cy i love horses and im 12 and i how you guys do this stuff and if i lived near you i would love to come and help because i love horses to much to let them die
tank you
I would totaly come volintere but i dont think were in the same state i love horses and want to work with them every chance i get.
that's great(:
I would volunteer but I'm to far away from where that is
Nurse mares are generally only used in extreme cases, where the dam has died or has become so ill that her foal must be taken away. We DO NOT take the foals away from their dams JUST BECAUSE. It is better for the baby to be raised by a mare, babies raised on bottles by people often lose their respect for people and become dangerous unless raised strictly, which does not mean abusively. Most thoroughbred farms can't afford nurse mares and will teach the foal to drink a milk replacer from a bucket and pair them with a pony or barren mare that can be trusted to accept it. The contracts with the supplier of the nurse mare demands that the mare be returned in foal unless the farm is willing to purchase her and many often do, a mare that accepts an orphan foal is rare and to be cherished like gold. The foals born to those nurse mares that are returned are often by good stallions and have all the ability to become excellent riding horses. Don't condemn the thoroughbred industry for creating a product we would rather not need, we merely take advantage of a product that would exist anyway. I've used a nurse mare once in twenty years and the farm chose to keep her rather than send her back. Prior to that farm I worked on a farm where we had two mares that could be trusted to accept an orphan even when they already had a foal at side, in fact one of those mares is the grey in my profile picture. We had to breed those mares early every year so that we could wean their foals first or else they would let any foal nurse off them. If we couldn't get them in foal before March then they took a year off and we generally only breed a mare two years in three anyway. More than that and you start having fertility issues, foaling complications and sickly foals which is not so good when you want a healthy potential racehorse and a healthy mom to raise it. Despite what people say we love our horses just as much, if not more because we are with them every day rather than just weekends. It doesn't matter that we don't own them, they are still our girls, our babies and we fuss and love on them every chance we get.
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So you witnessed how many bad apples in that barn? Sorry, but the thoroughbred industry is about as close knit as it gets, everyone knows what is going on in everyone else's barns. We know who the bad apples are, we knew it long before you ever sussed it for yourself. Here's a real shocker, there are just as many bad apples hidden in the hunter show arena, or the western pleasure community, they exist everywhere and maybe if more people spoke up about what they saw from those bad apples, maybe if laws were harsher in dealing with the rule breakers it would be less of an issue. But the unilateral ranting done by those with "the best interest" of the animals in mind sours the community in general to the message. When 90+% treat their animals well, trying to get them shut down because a horse scores a 4 on the BCS without knowing the reason the horse is skinny. Having witnessed a humane case get thrown out because the HSUS officer and their in-pocket vet lied about how bad conditions were makes me leery of people that advocate for the animal, and before you ask, the conditions at that barn were bad, I worked there and was the one to turn them in, it was heart breaking to watch a man I KNEW had killed horses get away with it because of that BS. What makes it worse is that I know that the man in that case still has access to horses. Had we been allowed to deal with him, without the intervention of others then he would have gone to court, he would have suffered some consequence besides having to move to another state. I have worked for several farms, for many years and have friends at farms all over the tri-state area, they have friends ranging even farther afield and like any horse people, we talk, we share info. To get to my point is that when I say my farm, I mean the vast majority of farms; most thoroughbred farms, despite what you hear, are struggling to stay afloat, there isn't spare cash floating around to pay for the nurse mare when you're struggling to pay the bills. It is far easier to raise the foal on a bucket and use a gelding or barren mare to socialize them. I've known probably around one hundred bucket raise babies in my time, I've only once used a nurse mare, not by choice btw, but that owner had cash to burn and didn't consult before leasing the mare, and I will say again, we ended up purchasing her outright because a mare who will accept an orphan foal is worth her weight in gold. I could point out that the vast majority of nurse mares that I know of end up in the quarter horse industry. Embryo transfer so that those quality mares don't have to show while pregnant, something the Jockey Club doesn't allow. The only time nurse mares are used for thoroughbreds are when it's life or death.
+aj gensel I find it very sad that you consider living beings a "product". Also your experience is not jow the entire world is. Did you not see all of those abandoned foals in the video?
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The fact of the matter is that the thoroughbred industry treats the foals produced as products. It's an industry that earns over 7 billion dollars a year. Does that mean, we the everyday workers who care for and raise these foals see them as "products"? No, we refer to them as our "kids". The "product" I referred to above was the nurse mares, not their foals, who are often by excellent stallions and can be wonderful riding or show horses so long as their owners aren't absorbed in a piece of paper claiming they are pure bred. As to my experience, in twenty years, and on three separate farms that averaged 100 head or more herds, since I am constantly in communication with other farms, local and not so much, with similar herd sizes and spend at least an hour a day scouring the Blood Horse, the horse racing authority publication, with my AS and BS in Equine Industries from a college larger than some cities, I can comfortably say that I can count the number of times I've known nurse mares to be used is less than the fingers on one hand. You see a lot of foals in this video, I see less than a one year crop of weanlings for any of the farms I've worked for. Spread out between all the thoroughbred farms through the United States, the number above is a rather low statistic. I went to school with a girl who now works on a Quarter Horse farm in Colorado who produce twice this number of excess foals every year because they practice embryo flushing. This is the result of allowing artificial insemination, embryo implantation and cloning, all of which the Jockey Club strictly forbids.
It all boils down to the greed of a very particular group of humans.
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"Believe it or not, you do need some qualifications to shovel poop." XD
I find it so weird that the tb racing world would do this you know, you would think that if they have a foal of value that they would want it to nurse off of its champion mother instead of some other pasture mare, as well as the mare excepting the new baby as her own once her own is taken away... tbs are always bred live cover like you think they could just have someone else in the breeding shed hold the colt off to the side instead of taking these kinds of measures. very sad
+almika360 They want to re-breed that champion / bloodline mare and get another foal. The milk of a non-champion is just as nutritious I guess. I don't think the mares go into season when they're still nursing a foal.
yes I know they want to re breed the mare and no mares can be rebred when theyre nursing you don't have to take the foal away to re breed the mare, What I'm referring to is that studies have shown using surrogate mares to hold embryos of another mare show that the surrogate mother does have an affect on the embryo inside her even though its not hers, so what I'm saying is that why wouldn't they want the champion mare to feed her foal with her champion mare milk since not every mare would have the same milk, since not all mares will pass the same amount of nutrients through their milk as the next mare..... etc etc
Inmates should be Voluntolds for community service hours
Bravo For What You Do. Yes the Ponies Need love To Grow into Respectfull Animals. Sad the Funding is Scarce, A Suggestion = Advertise In a Local city For an adopt a Pony Program For City people Stuck in the Boring city That would love To be In the Country Helping These Animals . I'm Far away In Minnesota & Would love a Farm to Visit To Volunteer Some what But With Health issues My help Would be Limited... I Love animals More Than Cities Full Of people, too.
i wish there would be something like this in belgium... :(:(: i wreally want to help...
Start One...
Start fundraisers.
Go to Equine societys, stables, stores, get local schools involved.
I'm not sure how to reach out, but I'm born and raised on a farm (20 yrs old now) and have lots of experience with race horses and breeding (tho not as harsh and inhumane as described here). I would love to volunteer, but live in Europe. I'm feeling more and more hopeless as I'm writing this, but I want to help so badly.
Then send them a check.
Qualifications to shovel shit, did I hear that right.. That's why help is so hard to find. I'm not currently employed and would LOVE to work but if a facility legitimately requires some kind of schooling or qualifications to clean up SHIT than I'd blow right by them too.
bananaPLEASE Unforunately that's how a LOT of jobs are nowadays. For the most grunt work available I've had them say I needed at least 2 years of college in that category and I'm just thinking SAY WHAT?
The fact you said that shows why you're not ready to work in a horse barn.They need EXPERIENCE and general horse knowledge... not a degree in "poop shoveling". She is busy and doesn't have time to train you so she needs people with horse sense. A lot of accidents can happen and be caused by inexperienced people around horses who BTW usually weigh over half a ton, ie someone could go into a stall with a "crowder" horse and be crushed against the stall wall - rare but it can happen. More common things are caused by people that are loud and not calm and gentle around the horses which can spook them and cause them to accidentally hurt themselves or the person. Many non horse sense people will walk behind a horse and slap their butt or spook them and get kicked. This is beside all of the things you could accidentally do to make a horse ill or injured. These are rescue horses and some may have some issues from being miss treated. If you're mucking out stalls at a horse barn you WILL be around horses. Good luck in your fture endeavors. Peace
I live close to Ohio! Are the horses up for adoption year round? I would love to save up for one!
Go to Last Chance Corral web site to donate online. Thank you so much!
I would help but I can't cause I would have to travel to the place every day
00:00 Cutest stampede ever!
I wish i could volunteer but i live in California
i dont live anywhere near ohio but if i did id so help u FOR FREE
Where are ya'll located I would love to come and help out
Are kids aloud to help out
If i lived closer i'd love to be a volenteer O.o i freaking have the expersiance and eductian... but i live in hollands which sucks if i watch these type of video's.
oooo cute foals
It is so unbelievably arrogant how some humans feel that we are so much better that we can treat living things as if they are next to nothing. To me humans who are responsible for creating these orphans are less than these poor babies. They are the lowest of life forms.
I'm not sure I understand? I understand your goal and you are a miracle for those foals. But they where "created" so their mother would produce milk for a thoroughbread horse. But why tho those thoroughbread need another mother? Is it because the thoroughbread mother cant have a break of racing to raise her foal so as soon as the TB foal is born its taken away and given to a milking mother? I knew humans where cruel but that much?... Horses are not machines and shouldnt be treated that way "When its broken you get another one" that mentality enrage me
Thank you for caring for those foals
The mares that they breed aren't even used for racing, they just come from good genetic racing stock. If a horse is allowed to raise a foal naturally and entirely, it's about a 2-3 year process before she is ready to breed again when her foal becomes independent. If the mare is valuable enough, they'll take her foal away early so that she'll go into heat again and be able to have a foal every year.
how long do these foals stay here? and do they get interaction with older horses? I think it's good for you to take them in but the best thing for these foals is to have good "horse" development, otherwise your doing them no good.
Are you seriously stating they should be killed? Donate a Horse and money do not say they are doing them no good. They are trying to save lives. Offer help not criticism that they accomplish nothing.
Shame on you for your lack of respect for humans doing their best for over 25 years with only a mortality rate at 3.5-4%.
God bless you for devoting your life to rescue foals produced to create milk for race horses.
I hate that industry.
I Adopted an abused ex-racehorse who would only allow me near him. Dentara was my dream horse who was about to be killed.
He gave me far more than I ever gave him.
The laws must change to force these wealthy breeders to care for these foals in rescues. There is little to no responsability towards the animals mankind creates or buys and feels it is acceptable to leave these animals to die.
How dispicable Humans have become.
Well its a good thing there are people out there like you to take on a horse who's had little hope in this world for him. To see these foals without any "horse" leadership its easy to see where their future goes. like I said, its great for these people to have such an amazing kind of rescue, its a lot of work and money. Watch the movie buck and tell me how that poor stallion was raised the right way instead of easily blaming it on oxygen deprivation. I would never in my life promote putting in a horse down, and for someone to tell me that I am really pisses me off as I have had to sit and watch a horse be put down due to an owners lack of knowledge. To avoid and bad behaviors from these foals in the future is to simply hire an older gelding or willing mare to teach them some manners that would be other wise impossible to do with that many foals and that small amount of volunteers. My suggestion was to help the foals, not get rid of them.
Are the babys for sale
ive tried to volunteer around the equine and canine shelters here but they want nothing to do with me unless i donate money first :/ seems ridiculous to me. i understand they need the money but I want to help horses without monitary involvment since i dont have much to give when it comes to $. I have enough experience to train and gentle them (instead of them just being pasture pets in a foster home until they are adopted) but still my help is refused :/
I would love to help, but Iam not english and my country is far away from english countrys. I love horses but I don't have money to give them and I would like to help them in the stable but or countrys are far away from each other I believe. :c I have space for horses so I could adopt some, but we are far away from each other. :/
Wow I didn't know that What a shame
Do the thoroughbred breeders simply let the foals starve?
I love horses I what to stop horse sloter but I'm to yunge
What qualifications are required to shovel poop?
Can I buy a horse
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do u sell horses i might adopted one
Would u like to give me one of the foal,,
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Peta says this is wrong
And also you give your horses food everyday! But what about the other horses or ponies they don't you just want them to sufer because you just don't care about peoples animals? what if one of your horses died how would you feel?
im confused by what the hell you are trying to say??
+KrymeSpree20 Evers Same here..
A horse is a the gift that keeps taking. It takes your hard earned money and turns it into horse crap for the next 25 to 30 years. No thanks.
why do you turn them down just because you have horses and they need feed more then anything you are so mean???????!!!!
+caitlyn harbin sometimes people cant take any more horses I would know because my family rescues horses and I have participated in this for three years now since I was nine I have reported people to the aspca and they have don nothing about it and my family wouldn't take them because we didn't have room for more so the man ended up giving them to me and we had to make room but sometimes you don't have enough room and you cant take them I may only be twelve but id like to see you rehabilitate two very under weight horses while having to do school and other activites
+caitlyn harbin Horses cost alot of money to take care off so... do you own a horse? if you don't. you have no right to say this, also they are already doing something amazing
she tries SOOOOOOO hard to help, she just can't take them all in
Oh darlin ... Your the mean one for not understanding with how many horses she has it costs thousands to feed, vet, and keep her business running I only have 2 horses and know how hard it is to keep up with the bills so until you have your own horses and understand just how expensive it can be its unfair for you to judge her like that when she busts her back to save as many lives as possible!
Amanda Smith i have one horse....shes SOO exspensive to take care of, shes paso fino
I won't a horse
OMG I knew I didn't like the horse racing industry but I had no idea it was so vile, abhorrent and disgusting. It needs to stop. I have never liked it because they race the horses too young, too hard and too many end up at the slaughter house. I would like to know in a ten year time span how many race horses were born and what percentage lived to five years of ag? The Horse Racing industry needs to brought down.
that sucks
Horse racing is disgusting !!