This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 1/20/01 11:30:11 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I cannot handle going to those sales, as half the horses go to slaughter, and that only because people have NOT taken care of them, or because they breed w/o purpose and so the result is like a bunch of yearlings etc with nowhere to go. Probably a few of the Belgians that came thru are out of peelines(sp?) Sorry, just had to steam off here. GRRRRRRRRRRRR Janne in ND >> Otherwise known as Premerin Lines. ( They make a hormone replacment for menopase age women out of mare urine, and the drafts are bigger, thus more pee, and tend to comply with standing in tie stalls, catherized for months. ) Yes, one of the major player in pee ranching is in the Dakotas. The other biggies are mostly in Canada. My rancher friend, Jack, in Sask. Canada, see's 100's of Draft and Draft crosses run through the spring auctions each week. All foals, and they sell for 50.00 to the meat guy. A result of keeping the Premerin mares, bred, thus making the hormone thats needed. The older ones get more, by the pound. All sent to the canners for the Europeian markets and Japan, for consumption. I also do not stomach auctions that sell horses to the (always there in the back row,) meat guys. Lisa
