Backwoods_Bob
10-15-2007, 01:06 PM
Seems with the high price of hay this year horses are being sold at auction for dang little right now where we live.
I'm talking good rideble horses for a few hundred bucks, and broomtails or greenbroke for as little as five or ten bucks.
People can't give 'em away, and with most of the slaughter houses for horses shut down in this country the price of horse flesh certainly has dropped.
So, has anyone thought of buying a cheap hoorse at aution to butcher?
My wife and I had to put down one of our horses recently, and being the frugal types we are, we naturally butcherd the animal.
talk about tons of meat!
Sadly, that animal had to go to waste. He had cancer, so we figured we'd better not eat it.
But with the price of horses so low, it did get us to thinking....
I reckon you'd have to proccess the meat yerself, but although it's plenty of work with an animal this size, it's easy enough. Not much different from doing a deer.
The payoff is enough excellent meat to feed everyone you know all year long!
I'm talking good rideble horses for a few hundred bucks, and broomtails or greenbroke for as little as five or ten bucks.
People can't give 'em away, and with most of the slaughter houses for horses shut down in this country the price of horse flesh certainly has dropped.
So, has anyone thought of buying a cheap hoorse at aution to butcher?
My wife and I had to put down one of our horses recently, and being the frugal types we are, we naturally butcherd the animal.
talk about tons of meat!
Sadly, that animal had to go to waste. He had cancer, so we figured we'd better not eat it.
But with the price of horses so low, it did get us to thinking....
I reckon you'd have to proccess the meat yerself, but although it's plenty of work with an animal this size, it's easy enough. Not much different from doing a deer.
The payoff is enough excellent meat to feed everyone you know all year long!