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[Diane_Windsor]

This is NOT a debate board mind you! I posted some info that I felt was horrible and sad and somebody had to come along and make light and discredit of what I had said, which, in my opinion, is NOT cool! I guess some people just have to try and prove that they are "better and smarter" than the rest of us!

You are taking her posts way too personally. I think it is important to present all sides of an issue, and not just take the ASPCA's word for it.

Diane

 

[alwayz_remember_Calvery]

I didn't mean to post more information about it to cause a problem. I just don't want people to get all up in arms about things if they don't have to. It's best to look at all sides of the arguement before you come to a conclusin.
To the poster who posted something about how she doesn't think the statement about horses being left in pasture to pasture breed is correct. How do you you know? Sure, your daughter works for a farm that breeds arabians. Newsflash, this isn't the farm that your daughter worked for. That's like saying "oh, my daughter works for a farm that breeds *insert any horse breed* and i know that people don't let horses pasture breed because all they do is A.I." It's a silly generalization to make. Besides, if a mare comes into heat and there's a stallion around that is fertile, he'll breed her. It's what God designed him to do. Pasture breeding is a lot quicker than hand breeding and requires a lot less help, although i'm sure it isn't as safe.

 

[soblessed53]

I wasn't saying horses are not pasture bred for the simple reason of my daughter working at an Arabian horse farm,but from her experience in the horse farm industry, and my years of reading,I know this is a very outmoded practice. Same as cows, except in extremely rare instances, are no longer pasture bred either. For one thing artificial insemination is used more and more,and for another the owner prefers to have more control and also it helps cut down on injuries,or any injuries can be attended to immediately when there are people present during the breeding. It is also not a NORMAL practice for mares to run in the same pasture with ANY stallion at ANY TIME!!!!! Certainly not on breeding farms.

 

[alwayz_remember_Calvery]

They aren't breeding farms, they're PMU farms.

 

[soblessed53]

Oh ok,had to go back and read what a PMU farm is"pregnant mare's urine".

I had never heard of any of this before,so I did a simple search PMU +ranches and here are the results folks can read the good and bad for themselves



http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=PMU+%2Branches&FORM=MSNH&srch_type=0

Didn't really see anything bad until I came to the PETA[animal activists] site on page 3 of the web results.

 

[Tumbleweed64]

I would just like to add that I got my information from a very reliable source

( the ASPCA)

 

[soblessed53]

Sorry, but I could not find a thing on your page from the link about premarin at all? So what is the ASPCA doing about it?

 

[alwayz_remember_Calvery]

the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals isn't going to be able to do anything to PMU farms. The farms are in Canada and the ASPCA is an American organization.