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RE: [RC] Deaths - the backhoe - LOUISE BURTON
Hi All, A couple of comments on this thread: Backhoes: All depends on who you know, and where you live. My beloved horse was buried for $75. We knew the guy and he felt sorry for me I think! Regular backhoe charges for horses are $150. Of course this is to bury on your place. Most animals around here are just drug to an out of the way place. Circle of life, ya know.
Autopsies: Unless we know for sure why the horse died (like a broken leg) we get all of ours "posted" by our local vet. I want to know WHY the horse died. Maybe it can prevent other deaths. For example, we had a horse die of colic...ruptured stomach. When we posted him, we found a huge enterolith of persimmon pulp that had gotten stuck in his pyloric sphyncter. We ended up spending big bucks to have a dozer come and doze our 100 acres to get rid of the persimmons, but it most likely saved the lives of other horses. Autopsies at rides: This will be much more of a "micro" autopsy than our "macro" ones on the farm. ...ie blood tests, etc. I am definitely not for $$ added on to entry fees (and of course ANOTHER headache for ride managers). This is something that is the responsibility of the rider, but I can visualize the very type of person this would happen to would not pay the fee, and most of us would have a hard time paying $500 or so to do this. Since it doesn't happen too often, maybe there is regular "education money" from AERC -Louise Burton
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