Horses Needing Homes

Leftover PMU mares and foals fending for themselves

Update: All horses have been placed!!

URGENT NEWS from Gibbons, Alberta
Aug 17th, 2006

There are 90+ horses needing homes before they go to auction and most likely slaughter.

*DEADLINE IS SEPT 4th*

See updated pictures here or the other new album is full of more candid shots, not all of them ID'ed yet.

These appear to be leftover PMU mares and their foals (ages ranging from babies to four year olds); all are wild and as far as anyone can tell completely unhandled. They have been left to fend for themselves and were recently discovered and purchased enmass by a rancher/horse dealer to rehabilitate and sell. Whoever isn't sold will be going to auction and likely to meat.

This group is made up of mares, probably draft X or qh X and their foals, who were sired by a thoroughbred/Qh type stallion. There are no papered horses (with the exception of one paint mare); there are 92 horses in all, 69 mature horses and 24 babies. All must go.

They are in pretty rough shape but have been wormed. The gentleman who has them can trailer them if needed and is willing to do Coggins/Health Cert. for cross border purchases.

Prices are just above meat prices basically. He has priced them at: Babies: $350-400; Yearlings-2 yr olds: $500-550; Mares: priced according to size (scale on site). There are some lovely horses in this bunch.

Interested parties can contact:
Melodie
raines70@telus.net
250-573-2463

"Help us lead Canada's horses away from barbarism . .
and into the protected pastures of a civilized nation."