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Kill Sales or Not! You tell me!

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I need to know whether these sales in NC are actually "kill sales". Post pictures or stories, anything would be awesome!!! This is for a school project so anything would be greatly appreciated!

1. Carolina Stockyards, Siler City, NC
2. Arden Horse Sale (Ashville Sale), Fletcher, NC
3. Boiling Springs/Cliffside Auction, Boiling Springs, NC
4. Tony Casey (Seller ???), Benson, NC
5. Foothills Livestock Auction, Forest City, NC
6. Randy Hatcher (Seller ???), Chinquapin, NC
7. Gay Lee (Seller ???), Dunn, NC
8. Lyman Livestock, Chinquapin, NC
9. Martin County Horse Auction, Oak City, NC
10. Mt. Airy Stockyard, Mt. Airy, NC
11. Oxford Sale, Oxford, NC
12. Pikeville Horse Sale, Pikeville, NC
13. Southeastern Livestock Market, Chadbourne, NC
14. T-H Auction Barn, Stokes, NC
15. Union County Stockyard (Auction), Monroe, NC
16. Vale Livestock, Vale, NC
17. Carolina-Virgina Stockyards, Winsdor, NC
18. East Carolina Stockyards (Greenville Livestock), Ayden, NC
19. Ranger Livestock, Murphy, NC
20. Archdale, NC Sale???
21. Powell’s Livestock, Inc.
22. Iredell County Sale, Troutman, NC ???
23. Danville Auction ???
24. Spindale, NC Auction ???

If you have any others please share! Also, times and dates for sales would be awesome to give too! Thanks soooo much!
 
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the Siler City sale (carolina stockyards) is the 3rd tuesday of every month and the Archdale sale is the first Saturday of every month. at both the horses start at 7. the tack sale usually starts at 5.
 
#5 ·
Martin county horse auctionis not a kill sale . Not even sure they still operate.T&H sales a lot of chickens and goats don't think I have ever heard of a horse sold there. Carolina -Virginia & East Carolina do not sell horses they sell hogs and cattle. Most of the places in N.C. listed sell hogs and cattle.
 
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RE: Kill Sales

I don't really think there are sales that are specifically "Kill Sales" for horses. I used to host a yearly horse sale, and we would generally sell horses by the head and the ones that didn't have a lot of interest would end up being sold to the killer buyer. We always tried to have a killer buyer available to keep the prices up as much as possible, and I'm sure these sales do the same.

The horse slaughter issue is definitely controversial right now, but having killer buyers available makes all horses worth more money.
 
#13 ·
You are right, they do buy by the pound but they do know how to estimate the weight of any horse. By the horse that is cheap and they are cheap right now. I have seen a horse (stud) rode into a sale that was only at $125 and still no bid. The kill buyers didn't buy him, he was not no saled, but he could have been bid on by the kill buyer and would have went home with him. This was a well known stud from NE that was brought to a sale in SD. Just saying that I don't believe you can totally keep away a kill buyer. I believe they are at each and every auction at sometime and will buy the horse that doesn't sell and the owner doesn't no sale it. I am not sure how they can know the background of each and every buyer. I think that would be next to impossible.

Jmho! An owner that cares about their horse will never sell at an auction. You have no control over the buyer and could be sending that horse into a situation worse than a slaughter house.
 
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I live in PA, and I don't know why I upset myself going to the New Holland auction, but for some reason I used to. There are kill buyers there, but they do not seem to pay over $100 for your average sized horse, a little more for a draft.

It is pretty obvious who the kill buyers are when they bid and win $50 horses who are dead lame and buy a lot of them. It would be nice to think that they are rescues, but I am not quite thinking that.
 
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