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Going to a horse auction tomorrow :(

6K views 21 replies 16 participants last post by  HombresArablegacy 
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I'm going with a bunch of people (Barn owner, friends, Head of the rescue I volunteer for, and a bunch of volunteers) to a local horse auction tomorrow in Unadilla NY. This auction runs once a month in the winter and usually 70 - 100 horses run through it. Horses at this auction have sold for as little as $5 in the past! It's a notorious slaughter auction, and while a few nice horses run through it, the majority of horses are skin and bones, very ill, or old and untrained.

My barn owner is letting me and 2 friends each pick out a horse to save if we help with vet bills and such! Very fair! I'm on the lookout for a pregnant mare, save 2 lives for the price of one! I will let everyone know what we come home with!
 
#17 ·
same here every time i go to an auction i fall in love with at least one of the horses...once it was a beautiful black mare she was SOOOO sweet and the reason she was at the auction.....she had a birth defect that left her one front leg crooked she wasnt ridable but id still take her. i always wonder what happened to her...they were selling her as a brood mare(not a good idea the poor girl)
 
#6 ·
When you choose a horse choose one that will be cost effective to get ready to sell. A young gelding would be much easier to get trained and resold toa good home.
 
#11 ·
Today is the day!! Wish us luck! We won't be getting home till really really late so I will update tomorrow! I'm really nervous! It's going to be so hard seeing horses in this situation and not being able to help them all!
 
#13 ·
My BO when I was a kid used to rescue a few horses every couple months from slaughter...my old jumper was an OTTB from an auction she rescued and then cold to me for the purchase price + food she'd put into him for a few months.

Good luck. Take pics and let us know how it all turns out!!
 
#14 ·
Ok guys here's the update! Thankfully not a lot of horses went through the sale last night, maybe around 40 which isn't bad since they were expecting over 70. There were 4 gorgeous drafts that went to good home and a ton of adorable mini's, including 2 pregnant mini mares and two 10 month old mini colts. Im pretty sure all the mini's went to good homes.

I personally did not get anything. The rescue I volunteer at bought 5 horses. A pregnant palamino paint with a nasty injury on her hind pastern, a papered and tattooed mustang mare, an emaciated mini stud, a yearling paint colt, and a pregnant black/white tobiano mare.

Unfortunately around 8-10 horses went to the meat buyer. Including this ridiculously gorgeous but completely untouched paint draft 3 year old stud. He was HUGE and dangerous! But it broke my heart anyway

I was sitting next to a man who had his 2 bay quarter horses in the auction, both of them (gorgeous horses) sold for meat, and the guy goes "Good, I got a decent amount of money for them!" Made me sick :(
 
#19 ·
Im sure there will be pictures of them eventually! Kristina at H&R i believe is going to be fostering her, so you can always ask her for some pics on facebook
 
#21 ·
I have a hard time going to auctions, especially anytime I see donkeys and mules up for sale. I went to the New Years Day sale at Eyler's in Thurmont, MD a few years back, and a lot of horses ship on to the killer auctions from there. I fell in love with a very sweet little gray mule gelding who looked very concerned, but was trying SO hard. I still wish I had had the money at the time to get him!
 
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