The Horse Forum banner
Status
Not open for further replies.

Skinned horse head

14K views 148 replies 29 participants last post by  iloverascal777 
#1 ·
Tonight a boarder came and told us about a horse head on the side of the road that had been skinned. I asked her if it was hit by a car and she said no that it was skinned and laying there. Well we went home after caring for our horses and as we were driving down the road(half mile from our horses) sure enough there was a full size horse head perfectly skinned.Ears were missing but teeth,muscle,and eyes were all intact. There was no body to be seen just the head..from the jaw line. When I looked at it it looked like it was staring at me :shock:

What kind of sick person would do that!? Someone must have sold the body for meet and kept the coat...how horrible.

Oh and to top it off..it has been out all day and people who I know have told me that they have been making calls to the police station and we have called to and it's now 6:46 PM and still there....
 
#5 ·
No not yet anyways...not that I have heard of but in september and last spring there were horse rapings happening at our fairgrounds...I am worried that there is some sicko out there who plotted this out in revenge...Who could do something like that?
 
#9 ·
Not to doubt you but any chance its a skinned elk head? Or moose head? With just the eyes, skin, etc they look alot like a horse head.
We have folks here swear they have seen a human foot and it is a skinned bear foot.


well...I never thought about that...I guess they have similar head shape. I will look in the paper on monday and keep and eye out on city websites.

skinned bear feet look like human feet? really?
 
#14 ·
that sounds exactly how a butcher would do it. ears missing and all that.

i dissected a horse head about a month ago and it's ears were missing but it did have hair. we had to skin it ourselves.

it could have been an accident... fallen off a lorry or something. at least i hope so!

tbh, you need to know what you are doing when you skin a horse and you need a sharp knife! it's not easy!
 
#16 ·
well I just hope it isn't something people are doing to random horses...I am hoping SDFA is right and I believe you have to know what you are doing to skin/butcher an animal...I heard it was difficult.

Also we have a big cat park a city away and people send their horses there for the cats but the butcher does it there soo...
 
#17 ·
Maybe it fell off the truck that was taking them to where they dispose the remains, if that's how they dispose the remains? Cause at cat parks the horses are shot before they are cut up and such. So no pain or stolen horses were involved if that's where the horse head came from.
 
#19 ·
Skinning a deer, moose, elk or buffalo etc is very very hard work and very precise. I "cape" deer, elk and game like for folks who want to mount them. I have been doing it for years and its very tedious work to get the skin off without cutting it, especially around the eyes, nose and bones of the face. Its not something that the average person is going to do for fun.
I suspect if this is truly a horse, then it probably fell off a rendering truck. I still wonder if its not an elk or moose, if you have not seen what one looks like skinned, minus the ears nose and just the eyes, it is very deceiving.
And yes, a skinned bear foot looks like a human foot. Many people report finding a human foot and it ends up being a bear foot that some dog has drug home after the owners skinned it out.
 
#21 ·
Okay,so I talked to the lady that told me about it and she also said it was a horse head. She said it wasn't a elk head at all.
Also this guy that lives next door said their is a man that eats horses and his wife told him to shutup...that's the rumor..says he butchers them and sticks them in his freezer but maybe he is trying to scare us but I would be more scared as they have horses next to him
 
#22 ·
It is a real possibility that there is a man that eats horses close to you, after all there is nothing illegal about eating your own horse. Now the connection to the severed head, I doubt. I agree that it was probably form a shipment of carcasses headed to the big cat park or something. Or maybe the man who eats horse butchered it and a dog ran off with the head?

Probabaly nothing cruel or evil or anything.
 
#24 ·
Yeah I know there are, so what meat is meat and horse is good tasting meat.I used to live down the road from people who ate horses, kept them just like every other livestock animal is kept and killed and butchered them the same way. Nothing cruel or gross, the meat actually tasted really good and rich. Yeah I ate some.

It is not illegal to eat or butcher horse meat in the US you just cannot sell it.

And it is the same as seeing a deer or raccoon or something laying on the side of the road, maybe plus a little shock factor because it is a "pet" type animal.
 
#26 ·
I didnt eat the WHOLE horse haha, and It lust looked like red meat, I didnt flinstone it and just grab a freshly dead leg. I tried it both grilled and chicken fried, tasted like a cross between bison, deer, and cow. Nothing weird or anything, they had it in the deep freezer packed in butcher paper just like when you pick meat up at the actual butcher.

They also kept cows and chickens and I think they had a couple of pigs. They had a shed with a few deep freezers in it that they stored the meat and veggies from the garden in, real down home people. The animals were free range and well fed, very well cared for.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
You have insufficient privileges to reply here.
Top