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Field Frolics producing unwanted Foals
Controversial news as state-subsidised castration of stallions hits the US equine agenda.
The cause, that groups are campaigning for across the American nation, would help resolve the currently unmanageable situation where horse rescue centres are inundated with foals produced as a result of poor breeding practices.
The Kentucky and Minnesota Horse Councils are promoting an incentive scheme where horse owners are able to claim $100 towards the cost of stallion castration by a registered vet.
Essie Rogers, director of education for the Kentucky Horse Council said: “It is much more expensive to feed two extra horses every year than it is to castrate the one creating the extra horse.
“The programme is the brainchild of the Horse Protection Society (HPS) of North Carolina whose Director, Susan Lurz, explained, “People are putting stallions and mares together in the same pasture, letting them be, and they’re just producing foals like crazy.”
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