The Amish

[wiggles44]

Take a break Mike
The EAA members are reading

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Take a break Mike
The EAA members are reading

I agree

[MIKE CAMPBELL]

So what's your solution?

Have YOU set up and fully funded AFTERCARE for every horse you have ever bred or owned or trained?

Not one of the crying contributors on this thread or any other has offered anything of substance or value as to aftercare once they are done racing.

The Amish fill a void.

A void left by you and every person similarly situated.

What is YOUR AFTERCARE PLAN?

There are plenty of retirement organizations that will find homes for the horses. Are they perfect? No but it is better than the Amish. Unfortunately, the scum that send their horses to the Amish do it for the price they get for the horse/meat.

[Janny]

Love the Amish and buy a lot of stuff from them.

[Raging pace]

Amish are really hard on the retired race horses that they get,never have or never will give any or sell any of my retired race horses to them !Some owners just don’t care , have no heart , just dump them to the Amish to make a couple hundred dollars .

[MIKE CAMPBELL]

Amish are really hard on the retired race horses that they get,never have or never will give any or sell any of my retired race horses to them !Some owners just don’t care , have no heart , just dump them to the Amish to make a couple hundred dollars .

Great Post 

[Calhoun]

Amish are really hard on the retired race horses that they get,never have or never will give any or sell any of my retired race horses to them !Some owners just don’t care , have no heart , just dump them to the Amish to make a couple hundred dollars .

Where do yours go?

[MIKE CAMPBELL]

Where do yours go?

FYI for all the dirtbags......The re are turnout farms all over the Country that charge less than $10 per day. That is basically equal to a couple of cups of coffee per day. Man up douchebags.

[Meadow Ford]

FYI for all the dirtbags......The re are turnout farms all over the Country that charge less than $10 per day. That is basically equal to a couple of cups of coffee per day. Man up douchebags.

Google reports that a standardbred typically lives to between 20 and 30 years with some reaching 30 to 40.
At your est of $3,500 per year. IMHO That is a tuff nut to crack.

[Black juice]

FYI for all the dirtbags......The re are turnout farms all over the Country that charge less than $10 per day. That is basically equal to a couple of cups of coffee per day. Man up douchebags.

How do you find these farms? Preferably in Florida ?

[dougie]

FYI for all the dirtbags......The re are turnout farms all over the Country that charge less than $10 per day. That is basically equal to a couple of cups of coffee per day. Man up douchebags.

Mike, I think most people look at the Amish as a oddity. They seem like a peaceful lot of furniture making bakers who just want to practice their religion quietly and away from others. But their treatment of retired horses is repulsive. I hope all horses who can't race go to those turnout farms you mentioned. it's worth the $10 bucks a day. And it's the moral thing to do.

[MIKE CAMPBELL]

Mike, I think most people look at the Amish as a oddity. They seem like a peaceful lot of furniture making bakers who just want to practice their religion quietly and away from others. But their treatment of retired horses is repulsive. I hope all horses who can't race go to those turnout farms you mentioned. it's worth the $10 bucks a day. And it's the moral thing to do.

[goblue]

New vocations is the best aftercare option available

https://www.newvocations.org/

[MIKE CAMPBELL]

New vocations is the best aftercare option available

https://www.newvocations.org/

They are awesome.