Rescue horses? (20 characters)?

Getting rid of the horses you own because you don't have the money to pay for them just to turn around and get some more is ridiculous.

If you can't afford them, DON'T GET MORE. What happens if you get a rescue horse that can't live with your mare in the pasture, either? Then you're stuck with one more horse.

No, rescue horses are as expensive to keep as any other horse. If you are keeping your oldsters, consider dividing the field so that your difficult mare has a field buddy, but is separated by a fence. The horses can be close to one another, and not get hurt or bullied. Getting a rescue horse could actually endanger your mare, as they often have medical issues and sometimes, even with the best rescues, infectious diseases (such as being a carrier of strangles) that will endanger your oldsters.

Good luck! I'm sorry that you're having to make this hard decision!

This sounds potentially like animal hoarding to me. If you have 16 horses, you already have one to keep for a field buddy. WHY are you considering yet another horse. Have you thought of adopting out some of your horses or fostering them for the rescue so that they can help you find suitable homes? Other people besides you could provide a loving home to your friends. Rescues are used to screening potential adopters and they often have a contract clause that people cannot sell or transfer the horse except back to the rescue.

Rescue horses often actually cost more to keep than non-rescue horses because they have special medical needs due to injury or neglect, or they're old enough to require senior feed, arthritis supplements, etc.

16 seems like way too many for one person to take care of even if they don't require special medications. If you're doing hoof trims at $30 a horse, with a bare minimum of a trim every three months, that's almost $2,000 a year in farrier bills alone! Unless you're not even doing the bare minimum...

I suggest keeping as many horses as you can afford to take GOOD care of, instead of having more horses you can take mediocre care of. Don't get any more, especially needy rescue horses-- and sell some you do have!

Your story sounds like insanity to me, running out of money and still ready to get more horses!!!

How many children in your area do not have enough food to eat and you want more horses.

Advertise some of yours and give them away and give some of the money you are not putting into horses to chairity.

Good luck! I know loving horses can be addiction I also have it but I never have more than two.

Keeping an unsound or untrained horse costs just as much as keeping a sound or rideable one. If out of 15 horses none are a suitable companion for your mare, why would a rescue horse be any different?

Unrideable horses cost just as much to take care of as rideable horses.

Instead of selling them, why not loan some out to people as companions or if they're suitable for riding then you could loan them out too? That way you would still own them but not have them on your property and another person would be paying you to own them for a set number of years.

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