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Originally Posted by Ne7en
Unfortunate, but you don't dictate the options.
They certainly can live on a farm. And yes there are people that can afford them. If you cannot then you should not own one. Suggesting the only place for these animals is running wagons is foolish.
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Not really. The horses being bought for farms and the chuckwagon horses wont be the same. The simple fact is ~100,000 horses will be slaughtered in Canada this year. Some will be old, most wont. The chuckwagons give one other opportunity to reach that old age that would not be available if you got rid of it. Simple fact is the chuckwagons save horses, not kills them.
And it's not the chuckwagon owners who can't afford the horses, it's the people they are buying from for the most part. Until you get rid of the horse-racing where the vast majority horses are finished after a couple years of age, the chuckwagons will continue to be a good thing for horse lovers.