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  • #21
    Wow, some serious train wrecks in there.

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    • #22
      Originally posted by Drvmb1ggl3 View Post
      While the concept of rehabilitating prisoners with horses is a noble one, there surely has to be a better way of spending tax dollars that doesn't involve adding hundreds of grade horse mutts yearly to the horse population and then selling them for a little over meat money prices. I mean, if you need a cheap horse, there is hardly a lack low grade mutt horses, OTTBs, and cheap QHs to chose from, esp in LA and surrounding states, is there?
      I agree.

      I'm disappointed, too. Before I clicked on the site I thought it was prisoners working with rescue horses or maybe some of the wild horses.
      I really don't think they should be breeding.
      You know why cowboys don't like Appaloosas?" - Answer: Because to train a horse, you have to be smarter than it is.

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      • #23
        Originally posted by pj View Post
        I agree.

        I'm disappointed, too. Before I clicked on the site I thought it was prisoners working with rescue horses or maybe some of the wild horses.
        I really don't think they should be breeding.
        They have a program that produces a product that works for a lot of people, why not breed?

        Oh, right...they don't know what they are doing
        they breed mutts
        they ought to work with somebody elses reject....

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        • #24
          It doesn't seem like they are breeding much, and the horses certainly have jobs to go to with the mounted police.

          I don't care for the type of horse being bred, but obviously they sell to people and give prisoners jobs that have to be better than sitting in a cell all day.

          Working with a group of horses bred for temperament and soundness is a lot different than taking in horses with issues and soundness problems off the track and from the mustang range. However, there are prisons that train mustangs successfully, and OTTBs, too. Just a different idea at Angola.

          I do see the point that they sell for a lower price, and maybe the quality of a higher end warmblood isn't there, but they are horses with a career path.

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          • #25
            Originally posted by Alagirl View Post
            They have a program that produces a product that works for a lot of people, why not breed?

            Oh, right...they don't know what they are doing
            they breed mutts
            they ought to work with somebody elses reject....
            Sorry, having a flashback - haven't we gone through this on another thread?

            Seriously, Angola horses have a great reputation in this area. I know that HPD has some, and when they were using a TB stallion named Swashbuckle for their main stud, the horses seemed much more refined and athletic. That said, I love me a Perchie and despite the fact that these are crosses, the look is there, and that's what matters.

            And for those who are sneering at a prison farm breeding horses, better not talk too loud around those who run the Huntsville QH breeding program; you're liable to get run out of their barns on a rail. Their horses are stunning quality and yes, the inmates do the work with them.

            Some people need their pipes cleaned out, but good.
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            • #26
              There were a couple of 1/2 DWB, 1/4 TB, 1/4 Perchie that I thought were quite nice and I wouldn't have minded taking home.
              "It's never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliot

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              • #27
                Originally posted by Alagirl View Post
                A sound horse with training but no papers beats the one without training any day, papers or not.
                I'm not sure if I grew out of stupid or ran out of brave.

                Practicing Member of the Not too Klassy for Boxed Wine Clique

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                • #28
                  Originally posted by ESG View Post
                  Sorry, having a flashback - haven't we gone through this on another thread?

                  Seriously, Angola horses have a great reputation in this area. I know that HPD has some, and when they were using a TB stallion named Swashbuckle for their main stud, the horses seemed much more refined and athletic. That said, I love me a Perchie and despite the fact that these are crosses, the look is there, and that's what matters.

                  And for those who are sneering at a prison farm breeding horses, better not talk too loud around those who run the Huntsville QH breeding program; you're liable to get run out of their barns on a rail. Their horses are stunning quality and yes, the inmates do the work with them.

                  Some people need their pipes cleaned out, but good.
                  You said it sister. The sarcasm didn't translate well, but yes, it was a flashback from that other thread fo sho.

                  Some of those Angola horses look pretty nice.
                  I bet they would clean up nicely, too, with a nice pulled mane, a banged tail and shot from the off side, I am sure a lot of 'experts' could not tell them from a European auction catalog....








                  Some looked a little weird, but that's they way a cooky can crumble when you have to sell everything through a sale and can't hide one through private treaty.

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                  • #29
                    And it isn't like Angola is breeding thirtylevenmillion foals every year and offering them to the public. They breed what they need for their facility, and offer the excess (or those that don't work out) to others. What, exactly, is wrong with that?

                    And to those people who are getting a bug up their behinds about this program, you might want to remember that this prison has been breeding its own work stock since its inception in 1901. I guess that it would be more politically correct/acceptable to some of you if the inmates made John Deere tractors instead of breeding horses, but I doubt the state of Louisiana (or John Deere, for that matter ) would fork over the money to build a plant for the inmates to work.

                    So they breed horses. That they use. And sometimes, they offer their culls to the general public for sale. Increasing revenue. How dare they.
                    In loving memory of Laura Jahnke.
                    A life lived by example, done too soon.
                    www.caringbridge.org/page/laurajahnke/

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                    • #30
                      I doubt a "rescue" would adopt out to this program. GEEEz good homes have problems adopting from them.....
                      Draumr Hesta Farm
                      "Wenn Du denkst es geht nicht mehr, kommt von irgendwo ein kleines Licht daher"
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                      • #31
                        Originally posted by Nootka View Post
                        I doubt a "rescue" would adopt out to this program. GEEEz good homes have problems adopting from them.....

                        they ain't adopting, they are buying.

                        And why would a rescue touch them?

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