• MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
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      18 days ago

      and from what I hear will keel over and die any chance they get. I’m no expert though. but not being able to throw unwanted ingested items seems like a pretty big design flaw

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            18 days ago

            Can confirm.

            Expensive every month, expensive to treat, expensive to shoe, expensive to house/feed/etc.

            We are actually looking at property to do some farming, and a chunk of it will be for retired horses.

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          17 days ago

          There is lots and lots of “unwanted” food that will kill a horse in most natural habitats through the world.

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              17 days ago

              I really don’t know where you are going with this. They don’t go out eating plastics and whatever either. They get sick because they’ve eaten something contaminated (what happens way more often on the wild) or because they failed to distinguish the food (what also happens way more often on the wild).