Barn Filth And Disrepair

Doc-t March 7, 2015
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Having filth signifies that the owner doesn’t care about the horses in their custody. But I have also seen inside these people’s homes, and usually, they are just as filthy. The environment is usually also in disrepair, either from laziness or lack of money. Either way, the horse is forced to live in it.

Filth affects horses’ health, most notably in their hooves and skin. Unfortunately, the mental damage is unknown, but when we work on horses in these filthy environments, the horses seem to want to say, “Take me away from this.”  

The lack of respect for horses kept in filthy conditions is in other areas, including their nutrition and training. Unfortunately, changing the environment is never an option, as filth and disrepair are part of the horse owner’s makeup. The only way to change things is to move the horses to another farm, but unfortunately, most of the owners of filthy farms are unwilling to sell or give away their horses. The same is in human homes, and knowing this occurs in homes where respect and love are absent breaks the hearts of those seeing it. Life isn’t fair.

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This shed offers shelter from wind and rain (assuming the roof does not leak). The floor is wet mud offering no dry area to allow for body heat to remain in the horse. The wood lining is destroyed and is coming apart. The roof is sagging. The bucket is tied with string so it cannot be easily cleaned. The horse has a crested neck indicating the farm feeds grain to compensate for other poor health conditions.
Knee and hock deep mud with no where to go to remain warm and dry. There is a shed but it also has a floor of mud, just not as deep. The hay manger is in disrepair and is dangerous. The fence line is in disrepair with a loose hot wire – all potential causes of injury.
Filthy environment
This water trough is non-functional, the paint is peeled off or is fading and the stall and barn are covered in cobwebs and stale air.
Filthy environment
Filthy environment
Filthy environment
Filthy environment
Filthy environment
Unused tack hangs covered in dirt, dust, and cobwebs in a barn equally filthy.
Unused tack hangs covered in dirt, dust, and cobwebs in a barn equally filthy.
A filthy stall in disrepair. The metal bars over the glass windows are an after thought and dangerous. The kick mats are hung by string, fithy, and torn. Cobwebs were everywhere. And the stall was too small for this horse.
Holes in the ceiling created by horses rearing in this stall in the past. The grooms said the rats would fall through these holes during the night.
A filthy stall. The ammonia smell was very strong throughout the barn. The wet bedding gave no insulation and actually makes the horse colder. You couldn’t pay me to lay down in this stall. The kick mats hung along the walls were filthy and damaged.
Mud is everywhere on this large boarding barn where turn out is limited to these paddocks.
Filthy environments
Mud is everywhere on this large boarding barn where turn out is limited to these paddocks.
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