How do we solve the UK horse crisis?

How do we solve the UK horse crisis?

1. 6. Main point: the answers

   • stronger enforcement of microchipping and passporting laws
     • change the laws on fly grazing
       • education
         • gelding and microchipping clinics
           • keep a national database of all horse owners to discourage abandonment

2. 1. Intro: personal anecdote

   • Story from BRC mag about Faith, Hope and Charity
     • These are 3 ponies who had been abandoned

3. 2. Explain the problem

   • Rescue centres can no longer cope with the amount of abandoned and neglected horses
     • 'One the verge' report completed by Blue Cross, redwings and RSPCA

4. 4. Consequences for the abandoned horses

   • neglect
     • further over breeding
       • ruin land
         • danger to community

5. 3. The reasons horses are being abandoned

   • irresponsible and over breeding
     • economic climate
       • Fly grazing
         • When people graze horses illegally on land that doesn't belong to them
         • Abandonment
           • Stallions not being gelded
             • No microchips or passports so horses can't be traced

6. 5. cost of keeping a horse

   • livery 50-150/month
     • feed10-40/month
       • hay and bedding 20-60/month
         • vaccination - 70/year
           • farriery - 20-70/every 6-8 wks