Post by ReHomeYourHorse on Apr 8, 2011 7:47:47 GMT -5
Licensing
Create a licensing system for breeding. If you had to have a license to breed a horse, there would be a cost associated with creating horses.
The cost of licensing would make it more costly to breed, thus:
-less people would breed
-only breeding of horses that would sell for a decent price would be viable
-the money made through licensing could conceivably be used for rescue efforts, euthanization clinics, gelding clinics, etc. further supporting a healthy equine industry
Licensing Issues
-getting it set up
-policing it – who? how? etc.
My thoughts on policing it would encompass the fact that to sell a horse you would have to provide the purchaser with the license. This license could become part of a comprehensive passporting system, ensuring all shots, coggins, etc. plus medications not acceptable to the meat pipeline would be accounted for. No horse would ever change hands without the passport/license, and the breeder and each successive owner would be noted on it.
In my eyes, this also encourages accountability to each breeder and successive owner, as the horse can be traced directly back to them.
Biennial Breeding
Only breed every second year for two to four years.
-cut the amount of new horses on the market in half (providing breeders don’t breed twice as many horses every second year)
-brings prices back up
Biennial Breeding Issues
-getting people to “buy into” the program
-making them understand that while it may seem like they’ll make half the money, they’ll actually end up making more when the prices bounce back
-I suspect right now those less-than-stellar breeders are actually increasing their production to make as much money. What they don’t get is that they’re perpetuating the problem and thus driving prices even further down. Not only that, they’re increasing their costs! If they bred less but each horse was worth more it would mean less costs and less work which equates to more money in their pocket.
Create a licensing system for breeding. If you had to have a license to breed a horse, there would be a cost associated with creating horses.
The cost of licensing would make it more costly to breed, thus:
-less people would breed
-only breeding of horses that would sell for a decent price would be viable
-the money made through licensing could conceivably be used for rescue efforts, euthanization clinics, gelding clinics, etc. further supporting a healthy equine industry
Licensing Issues
-getting it set up
-policing it – who? how? etc.
My thoughts on policing it would encompass the fact that to sell a horse you would have to provide the purchaser with the license. This license could become part of a comprehensive passporting system, ensuring all shots, coggins, etc. plus medications not acceptable to the meat pipeline would be accounted for. No horse would ever change hands without the passport/license, and the breeder and each successive owner would be noted on it.
In my eyes, this also encourages accountability to each breeder and successive owner, as the horse can be traced directly back to them.
Biennial Breeding
Only breed every second year for two to four years.
-cut the amount of new horses on the market in half (providing breeders don’t breed twice as many horses every second year)
-brings prices back up
Biennial Breeding Issues
-getting people to “buy into” the program
-making them understand that while it may seem like they’ll make half the money, they’ll actually end up making more when the prices bounce back
-I suspect right now those less-than-stellar breeders are actually increasing their production to make as much money. What they don’t get is that they’re perpetuating the problem and thus driving prices even further down. Not only that, they’re increasing their costs! If they bred less but each horse was worth more it would mean less costs and less work which equates to more money in their pocket.