Your Fly Fringes making a difference to Honduran Cart Horses
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Uploaded by horsecharity on Jan 25, 2012
When a team from World Horse Welfare visited Honduras to assess the wellbeing of the country's cart horses, we found that nearly half the working horses in San Pedro Sula had open sore wounds around their eyes.
We asked people to send in their unwanted fly fringes through the World Horse Welfare website (http://www.worldhorsewelfare.org) or to make a donation towards a fly fringe. In this film saddler Stuart Russell shows how the donated fly fringes are impacting upon the lives of Honduran Cart Horses today.
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@cammarkgross That's their way of life. We shouldn't intrude on their way of life. However, i do agree what they're doing is amazing and helping the lives of all horses in europe. It's just amazing.
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@TheOneAndOnly013 i don't want to come off as rude either, but you said it yourself. Neither the owners or their families are well fed, so what gives them the right to work a dying horse into the ground?
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@LuvMitch247 The kids and the owners themselves aren't exactly well fed either. They're poor and don't have the easiest life so their horses obviously won't have the easiest life. I'm glad the owners took the initiative to get the fly fringes for their horses but the fly fringes were donated and that's the only way they can afford these. These owners are trying but they need help. I hope I didn't offend you, I don't mean to come across as rude.
3 weeks ago 6
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@LuvMitch247 starving no underweight yes
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Most likely the horses are that skinny because of worms and other heath problems. Most of our horses (esp. my Arab gelding- He had very thin skin around his eyes and the flies drove him nuts) wore a fly fringe or mask when they were out grazing or in the barn when the flies were active. They really help.
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@LuvMitch247 alot of those people adopt horses and some just dont have the land to keep them up also they could be old horses :)
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People should send fly veils and fly fringes as well :D
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any start is good...........
1 month ago 2
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well done Stuart & WHW
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Although this is a wonderful idea...has someone noticed that the horses are starving?
LuvMitch247 1 month ago 18
Thank you guys for all the hard work you do for horses, hope you guide people to the right path the way should treat their animals and feed them well !! most of the horses are too skinny to work :(
bahaamh 1 month ago 9