Prices vary with with location. Your best bet will be the vet school if they will take her to let students practice the surgery on her or a local hunt or zoo. I don’t know how much it costs but you can have them rendered. Around here the number is 1 800 DEADCOW.
If you do have her “put to sleep” try to have the vet tranquelize her first. Some horses, like my old guy, fight it. My next one will be shot.
Here it is around $80 to have a vet euthanize a horse, then from there we have the option of burial (allowed on our land, costs us about $45 for the backhoe), dead stock removal truck which was free prior to BSE, then cost $30, or cremation if you haul the horse to the crematorium 100 miles from here–cost of that is close to $1000. Pet cemetary cost a friend $250 for a foal; I’m not sure if the local one would take a full size horse.
There used to be a couple of places that would pick up animals for pet food; the owners would come out, shoot the horse & then haul it away for a total charge of $30. As upsetting as it is, I too prefer to have them shot (provided the shooter knows what he’s doing, & these pet food guys did)–with a well placed bullet I know the horse is dead before he hits the ground. With euthanasia drugs, well, I’m never 100% convinced it is absolutely “instant”.
I’m sorry that you have to be making these decisions. It’s hard enough with an old horse that’s lived a good life; when it’s a young horse, it’s much much worse.
Jingles for the filly.
My vet charged about $130 to euthanize my dear old Fudgeman this summer. A horse/pet cemetary
was about 80 miles away and he’s resting in a peaceful spot. That was $275 including picking his body up.
When my not-yet-then husband had to put his old horse (the barn’s charity case who could no longer be used as a school horse due to seizures)down back in Colorado, the vet was a hunt master at local hunt. We trailered Tex there and left him happily munching some gorgeous alfalfa. The vet was going to put him down and use his remains to feed the hounds. He said he preferred a well-placed gunshot over euthanisa drugs as he thought it was quicker and kinder.
When we got back to the barn, the barn manager
was appalled Tex was munching alfalfa as he wasn’t permitted it. Yoo, we think he can have anything wants at this point. She agreed.
As the OP… I’m still fine with everything being discussed and suggested. There might be some things about which I say “not for me” but heck I’ll even pass those along to my friend. Everything is a matter of personal taste, “stomach”, tolerance, etc.
I don’t think anyone suggesting donating to a hunt was anticipating that the filly would be hunted. Ugh. THAT would push me over the edge!
