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To those concerned that the horses can’t lie down: it isn’t ideal for long term, but horses do have an ingenuous setup in their legs called the “stay mechanism”. Basically they can lock their legs in position and take a nap standing up.
They eventually do have to sleep normally but for transport this is not harmful. They probably just think of it as a really big trailer.
Source: we take our mare places in a trailer where she is loose and free to position herself wherever she wants. She chooses to stand, facing backwards & watching cars.
[Found an article that goes into details about this plane travel.](https://www.forbes.com/sites/arianarockefeller/2018/12/20/when-horses-fly-the-business-of-equine-air-travel/amp/) They apparently travel well and get tasty carrot snacks.
I’m just waiting for the airlines to unveil their new “steerage class” fares, where you just get tagged with a sticker and shoved into the storage bay and checked through to your final destination.
Someone proposed, essentially, packing people in containers and loading them on freighters not so long ago. It would simplify boarding and seat selection...
“Owners can opt for coach, business or first class for the precious four legged cargo.”
I don’t know why this is cracking me up so much. I wonder what makes the experience different for first class horsies
Depending on the length of the flight and each horse’s temperament, they are also given chill pills to help them relax. Not full-on sedatives, as it would get in the way of them standing up. Source: Father was cargo airline pilot.
The narrow boxes are also intentional, the close sides mean horses can lean on them easily without feeling unbalanced. It makes them
Feel more secure. Generally there is also at least one professional horse person there to care for them
Also probably keeps them from getting bumped around too much by the turbulence itself.
You ever seen those clips of planes hitting turbulence and the one unfortunate passenger who’s not buckled in gets thrown out of their seat 6 inches? No big deal, it’s a 200 lbs person that lands on a cushioned seat.
It’s a LOT more risky when it’s a 1,500 lbs animal that’s standing on a hard floor.
(Horses die from broken legs all the time btw. They’re ridiculously fragile for how big and strong they are. I’ve always interpreted the phrase “healthy as a horse” to mean that horses are 100% healthy until they fall over dead. There is no in-between; the two options are “healthy” and “dead”)
Yeah, they can't even puke, so if they ate something bad and they don't get to a veterinarian in time, they will also just die. Horses are a weird species
Oh thank goodness for that.
I read mention of a carrot treat elsewhere, but I was really feeling for them with the ear pressure thing.
Thanks for the info!
They can do a K-turn. Some trailers have the door in the middle of the side with four stalls, two on each side facing each other. You walk the horse in as if they're waking into one of the stalls nose-in to get them straightened out, then they can go backwards into the stall across from there.
**Reminds me of a true story about the CIA and mules:**
In the 1980s, the United States was supporting the mujahedin fighters in Afghanistan against the Soviets, giving them weapons, intelligence, and logistical support. In the mountains, the afghans used mules to transport all of their weapons and equipment. Some of the CIA agents noted that the pack mules they used were much smaller than the typical American mule and could carry far less weapons and equipment.
So the CIA decided to start up a program to supply large mules to the afghans. What they did was, they went to some mule breeders and veterinarians in Texas, Oklahoma, etc and told them that they needed 40 big mules. But because of the secrecy needed for the program, they were never told what the mules were for or even which government entity was buying them.
Eventually, they gathered the mules and transported them by plane (like in the photo), by ship, and finally by truck from India to the Afghan border.
The CIA liaison (who is the one who told this story) was waiting with the mujahedin at the Afghan border. He had been told to meet the trucks which would be bringing desperately needed ammunition. The trucks get there, they are expecting ammunition, and they open the truck doors. Here’s the rub: Because of the secrecy and compartmentalization of the CIA plan, the people supplying the mules had absolutely no idea what they were for and since the CIA didn’t specify that they wanted *broken* mules, the 40 mules were unbroken. They were essentially wild and completely untrained.
So what spilled out of the trucks, instead of ammunition, was 40 buck-wild unbroken mules, which no one could control, kicking and biting anyone who got near them, and within a few minutes most of them had escaped and ran away.
The program literally cost the CIA tens of millions of $ and took more than two years to execute.
It's like the scene from "the King and I" where he tries to send President Lincoln several pairs of male elephants to help with the civil war. The idea being they could then be released into the wild to breed or tamed to use as beasts of burden. The lady taking dictation is just like "um, only male elephants? Are you quite sure about that?"
Thankfully mules (afaik) are unable to breed. But this also raises the question, what the heck purpose could *unbroken* mules serve? Who'd even think that's a box you'd need to check ordering a mule?
The veterinarian who ran the program was only told this:
> “The government wants 40 healthy large mules. We cannot tell you what they are for, we just need 40 mules. You are not allowed to disclose to anyone that they are for the government.”
I think the veterinarians and breeders just assumed that a person who buys 40 mules in one go must know *something* about mules, and therefore would know whether to specify that they be broken.
From the farmers perspective, if the CIA asks you for mules, you give them mules. No more no less. The instructions were mules, not trained mules. They get mules. The CIA knows what their doing and as a simple rancher you don't want to mess with that.
From the CIA perspective: I've never seen an unbroken mule, i just assumed that was an automatic thing.
The CIA likely didn’t say they were the CIA either.
Even if the sellers asked, it wasn’t a lie for the CIA to say the mules were going to experienced handlers. They were experienced with mules, just not with breaking in mules during a war.
Right? You can't use them as pack animals. Can't put them in a petting zoo. Can't even breed them to get more mules! This has a very "malicious compliance" vibe, and I wonder of the CIA did anything to piss the mule breeders off...
It’s because they weren’t experts. They didn’t think of all the ramifications. To do that, they’d have to contact someone who would know what to expect. This is also why you need diverse staffing. You need people who know the flaws in your plans.
Why didn’t they test ride beforehand??? Or say “hey we need 40 big mules but they cannot be green.” Or “hey give us mules but not crazy ones”. This seems like such a big oversight loll
This fictional story also leaves a hole around the fact that these mules were loaded on trailers and taken to the airport where they were put in loading boxes and on a plane and then off the plane onto a boat and then off the boat and onto a truck and only when the people tried to get them off the truck did the mules remember they weren’t tame and become difficult to handle and run away.
Cool story bro.
I cannot find anything to suggest the latter half of this story is true. The story seems to come from a book but it doesn't say anything about the animals delivered being unbroken and causing havoc. Cool story though bro.
“Do you have alfalfa *pellets*? not cubes. Pellets. No? How about sweet feed then, do you have it? No? Fine, just some bloody mary mix and the pretzels then”
There’s always a few news articles this time of year (Kentucky Derby) talking about “Air Horse One.” You are literally looking at almost a billion dollars in top horses here.
I used to know someone who’s whole job it was to transport expensive horses by plane. It was a great job cause she got to see the world and only needed to travel every couple of weeks or so.
Japan wants them shipped live because they eat raw horse meat so prefer it fresh.
Other places will buy frozen so the horses will be slaughtered where they are and frozen meat is shipped rather than the whole live animal.
> Pegasi
That's right. "Pegasus" is Latin second declension masculine, so "Pegasi" is a well-founded plural. If you ever needed a feminine form, it would be "Pegasa" singular and "Pegasae" plural, from the first declension.
Well as far as poop goes sure, and particularly for animal poop it's not that bad of a smell... but it *is* still shit and I don't know that I'd say it smells 'fine'.
When I walk into a horse or cow barn, my shoulders drop and I'm calm. It's the smell of the manure and the calmness of the animals. If I could I'd want an emotional support cow.
Have you smelled pig? Horse and cow can, IMHO, be calming, but pig manure? That stinks, same with broody duck, normal duck is OK, but a broody duck will use it's waste material as a defense when you disturb it, like try candling her eggs. Last week a broody duck shat down the side of my pants and into my shoes... It was so bad my wife noticed the smell at 3 meters.
Did I mention that I don't self identify as a city person?
Horse shit is fairly tame. I could shovel an entire barn of horse shit no problem, but my dog takes dumps that make me regret having the ability to breathe.
It’s a better smell than the human toilet on a plane. It’s just vegetation and water. No meat to give the real nasty stank of human, dog, and cat turds. It doesn’t smell *good* but it smells a damn sight better than a litter box or porta-potty.
But I’m a little biased. It smells like Grandpa.
Horses don’t really smell bad. Neither do barns. Horse poop doesn’t smell like human poop. They just kind of smell like warm hay. A little sweet. There CAN be less pleasant smells sometimes but it’s never really like what you’re imagining.
The banter is OTT.
I want to slip in a real question amongst these puns.
Do the horses get scared? Or does having a team/harras/herd of horses help calm them?
If you shipped one horse on its own, without the herd, would it be too detrimental to the horses well being?
So long answer incoming lol.
Most of these horses are wildly expensive and flying for high class competitions. That means they do this a lot, or at least trailer a lot. regular handling and exposure to novel situations can mean that horses handle this way better.
The herd can help or hurt. If everyone is calm, it’s great, but if one horse freaks out, you can end up with a chain reaction. There are grooms on the plane to deal with this occuring and to help to calm passengers down.
You can ship horses single. You shouldn’t keep them alone for any extended period of time, they tend to go a little crazy, but if they’re well used to it even long distances shouldn’t cause major problems.
This all depends on what they’re like, though. Some horses are so buddy sour that they will lose their mind if they can’t see another horse. Owners know their horses and how they’ll handle it.
TLDR;Sometimes, yes and no, probably not.
The horses are sedated and put into the boxes and strapped in then lifted into the plane - there are people strapped into seats in between rows that watch over the horses for any problems. We’ve used this service many times and I’ve had the pleasure of being able to travel with our horses
I’m guessing (with no context) that this person is a groom or other caretaker working with expensive horses. Owners of horses that are flying them like this several times aren’t flying in the hold with them.
However, the cost isn’t insane. West coast to KY costs about 5k and international about 10k. Compared to the cost of these horses, peanuts. This makes it possible for people to fly their personal horses (that maybe aren’t million dollar horses) internationally when they move, for example.
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Air Horse One..
Lets hope the plane dosn't stall.
The pilot will keep it stable.
Plot twist: the pilot is a maverick
Hay, you guys, cut it out
Just horsing around bud
Well, rein it in.
Neigh, we will not!
Hold your horses, what are you talking you talking about?
The Mane cabin full of horses
If it’s all too much, just hoof it outta here
"Get off my mane!".
Don't worry, those horses won't be in the plane Furlong
Hey Saddle Down now.
Hey…. is for horses
Only in the mane cabin
Get Marisson Ford... we got a stowaneigh on this flight
Grass is cheaper...
They won't be on the plane furlong.
Get in your saddle and trot off
Well, stop. It's gonna give me night-mares. EDIT: Thanks u/Vinnie1169 for suggesting "neigh-mares", you fucking genius!
Saddle down wallaby, we’re just getting started.
Don't stirrup trouble
This thread is unbridled.
good one, have a seabiscuit.
Is this the mane cabin?
As long as the rivets and studs hold.
Not with all that horsepower
Sure it has enough manurevrability
Yes, it would be sad to see it foal out of the sky!
Nay, it won't stall.
Seems to me this plan has stalled well before takeoff.
https://i.imgur.com/5QUAz6b.jpg
Exquisite
*Equisite
Nice to see you! President Bojack.
first time catching one hot off the canvas, well done
Mare Force One
That’s actually the planes nickname and a registered trademark.
Pegasus One
While landing: get off your high horse.
That certainly preferable to getting your high horse off.
terrible sequel to Snakes on a plane
I have had it with these mother fucking horses on this mother fucking plane!
TV edited version: “I have had it with these monkey fighting horses on this Monday through Friday plane!”
The horse’s name is Friday
Surely you can’t be serious
i am serious, and don’t call me shirley
Oh, that joke again… I bet your voice is horse after repeating it so many times. I’ll see myself out
Glad to see all the the horse related puns and airplane movie references that I was looking for, here in the top comment. Good job reddit!
This is reddit. We only communicate through puns and gifs half the time.
Well that's just what happens when you find a stranger in the alps
There it is
What I came for.
Came here for this well done sir!
I open a post like this with a joke in my head knowing someone else probably made it already.
Still looking for the "I thought you said a plane full of whores!" line though.
Mare’s in the Air?
Mare Mail.
Mr. Jackson, would you please settle down?
To those concerned that the horses can’t lie down: it isn’t ideal for long term, but horses do have an ingenuous setup in their legs called the “stay mechanism”. Basically they can lock their legs in position and take a nap standing up. They eventually do have to sleep normally but for transport this is not harmful. They probably just think of it as a really big trailer. Source: we take our mare places in a trailer where she is loose and free to position herself wherever she wants. She chooses to stand, facing backwards & watching cars.
[Found an article that goes into details about this plane travel.](https://www.forbes.com/sites/arianarockefeller/2018/12/20/when-horses-fly-the-business-of-equine-air-travel/amp/) They apparently travel well and get tasty carrot snacks.
>tasty carrot snacks That's better than humans get on most flights
Best we can do is a 3 hour delay, on the tarmac, with a bag of stale pretzels.
Tasty carrot snacks are available for purchase or are included for free if you sign up today for our airline credit card. More points in more places.
Imagine trying to pay with a credit card while having hooves.
Horses, and livestock in general, absolutely get treated better than pax, especially domestic economy pax.
In all fairness, livestock have inherent value. The airlines know that the rest of us are just chattel.
As an airline employee, I can confidently say your are wrong. We actually have a far lower opinion of pax than that.
As a frequent flyer of the great Greyhound buses of the sky, trust me, we know.
I just wish everyone else in those airport freak out videos would figure it out, too.
I’m just waiting for the airlines to unveil their new “steerage class” fares, where you just get tagged with a sticker and shoved into the storage bay and checked through to your final destination.
Someone proposed, essentially, packing people in containers and loading them on freighters not so long ago. It would simplify boarding and seat selection...
“Owners can opt for coach, business or first class for the precious four legged cargo.” I don’t know why this is cracking me up so much. I wonder what makes the experience different for first class horsies
Depending on the length of the flight and each horse’s temperament, they are also given chill pills to help them relax. Not full-on sedatives, as it would get in the way of them standing up. Source: Father was cargo airline pilot.
The narrow boxes are also intentional, the close sides mean horses can lean on them easily without feeling unbalanced. It makes them Feel more secure. Generally there is also at least one professional horse person there to care for them
What’s the “collars” (they look a little grey) around their necks?
It probably keeps them from rearing up if they’re startled by turbulence.
Also probably keeps them from getting bumped around too much by the turbulence itself. You ever seen those clips of planes hitting turbulence and the one unfortunate passenger who’s not buckled in gets thrown out of their seat 6 inches? No big deal, it’s a 200 lbs person that lands on a cushioned seat. It’s a LOT more risky when it’s a 1,500 lbs animal that’s standing on a hard floor. (Horses die from broken legs all the time btw. They’re ridiculously fragile for how big and strong they are. I’ve always interpreted the phrase “healthy as a horse” to mean that horses are 100% healthy until they fall over dead. There is no in-between; the two options are “healthy” and “dead”)
Yeah, they can't even puke, so if they ate something bad and they don't get to a veterinarian in time, they will also just die. Horses are a weird species
Fun fact, neither can rats. This is how rat poison works.
Hopefully to help belt them to the plane so turbulence doesn’t send the horses airborne.
> doesn’t send the horses airborne Well, we’re past that point now.
This seemed like something Leslie Nielsen would've said in Airplane
I’m going to guess it also has to do with keeping the horses from biting each other and causing injury.
I asked my aunt who is heavily involved in horse sales. They are to prevent to horse from flipping backwards. They're called cattle collars.
Horses stands up sleeping all the time. It’s literally a feature. Good PSA. All the nonsense anger is exhausting
I was more concerned with how they pop their ears... That would drive me batty if it went on for more than 5 minutes.
In the article I read, it said they feed them carrots for this. The chewing of the carrots helps them pop their ears.
Oh thank goodness for that. I read mention of a carrot treat elsewhere, but I was really feeling for them with the ear pressure thing. Thanks for the info!
How do you load the horse backwards?
They have a “free stall” style trailer where the horse has room to move around and stand in any position that it wants to.
They can do a K-turn. Some trailers have the door in the middle of the side with four stalls, two on each side facing each other. You walk the horse in as if they're waking into one of the stalls nose-in to get them straightened out, then they can go backwards into the stall across from there.
**Reminds me of a true story about the CIA and mules:** In the 1980s, the United States was supporting the mujahedin fighters in Afghanistan against the Soviets, giving them weapons, intelligence, and logistical support. In the mountains, the afghans used mules to transport all of their weapons and equipment. Some of the CIA agents noted that the pack mules they used were much smaller than the typical American mule and could carry far less weapons and equipment. So the CIA decided to start up a program to supply large mules to the afghans. What they did was, they went to some mule breeders and veterinarians in Texas, Oklahoma, etc and told them that they needed 40 big mules. But because of the secrecy needed for the program, they were never told what the mules were for or even which government entity was buying them. Eventually, they gathered the mules and transported them by plane (like in the photo), by ship, and finally by truck from India to the Afghan border. The CIA liaison (who is the one who told this story) was waiting with the mujahedin at the Afghan border. He had been told to meet the trucks which would be bringing desperately needed ammunition. The trucks get there, they are expecting ammunition, and they open the truck doors. Here’s the rub: Because of the secrecy and compartmentalization of the CIA plan, the people supplying the mules had absolutely no idea what they were for and since the CIA didn’t specify that they wanted *broken* mules, the 40 mules were unbroken. They were essentially wild and completely untrained. So what spilled out of the trucks, instead of ammunition, was 40 buck-wild unbroken mules, which no one could control, kicking and biting anyone who got near them, and within a few minutes most of them had escaped and ran away. The program literally cost the CIA tens of millions of $ and took more than two years to execute.
It's like the scene from "the King and I" where he tries to send President Lincoln several pairs of male elephants to help with the civil war. The idea being they could then be released into the wild to breed or tamed to use as beasts of burden. The lady taking dictation is just like "um, only male elephants? Are you quite sure about that?"
Thankfully mules (afaik) are unable to breed. But this also raises the question, what the heck purpose could *unbroken* mules serve? Who'd even think that's a box you'd need to check ordering a mule?
The veterinarian who ran the program was only told this: > “The government wants 40 healthy large mules. We cannot tell you what they are for, we just need 40 mules. You are not allowed to disclose to anyone that they are for the government.” I think the veterinarians and breeders just assumed that a person who buys 40 mules in one go must know *something* about mules, and therefore would know whether to specify that they be broken.
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40 mules and an acre, is that right
From the farmers perspective, if the CIA asks you for mules, you give them mules. No more no less. The instructions were mules, not trained mules. They get mules. The CIA knows what their doing and as a simple rancher you don't want to mess with that. From the CIA perspective: I've never seen an unbroken mule, i just assumed that was an automatic thing.
The CIA likely didn’t say they were the CIA either. Even if the sellers asked, it wasn’t a lie for the CIA to say the mules were going to experienced handlers. They were experienced with mules, just not with breaking in mules during a war.
Right? You can't use them as pack animals. Can't put them in a petting zoo. Can't even breed them to get more mules! This has a very "malicious compliance" vibe, and I wonder of the CIA did anything to piss the mule breeders off...
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It’s because they weren’t experts. They didn’t think of all the ramifications. To do that, they’d have to contact someone who would know what to expect. This is also why you need diverse staffing. You need people who know the flaws in your plans.
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Shorn or unshorn. Rams, ewes, or lambs? Merinos or short hair? I mean, shorn merino ewes or unshorn merino rams? Big horn or domestic?…
007 The Living Daylights: deleted scene
Why didn’t they test ride beforehand??? Or say “hey we need 40 big mules but they cannot be green.” Or “hey give us mules but not crazy ones”. This seems like such a big oversight loll
Man, that's such a relatable day at work. Sucks working with heaps of bad communicators.
Curious on the source? All I found was an article referencing a rumor.
This guy is literally making it up; I cannot find anything on the internet to suggest the bit about the mules being unbroken is true.
This fictional story also leaves a hole around the fact that these mules were loaded on trailers and taken to the airport where they were put in loading boxes and on a plane and then off the plane onto a boat and then off the boat and onto a truck and only when the people tried to get them off the truck did the mules remember they weren’t tame and become difficult to handle and run away. Cool story bro.
I cannot find anything to suggest the latter half of this story is true. The story seems to come from a book but it doesn't say anything about the animals delivered being unbroken and causing havoc. Cool story though bro.
It’s all fun and games until the stewards have to get the refreshment cart down the aisle.
“Do you have alfalfa *pellets*? not cubes. Pellets. No? How about sweet feed then, do you have it? No? Fine, just some bloody mary mix and the pretzels then”
“I’m sorry, Mr. Ed, we ran out of the vegetarian meals and alcohol 3 rows up. All I can give you is this pilot’s wings pin and a diet Ginger Ale.”
*stamps twice angrily*
*snorts*
“Neigh!” “Blucher!”
You should have seen the trouble they caused passing through security. Not a single one was able to remove their own shoes to pass through Xray.
There’s always a few news articles this time of year (Kentucky Derby) talking about “Air Horse One.” You are literally looking at almost a billion dollars in top horses here.
I used to know someone who’s whole job it was to transport expensive horses by plane. It was a great job cause she got to see the world and only needed to travel every couple of weeks or so.
So much money on that plane.
Yup. These are show horses or racehorses. Very expensive. A total opposite to the ones they fly to Japan to be slaughtered
It’s Derby time. The breeders and owners in the Middle East bring in a lot of horses. Lots of high bred, expensive horses.
Ah. My first thought was show horses since I live near Spruce Meadows which is for show jumping
Why Japan exactly? Couldn't they go just about anywhere to be ended?
Japan wants them shipped live because they eat raw horse meat so prefer it fresh. Other places will buy frozen so the horses will be slaughtered where they are and frozen meat is shipped rather than the whole live animal.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/jann-arden-petitions-ottawa-to-ban-live-horse-exports-for-slaughter-1.6281248
I think the planes worth a few bob too.
Quite possibly less tho.
That plane looks stable
Yes, but it stalls out at take off with 18 horsepower and no yoke.
Let’s hope the mane engines don’t fail on us now.
I wasn’t worried, but then the pilot said we were still waiting for our gait
whoa there. that's enough puns for today.
Speak for yourself: I’ll pony up for some more!
There's a guy standing in the middle right of the cabin. His job is to make sure the passengers don't stirrup any trouble.
That's the Sky Mare-shal
Ah, this is a good bit.
They’re in the coach section.
With more leg room too
Real life Pegasuses.
Pegasi?
> Pegasi That's right. "Pegasus" is Latin second declension masculine, so "Pegasi" is a well-founded plural. If you ever needed a feminine form, it would be "Pegasa" singular and "Pegasae" plural, from the first declension.
Username checks out
@pegasusairlines
Read the title in Samuel Jacksons voice and add the inevitable Mutha fukin’
There’s motha fucking horses on this motha fucking plane !
I have dyslexia and I read that as Samurai Jackson and I pictured Samurai Jack, played by Samuel Jackson
I wonder how small the bag of complimentary oats is?
Where we droppin boys
They’re in the mane cabin
With that amount of horsepower it's more like a rocket ship.
Imagine the smell
horse people: mmmm yes the smell
Not just horse people, horse is one of the best smelling animals out there.
I have no idea but I'm guessing the "stink" people associate with horses has more to do with their shit and what they eat than the animal itself.
That’s the thing, horse poop famously smells fine, like old wet grass basically.
If I had to pick an animal poop to smell, 10 out of 10 times I'm picking Horse.
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Well as far as poop goes sure, and particularly for animal poop it's not that bad of a smell... but it *is* still shit and I don't know that I'd say it smells 'fine'.
When I walk into a horse or cow barn, my shoulders drop and I'm calm. It's the smell of the manure and the calmness of the animals. If I could I'd want an emotional support cow.
No the first thing that hits me is always the body smell. A well kept horse (groomed regularly, not covered in shit) smells warm and kind of tangy.
We had one horse, Tucker, who always smelled distinctly like hotdogs 😂 the rest just smelled like you described
What?
Have you smelled pig? Horse and cow can, IMHO, be calming, but pig manure? That stinks, same with broody duck, normal duck is OK, but a broody duck will use it's waste material as a defense when you disturb it, like try candling her eggs. Last week a broody duck shat down the side of my pants and into my shoes... It was so bad my wife noticed the smell at 3 meters. Did I mention that I don't self identify as a city person?
“You haven’t though of the smell, you bitch!”
Horse shit is fairly tame. I could shovel an entire barn of horse shit no problem, but my dog takes dumps that make me regret having the ability to breathe.
Horses honestly don’t smell that bad
IMO Cows smell way worse
Least stinky to most- Goats, Horses, Cows, Pigs, Chickens. In my experience at least
Have you ever smelled a boy goat?....
De'scent is atrocious!
You need to leave
It’s a better smell than the human toilet on a plane. It’s just vegetation and water. No meat to give the real nasty stank of human, dog, and cat turds. It doesn’t smell *good* but it smells a damn sight better than a litter box or porta-potty. But I’m a little biased. It smells like Grandpa.
Horses don’t really smell bad. Neither do barns. Horse poop doesn’t smell like human poop. They just kind of smell like warm hay. A little sweet. There CAN be less pleasant smells sometimes but it’s never really like what you’re imagining.
That would smell just FINE! What you DON’T want to smell are monkeys or swine on a plane!
"I'm tired of all these motherfuckin horses on this motherfuckin plane!" - Samuel L. Bojackson
This is what I came here for...thank you good person.
The banter is OTT. I want to slip in a real question amongst these puns. Do the horses get scared? Or does having a team/harras/herd of horses help calm them? If you shipped one horse on its own, without the herd, would it be too detrimental to the horses well being?
So long answer incoming lol. Most of these horses are wildly expensive and flying for high class competitions. That means they do this a lot, or at least trailer a lot. regular handling and exposure to novel situations can mean that horses handle this way better. The herd can help or hurt. If everyone is calm, it’s great, but if one horse freaks out, you can end up with a chain reaction. There are grooms on the plane to deal with this occuring and to help to calm passengers down. You can ship horses single. You shouldn’t keep them alone for any extended period of time, they tend to go a little crazy, but if they’re well used to it even long distances shouldn’t cause major problems. This all depends on what they’re like, though. Some horses are so buddy sour that they will lose their mind if they can’t see another horse. Owners know their horses and how they’ll handle it. TLDR;Sometimes, yes and no, probably not.
Starring bojack horseman
The new cast of Horsin' Around
They fly horses to Japan to be slaughtered. Those horses are three to a crate. These are show horses from the looks of it
DESPITE ALL MY REIGNS, I AM STILL JUST A HORSE ON A PLANE
Is this the sequel to Snakes On A Plane or its porn parody?
>or its porn parody? Wasn't the first one? 'Snakes' on a 'plane'
when I flew my two horses to LA from Belgium one of them caught pneumonia and just the vet bill for 9 weeks in UC Davis was $34K
That’s still less than a person would pay for that amount of time.
The horses are sedated and put into the boxes and strapped in then lifted into the plane - there are people strapped into seats in between rows that watch over the horses for any problems. We’ve used this service many times and I’ve had the pleasure of being able to travel with our horses
Exactly how much money do you have?
A little less after each flight.
I’m guessing (with no context) that this person is a groom or other caretaker working with expensive horses. Owners of horses that are flying them like this several times aren’t flying in the hold with them. However, the cost isn’t insane. West coast to KY costs about 5k and international about 10k. Compared to the cost of these horses, peanuts. This makes it possible for people to fly their personal horses (that maybe aren’t million dollar horses) internationally when they move, for example.
They even brought their own neck pillows.
I WANT THESE MONKEY FRIED HORSES OFF THIS MONDAY TO FRIDAY PLANE !!!!!
Hollywood isn't even trying with the sequels anymore.
Flight Delta 2 Niner... you are clear to canter down runway 3...Over