why do horses go to the glue factory?
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Animal (origin) glue is made from connective tissue, found in hoofs, bones, tendons, ligaments, and cartilage in vertebrate animals. Horses are good since their hooves are bigger.
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I believe un-domesticated animals have the right to freedom and being in a cage is not humane to them. To be taken from there origin and brought to an unfamiliar area behind bars held captive in a smaller area than there usual habitat and then to be gawked at by onlookers......No I don't think they are happy and I don't think its fair to them...
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Traditional cabinetmaker's glue is made from boiled and purified hooves, and sinews of horses and oxen. In general use there are two types; dark "Scotch" and light "French" sold both in cakes and ground. Glue made from the sinews of old animals is stronger than that made from the young. By soaking a piece of glue in clear water for a day or two the bad quality will dissolve so it can be poured off leaving the good glue swollen ready for preparation.
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I don't think there was any conspiracy  at the Preakness but those gates can be tampered with and I know of a particular incident at a lower class track many years ago.\n\nIt takes a person with a very well trained eye to even notice it but my uncle had a fellow  racetracker with a very keen eye that said he saw the gate of the winner open a split second before the other horses gates opened and that horse won as he was supposed to in a 5 furlong sprint.\nMy uncles horse(the favorite who had won 5 in a row) finished 2nd.\nAnother trainers horse with his own travelling jockey who always rode for him was knocked around by others after they couldn't buy him off like they had tried to.He finished 4th but everyone else heard about the bribe that time.\n\nThe guy with the keen eye could look at a race and tell you almost exactly what had happend and how every horse in the race had performed.\nMy uncle used to ask him to watch his races for him in case he didn't see everthing himself.\n\nBack to the gate.\n\nThey use strong magnets to keep them closed and the starter releases the current when he starts the race.\n\nYou can place a very thin piece of paper between these magnets on any particular gate and when the current is released that gate can open a split second faster than the others.It can't be blatantly obvious or everyone would see it and it would make more of a difference in a short race.\n\nThis would require some advance practice with the gate and the starter but that can and has been done in the morning.\nI am not an expert in exactly how they do this but I was around enough to hear a lot of things.\nI can still remember the names of the key horses and the crook who rode my uncles horse and the guy with the keen eye.\nThey are all dead now but they were exciting times when I was young.\n\nI don't think the magnet trick is a common occurence but I do know that there are many crooked things that happen at All levels of racing but it is more common at the smaller tracks.\n\nA horse can break through the gate and it is fairly commom.
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I don't have a picture but I can help you picture it in your head. For competition think of a field of wildflowers. The ones that survive have to be able to grow taller than the rest in order to get more sunshine. Then by being taller and getting more sunshine they overtake the other flowers which can no longer reach the light. It is a competition for survival, for sunlight. For parasitism try thinking of of a skinny sick horse grazing in a field. He has a worm in his belly that eats whatever that horse eats in order to stay alive. The worm cannot survive without the horse but as long as that worm survives the horse cannot thrive. All that horse does is feed that parasite and get sicker and sicker until they both die. The parasite is paradoxical because by thriving it kills its means of survival. Hope that helps!
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It would be cruel to NOT let them do that. Thats what they WANT to do. Thats what they LIVE for. And everyone of them WANTS to be the BEST.\nI bought a Thouroghbred who retired and there was no way I could keep that horse from wanting to run and run. This is instinct to them.
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Equus asinus an inteligent and some times stuborn animal.They are smarter then horses and therefore less willing to be lead into situations you can easily leed a horse in .UNSTABLE ground and steep unsafe passages are to risky to travel over so donkeys often prefere not to and in so doing often saved there owners. Where horses where as dumb as there owners and often ended up injured or killed by there riders and so where many riders .\nTHIS lead to a more inteligent donkey purchased by a more inteligent person ,they lived and stupid people and horses passed away in accidents by going places they should'nt.\nDonkeys are hard working inteligent animals with a strong work ethic they are trusted around children and often seen at circuses and fairs gentle creatures who children love to ride.They are safer then ponys and the choice of circus managers as the choice of animal safist to ride.\nBill clinton was safe to ride and often caught up in conteversy over this .Impeached he was later found to be innocent of all charges BILL only took us in to battle when it was safe to do so and supported by many nations with a clear plan of attack  and withdrawl of troops .he guided us on a safe path often slow to move but once he got going moved quickly and deciesivly along a direct path.\nSo donkeys and bill clintons are inteligent hard  working and some times cautious often thought to be stuborn when in reality carefully examine the situation before leaping in like some-horses a$$. what does a horses hind end and geeorge Bush have in common?
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While racing can improve a horses physical condition, it also puts joints and limbs under stress they wouldn't normally endure--just like runners, horses can have joint problems from repeated impact.\n\nBut this this aside, it's how they're treated before and after the race that's equally (if not more) important.  Race horses are not (usually) pet horses.  And while trainers want to keep racers in the best condition, they don't get the love and comraderie that pet horses enjoy.\n\nIn addition, race horses' careers are limited.  Many race horse owners send their horses to the glue factory when horses retire.  This is because racers are not suitable for pleasure riding (usually) and therefore can't be given away to a family looking for a horse.  The other alternative--the horse version of long-term elderly care--is too expensive for most horse owners.
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im gonna go with the duck sized horses, if they worked together they could kick the giant duck into submission with their tiny hooves
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horses have a different health needs so no, it wont be safe just because they use it on horses.
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Because they are perfectly designed for their environment as it is. It's amazing how animals are built with everything they need to survive where they are.
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SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT THAT ACCIDENT WITH THE HORSE. THE SCREWS NEED TO BE REMOVED BECAUSE THEY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THEIR PURPSE AND NO LONGER ARE NEEDED.\nTHE HEALING HAS TAKEN PLACE!
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The horses don't seem to mind.
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The 15 feet long rope is tied to the neck of the horse but its other end is loose. The horse can wander without any restrictions.\n:)\n\n*EDIT*\nTo answer the riddle posted below by deakosha, the old man suggested the sons to SWITCH HORSES!
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saddle blocks are used on the area that would hit the saddle on a horse.
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horse hooves are for glue, not soap.  what we now call soap was originally made made by mixing rendered (melted) animal fat or olive oil with lye (lye occures naturally in wood ash).\nMost modern soaps aren't really soap, they're detergents made from petroleum.
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This is probably a reference to the fact that when riding in a horse drawn buggy to make the horse stop you hold the reins so that holding your houses would actually cause them to wait.