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What happens to the wild horses if no one buys them?

Ok so I want to adopt a wild mustang from the BLM and it says the bidding ends in 7 days so I was wondering what happens to the horses that don't get adopted by then? I have seen websites and videos that say the horses are euthanized or sent to slaughter but they are very old so I don't know if that is still what happens to them.

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they are sent to slaughter houses and turned into puppy food. sad, I know ):
A lot of mustangs wind up being shipped to Canada and Mexico and are slaughtered, their meat is shipped to Europe and Japan. There are just too many mustangs, and this is the only reasonable way to manage them. By the way, with the economy in such a bad way there are so many horses that are broke and have been someones pets their whole lives that are better adoption candidates then a mustang. If you really want to help a worthy horse, go to your local horse auction and get a horse there. You really will be saving a life. A lot of young and healthy horses go through auctions and wind up on the dinner table in Europe.
No they aren't euthanized or sent to slaughter! http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/wild_horse_and_burro/adoption_of_wild_horses.html These horses make wonderful pets if you have the time to put into them.
Most due to public pressure were simply penned in corrals. The BLM was going to start euthanizing again but I do not know if public pressure prevented it this time or not. What I do know is that very few people actually want a mustang on their place. Not one of these anyways. These are wild animals whose only exposure to people is when they were caught. Thus their first experience was horrendous. BLM mustangs have not been worked with much when you get them at the auction. They are still wild and dangerous when you get them home. Unless you know how to handle such horses leave them ALONE. (And by know how to handle such horses I mean that you personally have had lots of experience with training wild horses not that you have experience with one already trained) They can and will KILL you.
Usually they are kept in holding pens foe a while. Not a great place to be either and then often euthanized or shipped to slaughter. The BLM is trying to eradicate the mustangs to cater to the cattle ranchers.
some could be killed. because most ranchers don't like them on there property. why? Idk.
Just what you suspected- the horses are put down or packed on trucks and sent to Canada to be sold as meat, if they are not adopted by the time limit the BLM has set. This is sad, I know, but it's a consequence of a lot of different factors coming together. America's wild horse and burro population is under seige right now, and is threatened by many of the same pressures which threaten domesticated horses. There is no market any more for domesticated horses, never mind wild ones- and the federal ban on horse slaughter has meant that unwanted horses are being abandoned in record numbers these days, because people can't afford to feed them and there is no market in which to sell them.The numbers of horses which are being put on cattle trucks and sent to Canada and Mexico has QUADRUPLED in many places, and there is no sign that this is going to change anytime soon. The US is in the middle of the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930's, and the ENTIRE HORSE INDUSTRY has been HIT HARD by this. People are losing their jobs and their homes right and left these days, and a lot of horse owners who were living close to the poverty line ( and there were many of them) are being forced to choose between feeding their kids, paying the mortgages on their homes, and feeding their horses- and in situations like THAT, the horses are ALWAYS GOING TO LOSE, no matter what. Human life ALWAYS takes precedence over the lives of ANY ANIMALS, including horses. This has been true since the dawn of time, and it will continue to be true, because horses are considered to be LIVESTOCK, not pets or playthings. That's how they are classifed under the laws of all 50 states.The ban on slaughter, which I mentioned a moment ago, has only made things worse, because it means that horse owners of limited means have very few choices when deciding how to rid themselves of animals they no longer can afford to keep. Euthanasia is an option in some cases, but it's EXPENSIVE- and there are also the disposal costs to consider once the job is done. These costs, which can run into the hundreds of dollars, are simply too much for many people to bear- and since the great majority of horse owners are not independently wealthy, hiring someone to come and take their unwanted stock and ship it to Canada as meat is beyond them as well. The only remaining options are either to turn the horses loose and hope for the best, or leave the animals in a feedlot somewhere to slowly starve or die of disease or injuries. In the case of wild horses, the BLM has been hit hard too. This agency, which is part of the Department of the Interior, is understaffed and underfunded- and this shows up in a lot of different ways. The BLM can't afford to feed all the mustangs which currently roam the rangelands out West, and has had to resort to roundups and controlled hunting to bring the population of these horses back down to a manageable level. These hunts have attracted a fair amount of negative publicity- but the BLM HAS NO OTHER CHOICE except to use this tactic right now. Most of the prime hay producing areas in the US have experienced a severe drought for the last few seasons, which in turn has led to crop failures and a nationwide hay shortage. What hay is available is VERY EXPENSIVE, and agencies like the BLM simply don't have the funding to be able to buy it on the kind of scale which is needed to support the horse herds and keep them healthy in the winter. Hence the hunts and roundups- and the stories you've heard about horses being held in holding pens for indefinite periods of time, or being sent to slaughter. It's not that the people who run the BLM are cruel- far from it. It's just that there are FAR MORE ANIMALS than there are homes and resources available for them, and euthanasia or sending the horses to slaughter is preferable to letting them starve or die of disease. Another thing- wild Mustangs are just that- they are WILD ANIMALS.They have never been handled by people, and learn as foals to consider humans as threats, NOT as friends. Any horse you adopt from the BLM will most likely have NO experience at all with people, except when he or she was rounded up and caught- and the memory of that will be very traumatic. Do you have the experience to HANDLE and work with a wild, often DANGEROUS animal which is subject to panic and worse at any time? Have you ever worked with a wild horse before? If you answered no to either of these questions, then adopting a Mustang is NOT the way to go.
The BLM would never do that! My grandma used to work with the wild horses and usualy they just keep them and lower their prices drastically until someone does adopt. The BLM is totally against just anything happening to those horses. You have to go through back ground checks, they will come inspect the facility where you will be keeping the horse, and the list goes on and on. I don't know what idiot made that video but they obviously do not understand the whole concept of trying to adopt them out in the first place! Try not to worry about those horses more than likely they will go to a sanctuary and be able to live practicaly the same life they had before. Happy Trails!
Most will go to slaughter or be euthanized. I don't really agree with that, but what other option would we have? If we turned them loose again, the mustang population would just become overpopulated and mustangs would starve. I am not positive, but in Australia I heard that they are starting to catch Brumby stallions and geld them, then turning them loose again. They wont be able to breed. Now of course they wont be able to catch ALL the stallions, so there will still be some breeding, but it will be significantly less and the Brumbys population will decrease to a controlled level. I think if it works, the idea sounds pretty brilliant. I do wonder about the structure of some of the herds falling apart though... since stallions tend to help hold it together. I agree with Jeff Sadler, they are very dangerous, and due to instinct will NOT hesitate to strike, kick, bite, or trample you if they feel threatened at any given moment. BUT some of the Mustangs are offered for adoption already broke to ride. So if you are a very experienced rider and have dealt with problem horses, I think it would be okay to adopt one of those.