Horse hunting

[skybusterbo]

Coming home from Oregon after Thanksgiving my wife and I counted over 85 between Satus pass and Toppenish. I've traveled hwy 97 many times and never seen so many. They are cool to see but someone will get hurt when one of them gets hit by a car. If they had horns and they were worth something. I'm sure the Yakima's would be out today shooting them too.  There's an idea....subsistence hunting on the rez.......hummmmmm why not!!!

[Grizzly95]

I will ask my Uncle, he is Yakima Indian; maybe he would try it. I heard in Europe the horse meat is a delicacy.

[Gobble]

does it taste good? Always wanted to try some but have never had the chance. think i can get away with hanging a horse up in the backyard?

I have never eaten horse meat but I would guess that it would be similar to elk.  And sure, I think you could hang a horse up in your back yard, no problem! However if it were me I'd bring it home in pieces like I do my elk.

When I was a kid my mom picked some horse meat up at the Pike Place market and we tried it to see what it tastes like, it was just like beef if I remember right. My 15 yr old rode a wild mustang owned by RhinoRon's that was cuaght in arizona this past elk season, it's a great horse.

[Grizzly95]

My uncle said that when you break a wild horse it will always be broke, something about breaking the spirit of the horse. Maybe an indian thing.

[robb92]

I had horse meat when I was in Italy for an airshow, wasn't to bad, tasted like a cross between elk and beef.

[Kent Hunter]

We ate ALOT of horse meat when I was a kid. The Pike Place Market (Farmers Market) in downtown Seattle had a horse meat butcher shop in the market and horse meat was alot cheaper than beef. It tastes just fine. Pretty good actually.

[PolarBear]

We did the round-up and adopted 2 wild horses many years ago and had to put them down because they were unmanageable and could not even give them away.  Schorno Agribusiness in Yelm raises and sell draft horses for meat.  They ship them live to China, Japan, etc.  Theire is some good money in exporting meat horses, maybe the state should try that, offset their costs and possibly make some coin?   

[Head-shot]

I had horse meat when I was in Italy for an airshow, wasn't to bad, tasted like a cross between elk and beef.

I was going to say the same thing. I ate it all the time in Sardinia. It is pretty lean, really tender. Was grilled and then smothered in a red wine sauce with wild mushrooms, onions and garlic. It was BIG too! Washed it down with a really good red table wine. Very tasty.

[fc2038]

it has almost financially broke BLM

I could see that, a friend of mine has 2 wild horses he got from the BLM program and they send vets out randomly to do check ups on the animals and make sure they are being cared for properly. Now if the state would do that with the children put in foster homes or left with cracked out parents maybe we wouldn't see all the abuse in the news.

[Pathfinder101]

can you imagine the 60 minutes special when someone figures out that the state of Washington is catching horseys and selling them to China for meat?  Forget the 60 Minutes Special... can you imagine the movie that hollywood would make about it?  Halley Barry would play Cynthia McKinney headed to China in a rowboat with George Clooney and Matt Damon (her bodyguards) to save a shipfull of dancing Lippizaners after she goes postal on the Department of Fish and Game office in Olympia...

This state voted to "save" cougars and bears from the evil hound hunters ... and people are actually scared of cougars and bears...

[skybusterbo]

can you imagine the 60 minutes special when someone figures out that the state of Washington is catching horseys and selling them to China for meat?  Forget the 60 Minutes Special... can you imagine the movie that hollywood would make about it?  Halley Barry would play Cynthia McKinney headed to China in a rowboat with George Clooney and Matt Damon (her bodyguards) to save a shipfull of dancing Lippizaners after she goes postal on the Department of Fish and Game office in Olympia...

This state voted to "save" cougars and bears from the evil hound hunters ... and people are actually scared of cougars and bears...

:chuckle:Your right, I could see it now. Motion picture of the year. Best actres,best actor,best supporting actor,throw in a Broke back mt. subplot and it would be best movie of all time. Of coarse Halley Barry would have to have a couple of nude senses. :chuckle:

[farmin4u_98948]

The Yakama Nation has not renewed many of the cattle range leases on the closed part of the reservation. This land is now over run by horses. What you see from Hwy 97 is a small look at what is on the upper benches to the east and west of the Hwy. The wild horses are now so inbred that the frames are small, thin and huge headed with little value on the kill market. Horses from Warm Springs are very well managed for size and frame. To Indians the horses are part of a culture that links to the past. How wealthy are you...        I have many ponies..

[7mmfan]

Coming home from Oregon after Thanksgiving my wife and I counted over 85 between Satus pass and Toppenish. I've traveled hwy 97 many times and never seen so many. They are cool to see but someone will get hurt when one of them gets hit by a car. If they had horns and they were worth something. I'm sure the Yakima's would be out today shooting them too.  There's an idea....subsistence hunting on the rez.......hummmmmm why not!!!

The part about subsistence hunting ON THE REZ!

[runamuk]

We did the round-up and adopted 2 wild horses many years ago and had to put them down because they were unmanageable and could not even give them away.  Schorno Agribusiness in Yelm raises and sell draft horses for meat.  They ship them live to China, Japan, etc.  Theire is some good money in exporting meat horses, maybe the state should try that, offset their costs and possibly make some coin?   

Actually the legislation is sitting in some committee to ban ALL export of live horses for human consumption...just fyi..

[mossback91]

 I dont understand why someone would have such a problem with slaughtering a horse!!!