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Thursday, August 29, 2013
To the Strong Ones
Older Mustang Stallions at the Fallon Livestock Exchange
Scar-linked blood brothersStare through scent memoriesfarFrom sage rain herd-homeLabels: blood brothers, Cat Kindsfather, fallon livestock exchange, photo, stallions Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 11:38 AM 2 comments  
Tuesday, August 20, 2013 THESE LITTLE PONIES WENT TO MARKET   LIVE TWEETING feels like a cross between fast-breaking journalism and haiku poetry. It allows me to cover the most disturbing stories with controlled emotions. Many of YOU were disturbed because you don't know how to Tweet and weren't following the slaughter sale of wild horses on Saturday August 17. Below you can read my liveTweet coverage from Nevada's Fallon Livestock Exchange. If you need clarification of some of my funky abbreviations, just ask. Please forgive me misspellings and non-nimble fingers. I was trying to get the info out as soon as possible. As you may know, Twitter only allows 140 characters (letters, numbers and spaces) in each entry. This is what came before and during the auction. After the auction, hundreds of horses were saved. Hundreds went to slaughter. Tomorrow, we learn the future of the unbranded horses, as decided by a Federal judge. August 17 six a.m.
Come to Fallon livestock exchange. Get a bidding # so u can help search for unbranded
Have been ordered to leave
Sorting mares and goals w hot shot
Lots of neighing Still on property Terri Farley
Guy just came out of
Lots of limping
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Owner
Kill buyers: rallying of the clans 2 combat diminished income. Every buyer I have ever heard about
Sheriff deputies getting sick of auction staff sicc-ing them on advocates using their cell phones...Not shooting photos. Honest
Kill buyers are getting really rude just walking by and sniping at anyone they even suspect of liking horses. @Fallonslaughter
Office still locked. Need bidder # to tour horses . None issued yet? Parents w kids here, trying to explain
Lot of these guys in a quandary: blame Indians or wimmen(no matter that me advocates are here 2)?
Huge HUGE legal fees involved in Got my # to bid Terri Farley
Recharging cell and eating almonds. Should guarantee auction starts. No way am i spending money in
Interview w BBC. Super.Still no auction but more big trucks#fallonslaughter
Finally walking thru pens. Every girls dream horses.
About to start auction.
Arlo of ft McDermitt clarified these are all native horses
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Palomino. Mare and foal sold. 800 dun pony w bay colt 200
Brown mare w buck foal 325 . Appy mom w dark foal 325. Both saved
Interior of auction.looks about the same as one I was able. 2 photo in Jan. Little. Cleaner
Frantic mare and foal sold 225 to killer
Perfect Indian paint w paint baby 300. Palomino and ivory paint with golden foal 300 Terri Farley
Horses are very banged up, face an chest esp. Some so damaged that
Advocates think they should be put down out of humanity
2 orphans. Auctioneer checking w Deniz to see if they can be sold even though unbranded. She said ok but lots of pressure Terri Farley
These beautiful horses are selling for Starbucks money.z
Almost all mares w foals and young horses have been saved. Advocates are really stepping up
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Have a mission: a grandmother wants me to find a young buckling
2 geldings- - paint w black swatches over eyes and his honey palimino buddy- - were in one of the big lots bought by killer
Someone talked the kill buyer into selling her the b n w paint w swatches but buyer didn't take palomino. Kill buyer got a pen of mares and foals why on earth?
Auction over. Horses loading. Most for the better
Labels: Fallon, fallon livestock exchange, horse slaughter, kill buyers, slaughter sale, tribal horses, unbranded horses, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 8:12 PM 1 comments
Friday, August 16, 2013 My First Trip to a WILD HORSE Slaughter Auction
Dear Readers, I'm counting down the minutes. Federal Judge Miranda Du set a hearing by teleconference for 1:30 p.m. today to decide whether to grant a temporary restraining order suspending the auction of over 400 wild horses. It's 3:35 p.m. I don't want to return to the Fallon Livestock Exchange tomorrow. My heart hasn't mended from the first time. My First Trip to a Slaughter AuctionFor years, I've known that wild horses and their tame cousins are sent to livestock auctions where they face "kill buyers." I wrote such an auction in GIFT HORSE. It was based on interviews and research. On January 9 of this year, I attended a slaughter auction. My heart falls heavy in my chest when I think about it and my throat aches like it's full of splinters when I try to talk about it. I went to this auction to find 41 wild horses which had been trapped by the Nevada Department of Agriculture. Members of the Hidden Valley Wild Horse Preservation Campaign hoped to use donations -- from people around the world! -- to buy back the wild ones. But the horses that I can't forget were domestic horses. Trailered for miles and then left in strange corrals, they neighed and whinnied after their owners. Before the auction Shannon Windle and I walked around looking for the mustangs, but the horses that came up to fences, puzzled and friendly, were cow ponies, race horses, a burned-out endurance horse and mounts that had helped children learn to ride. Herded down a chute and into the auction ring, many realized they were in danger. So, they did what they'd learned to do. They trotted up to the edge of the auction ring and nudged at boots of audience members. Those horses had been raised as pets or at least, trained to trust humans. They didn't know where they were. They didn't understand what was expected of them. They didn't know why they were in an unfamiliar place that smelled of fear. Ironically, they turned for help to the species that had betrayed them. I think the only thing that kept me using my head during that long, long day, was doing a series of live posts via Twitter, for horse lovers far away. I hope I don't ever have to do it again. Labels: fallon livestock exchange, kill buyers, live Tweet, Rambles, slaughter auction, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 4:36 PM 2 comments
Monday, December 10, 2012 Kind Calling to Kind Dear Readers, There is something sweet, but primitive about this photo. In my imagination, the humans and horses assumed noon-threatening shapes like this in their first encounters.  In fact, this photo was shot just days ago by Sherry Thelma Snider. Bo Rodriguez (on the left) explains that this is one of the Hidden Valley wild horses being baited into neighborhoods for capture by the Nevada Department of Agriculture. This stallion has avoid capture & removal to a slaughter auction at the Fallon Livestock Exchange. " I love watching him," Bo says. "He seems to have taken an interest in me, and judging from his scars he knows how to take care of business." Labels: bait traps, Bo Rodriguez, fallon livestock exchange, Hidden Valley horses, Sherry Thelma Snider Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 5:25 PM 0 comments
Sunday, July 11, 2010 SLAUGHTER AUCTION final score ---  Fallon Livestock Exchange horse pens HORSE ADVOCATES: 174 KILLER BUYERS: 0 Dear Readers, Saturday 174 "privately owned" (ungentled, un-halter broken,looking a whole lot like mustangs) ranch horses were put up for sale at the Fallon Livestock Exchange where horses are often sold by the pound. You know what that means. HOWEVER -- wild horses advocates wasted no time stirring up the media and contacting rescuers like Jill Starr's LIFESAVERS, WILD HORSE MENTORS, LET 'EM RUN FOUNDATION, WILD HORSE SPIRITS, the CLOUD FOUNDATION, and many others. With fingers crossed, funds raised, lots of hope, prayers and backbone -- horse advocates faced off with slaughter middle men and WON! If you'd like to read a report by Willis Lamm (he organized the convoy of horse trailers to get the horses AWAY from the auction groups asap) & see photos of the horses saved, please check this out Pilot Valley Horses Rescued INVESTIGATIONS INTO WHETHER THESE ARE WILD HORSES will continue. Keep the faith, all! Terri Labels: Cloud Foundation, equine slaughter, fallon livestock exchange, Jill Starr, wild horse mentors Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 3:05 PM 2 comments
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