• count_dongulus@lemmy.world
    1141·
    10 days ago

    750 a year? Wtf is this retard smoking. Cost for land, hay storage, water, vet, and farrier. Human time cost to feed them twice a day, get rid of or spread the shit. Blanket, saddle, bridle. You’re looking at a few thousand a year minus the time sink.

  • SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world
    33·
    10 days ago

    Horses can’t be beat in the post-apocalypse for speed, but for most other things you probably want a donkey or mule. Far sturdier, easier to handle, can eat anything, and has no regard for wolves.

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
      8·
      10 days ago

      I’ve never really interacted with them, but from what I’ve read, they have no regard for much of anything.

  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
    32·
    10 days ago

    I feel hay and grass may end up more expensive than anon thinks… For grass, you need a big place where your horse can graze. Anon either is such a big landowner or intends to rent such land, but it won’t be cheap. Then the hay for when the horse is kept indoors… Gotta be a lot of hay. And the means of bringing and storing the hay may be of non-negligible price. Then there are vet bills, because horses can get sick or injured…

    I knew someone who owned horses long ago. Well, more like someone whose parents owned horses since we were kids. They even had a coach that these horses could pull. But they didn’t use it as a means of transportation unless just doing a simple roundtrip for leisure, and there’s a simple reason for that: You can’t leave your horse for hours on a parking spot. You can tie it up somewhere maybe, but not for a long time, there aren’t many places fit for leaving horses nowadays.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 days ago

      Lexington, KY has a ton of horse hitching posts/ bike rack posts. That may be because they maintain a fairly decent mounted police division.

  • Mercuri@lemmy.world
    30·
    10 days ago

    From what little I know about horses, almost all your time is spent trying to make sure they don’t kill themselves. I can leave my vechile outside in the cold for weeks at a time and not have to think about it.

      • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 days ago

        I mean it’s not because they want to die. We’re just talking about an animal that can die if it gets indigestion(the most common cause of death in domestic horses is colic). Some biological engineering points when it comes to horses are frankly quite bizarre when you compare them to ruminants.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    22·
    9 days ago

    You will get an OWI if you ride a horse drunk.

    Source: I know a guy who trained his horse to ride from the bar to his house on its own. Cops still pulled him over because he was sleeping on the horse.

    • Depress_Mode@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 days ago

      I’m pretty sure it depends on the state and whether or not that state considers a horse to be a vehicle/device. Alabama, for example, I believe does not consider a horse to be either, while I think California does. There’s this story that sometimes gets submitted to TIL-type communities where a man from Louisiana was decided to be ineligible for a DUI charge after doing exactly that, but he was still given a court summons for “disturbing the peace by intoxication”.

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 days ago

        In sweden there were some cases where people lost their driving license because they … Walked home drunk so yes it do depends a lot. Guess drunk horse riding there is not legal.

  • GrymEdm@lemmy.world
    9·
    10 days ago

    I know it’s a joke. If I was taking it seriously: I don’t want to spend several hours getting to a job that’s already say, an hour’s commute. And then storing the horse at the job and then several hours back.

    • Godric@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 days ago

      I remember growing up there was this Amish person who worked at one of the yokel gas stations. They would ride their horse to work and hitch it up for their shift, and then ride it home. It’s doable!

      • KrapKake@lemmy.world
        4·
        10 days ago

        That horse must have been bored af tied up to the same spot all day, bet he didn’t have any shelter for inclement weather either.

        Although now that I think about it, this was probably a common thing for horses back in the day.