HORSE! It's the other red meat!

[Cisco]

@Reloy3

Many of the so-called “wild horses” aren’t even the decendants of domesticated horses. A large number of them, if not the majority, are stray or dropped off domesticated horses. Growing up here in Wyoming, and growing up on a horse ranch, and working on ag issues as an attorney, I am very familiar with a large number of the herds around here, and have helped with the BLM roundups and adoption programs. It isn’t unusual to find a large part of the “wild horse” herd to have brands, or even bridle paths. I have former clients who work for the state prison system breaking “wild horses” who tell me some of them are broke to ride before they were captured. I’ve also known (and prosecuted) people who don’t want a horse and who just dump them on the range to join the herd.

This is interesting because I’ve always heard that the only truly wild horses left in America are on an island off the coast of North Carolina. The way you can tell the difference - so I’ve heard - is that the truly wild horses have short manes, so short that they stand straight up like a mohawk, while the domestic “wild” horses retain the long, drooping manes.

Can anyone confirm or deny?

[DWToml815]

As a long time horse owner, I hate to even ask this. And the odds are that the wife will read this sometime lurking, but, Wouldn’t wild hose be a little “gamey” and tough. It seems like the best would be young, farm-raised, grain fed horse…

[DWToml815]

I mean wild HORSE, not wild HOSE…those are what I run over with the lawnmower…DUH

[chappachula]

horsemeat…
20 years ago, I’m backpacking cheaply thru Europe , and one day in Switzerland, decide to splurge for a meal at a nice restaurant. Now, I don’t speak German, but I know “Fleisch” means steak, schwein-fleisch means pork.So I ask the waitresse what this certain item , the most expensive “fleisch” listed on the menu is. And she replies “horse steak”
I was shocked.
I couldn’t bring myself to try it, though.