Colorado State University - Experience the Excellence, Equine Science

The Equine Sciences Program at Colorado State University has a long history, both in the College of Agricultural Sciences and the College of Veterinary Medicine. Research programs, centered in both colleges, provide an unmatched enironment for support of the undergraduate program. Over 380 students from across the U.S. and several foreign countries are currently enrolled in the Colorado State Equine Sciences Program.
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[@alisiademi]

I went to Colorado State for three years for equine science before I quit. My advisor Tim Jedra recommended an internship at Blue Mound Quarter Horses in Nevis, MN and I witnessed so much animal cruelty that I lost interest in riding horses after riding and competing in barrel racing for ten years. They were inbreeding, forcibly breeding to unwilling mares, tying ropes from colt and filly's feet to around their cinch area to force train farrier pick-up, and having multiple difficult births that resulted in dead babies and/or dead mares. I had to do some self reflection and realize that I couldn't call myself a horse lover while actively participating in their abuse and death. When I did a necropsy for lab for my equine disease class, I learned that they euthanized the horse JUST for the purpose of this lab because the horse wasn't performing under saddle well. If you love horses you have to ask yourself why you would contribute to breeding more of them into existence when there are so many unwanted horses that go to slaughter. You're adding to the problem and part of the problem. And that's not even getting in to the unnecessary human caused injury and deaths of horses in racing and every other discipline.

[@kevinbaker2401]

why quit?

[@perrymeau7973]

omg, this is horrifying! I'm sorry you had to experience that.