Hey. I'm writing something and have a chapter involving a horse that is proving hard to research.
To give you the setup, the main character is in charge of a commercial stable, set in an English city in the late 1800's. One of the draught horses, which was old and growing frail to begin with, stumbles and breaks a leg. The decision is made to sell the horse to the knackery, so he feeds it some opium to ease the pain just enough to walk on the broken leg and get it to the knackery.
So, what I'm trying to research is just how a horse will behave when on sedatives, but not enough sedatives to render unconscious? Second thing is how much money is a dead horse worth? From the research I've done the bodies of horses were worth a decent amount of money for the hide, meat and cartilage (for glue) but I can find no reference as to how much you could expect to sell a nearly dead horse for, particularly since the horse is old, arthritic and hasn't got as much cartilage as it should. Any help, or ideas of where to start looking?
Hey. I'm writing something and have a chapter involving a horse that is proving hard to research.
To give you the setup, the main character is in charge of a commercial stable, set in an English city in the late 1800's. One of the draught horses, which was old and growing frail to begin with, stumbles and breaks a leg. The decision is made to sell the horse to the knackery, so he feeds it some opium to ease the pain just enough to walk on the broken leg and get it to the knackery.
So, what I'm trying to research is just how a horse will behave when on sedatives, but not enough sedatives to render unconscious? Second thing is how much money is a dead horse worth? From the research I've done the bodies of horses were worth a decent amount of money for the hide, meat and cartilage (for glue) but I can find no reference as to how much you could expect to sell a nearly dead horse for, particularly since the horse is old, arthritic and hasn't got as much cartilage as it should. Any help, or ideas of where to start looking?