I don't see much difference in the horses, other than the one on the bottom is a bit skinnier. Is that an unhealthy build for a horse? I'm afraid I don't know much about them.

two major things wrong with the lower hors 1) the weight, a good hundred or more pounds under weight 2) see that strap going form the neck back? sort of pulling it's head high up? well that makes the horse prance prettier... but it's much much harder for the horse to pull weight with it that way. bad for it's back, neck, etc. They say they are pias, and yet they want their horse to strain itself just to look pretty. so vein. so bad for the horse. and the under weight combined with that = cruelty

Sheesh, I thought the Amish were against that sort of vanity. But I suppose even a crazy cult has its deviants.

it's actually popular in a lot of groups. especially with the younger generations of Amish and Mennonite. I've lived around them for 16 years and... there are some nice ones, but I really... just don't like most. A month after moving here we bought a basket of apples from a Mennonite farm stand. The apples on top were good... the rest were rotten. So much for honest. That pretty much set the stage for how a lot of them are around central PA.

>The apples on top were good... the rest were rotten.

Oh god, the same thing happened to me at school- I was looking through the apples and the ones on top didn't look good, so I picked one from the bottom. It looked perfectly fine, but when I bit into it, the whole thing was brown and rotten inside. Needless to say, much spitting and "patooey"s commenced.
Thankfully, the head chef gave me a fresh one free of charge.

I really hate people like this :/ The top one looks like it's actually enjoying the work and looks to have good conformation..
As for the bottom one...They don't even give the horse the chance to put it's head down and give it it's all. Reminds me of the carriage scene in Black Beauty. And is it just me or does it seem too thin and scraggly...

very thin. sad, really sad. I see more like that one then the other on a daily basis. makes me sooo angry!

you should secretly follow one of them back to their house and call the spca on them D: Amish or not, if they're not treating their animals right they need to be called out

unfortunately most of the laws give them the right to keep their horses in those conditions.

that's so messed up >.<

goddamned bearing reins

Disgusting how the lower horse is moving, stupid people. Poor thing needs some bulking up, too...rail thin and jacked all out of shape to keep the head up? Makes me do sadface.

Ugh. Not that I don't see that EVERYWHERE with people riding their horses all hollow like that as well. Topline? What topline?!

-_-