Arob wonders, do they still make horses into glue? - Horse Forums - Horse Forum Topics & Answers - Horse Training & Trainers

*Arob* · 06-29-2008,

Hello from Ontario Canada

I grew up on a farm that had two Belgians for logging cedar trees out of our MASSIVE swamp every winter. This was ideal work for them - they were a team and named Jack and Jill yes its cliche but true.

My dad sold cedar which he which ripped with a band saw into boards. There was always a great demand for our cedar lumber and we planed it ourselves and cured it for two years in a part of our barn that no longer sheltered animals.

last summer I was out with my pal and we came across a bent horse shoe - really bent.

He said it was caught in a press at the glue factory? You think he's right?

*Cheryl624* · 07-01-2008,

Apparently they still do. I swipped this off a page I googled:

Quote:

There was a famous jockey that never lost a race. When asked how he achieved this, he replied, I whisper in the horse's ear: Roses are red, violets are blue. Horses that lose are made into glue.

Animal (origin) glue is made from connective tissue, found in hoofs, bones, tendons, ligaments, and cartilage in vertebrate animals.

Rendering plants are the recycling links in the food chain. They take fat and bone trimmings from grocery stores, waste scraps from restaurants, and dead animals. They cook the meat and fat products together and grind it up. It's used for animal feed and non-edible products like soap, various lubricants, and of course glue--the heavy kind that's used to glue furniture together, for example.

Straight Dope Staff Report: Are horses really made into glue?

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