Source: Alex Cooke, CBC News, August 24, 2019
‘It’s getting to the point that people don’t even care. And that’s the scary part,’ says horse owner
When Basil Oickle started up his horse-and-buggy business 25 years ago, he could easily find a strong workhorse that would cost him between $800 and $1,200.
Now, that same horse could cost him $5,000, and it took him nearly two years to find the horse he most recently bought.
Oickle says he’s alarmed about declining numbers of workhorses — also known as draft horses or dray horses — in Canada.
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