I don't wish to be controversial here ;) but surely if this is YOUR project perhaps you would be better off actually canvassing the hunts and speaking to the masters, whippers in, grooms, huntsmen etc for first hand knowledge.  Those who are directly employed in this field would surely be able to provide you with facts and figures rather than the anecdotal information available on a list such as this.

After all, how will you verify your sources?

I found this website as i was looking for imformation like the sort i have been asking these helpful people about the animals involved in fox hunting. Websites on fox hunting are not specific enough for what i need they just expain what the hunt does and not the down falls of it for the animals. If im correct i have spoke to people on here that have been on a hunt or own horses and can expain to me what sort of injuries that are involved in fox hunting/other activites that involved the same risk of similar injuries. All the replys that i have recieved have been very very helpful and i am greatful to the people that have sent posts to me as their information has helped alot.

I will source them by writing down this website as evidence of where the posts have come from, also where i have used these posts in my assignment i will quote underneath the name of the person who has provided the information and put the time and date of when i recieved it. Lastly all the above information will be put in the reference at the back of the assignment as well as in the main text.
i have told everone on here that they will be referenced and that the info is for my assignments for college. 

Don't you actually go out and interview real people or is everything done via the ether????????????

If I was marking your project I would say that your info came from unsubstantiated sources as everyone here is under a pseudonym and your arguments would carry much greater weight if you had actually interviewed and spent time with those who could give you the benefit of generations of experience.............

It would also indicate that you had actually bothered to do some real research on the ground rather than rely on shortcuts.

Just my personal views.........

I agree. And, as previously posted, you would be better trying a horse board than this - like Horse and Hound online.

Unless of course this is just an attempt to stir up constroversy over an emotive subject - although I wouldn't dare suggest it out loud :D

As you've had a lot of help from the web, would it not now be a good idea, as Tohme suggests, to actually make an appointment and go and visit a hunt kennels and get information 'from the horse's mouth', as it were, rather than anecdotal evidence? I'm sure first-hand information and evidence of effort would earn much higher marks.
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this is all true everyone but i dont have time to dedicate so much attention to just one assignment as i have at least 10 other assignments to change or complete. all the questions i have asked are asked by my lecturers on my assignments that have been marked and handed back so i can complete anything that i have missed. everything that i have posted is NOT an attempt to stir anything up im just trying to get information i need and everyones ganging up on me for it. :-( :(

they dont care where i get the info from as long as i source it and everything is completed.

And folk on here don't have time to answer detailed q's on hunting statistics either!

you gave me information on injujries that the horses could endure and that didnt take you long, the questions are not detailed in a way that they need pages and pages on writing. they just add on bits to what i have already written.

The list of possible injuries wasn't specific to hunting, though - they were injuries that can happen when a horse is ridden anywhere. If it's hunting-specific information you need, you'll have to contact the hunts.
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all the injuries that a horse can suffer from can be along the same lines which ever activity they do. some of the injuries listed were specific to hunting. 

Only the ones caused by the antis, I think, because they only turn out to hunts, not when a horse is being ridden across country at any other time.
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The only one I can think of that is specific to hunting is if the fox turned round, ran back and bit them :rolleyes: .....and the antis of course, JG, how could I forget them :)

The only one I can think of that is specific to hunting is if the fox turned round, ran back and bit them

Aye, just as likely to happen on a hack as a hunt - with the right kind of fox :D :D

If hunt horses are badly injured beyond repair or unable to lead a trouble and pain free life they are destroyed within the hunt.  Some horses not many get injured out hunting i.e. broken legs etc then obviously you loose them as well also heart attack victims.  The old or slow hounds can be drafted out to other slower hunts but any that are badly injured again or have troubles like cancer etc then they are lost also not forgeting the ones that may be hit on the road by cars etc.
It is very difficult to put a figure on this as each hunt operatees in a different area and some have higher risks than others like jumping bigger fences etc.
Hope this may answer some of you question.

As caring for them I don,t know in what sense you mean if you could clarify that I may be able to answer that one aslo.

when they are not hunting, what husbandry is given to them in this time. :)

All the usual :)

i surpose it would be.