I’m hearing stories like that out here alot. Some folks a couple of miles away were begging people to take their pregnant mare - they were being evicted. And animal control has two horses found just walking down the highway, skin and bones. It really is heartbreaking.
I meant to add in my last post, that the Horse Chow I use has almost doubled tho here this past year:(...I’m paying $11.50 a bag now...can’t imagine what it would be for you since it was so much higher there even when it was cheap here. That was one reason I sent Harley to my kids...cheaper to feed him there where he has pasture.