16 Commonly Held Amish Myths Busted!
13. Myth - Their Horses Are A Cute Tourist Attraction
When visiting historic cities like New York or Savannah, Georgia the sights can be enjoyed in luxury by riding in a fancy horse drawn buggy through the streets. One piece of horse livery that these high-end tourist equines have in common is they wear large nappies so the inevitable rear-end outpourings don't spoil the clean streets.
Horses for the Amish are mere tools; labour saving devices utilized solely to aid transportation or farming and are not intended to be tourist attractions for those eager to travel back to a simpler time. Unfortunately, therefore, in rural Amish areas, pony diapers are not enforced like they are in the big cities and so the horses just dump a fat load where ever they feel like it - many times a day.
Amish towns have scores of families each with at least two horses for transportation so with that amount of four legged beasts trotting about the roads are often coated in unpleasant stinky Sea Biscuits.
Despite horse dung being some of the more acceptable turds from the animal kingdom, the 40C degree heat often endured in lower Pennsylvania results in horse pooh pies getting a tad rank.
Not quite the idyllic image that pretty postcards of Amish horses may portray.