86-year-old American musician Wille Nelson has an impressive herd of 70 horses at his Texas ‘Luck Ranch’, where he prefers to spend most of free time looking after the equines. The amazing thing is that all of these horses were destined for slaughterhouses, and Nelson rescued each one of them over the last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The name \u201cLuck\u201d suits the ranch in more ways than one. Nelson likes to say, \u201cWhen you\u2019re here, you\u2019re in Luck, and when you\u2019re not, you\u2019re out of Luck,\u201d explains Paul Venema from KSAT 12 News, who interviewed\u00a0the singer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the country music legend, who is approaching his 87th<\/sup>\u00a0birthday, the ranch represents his love of country music as well as horses in need. The 700-acre plot is in Spicewood, 30 miles from Austin, in Texas hill country. His 70 paint horses have plenty of open space to wander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy horses are probably the luckiest horses in the world,\u201d Nelson tells Venema. \u201cThey get hand-fed twice a day, and they were just ready to go to slaughter is probably the last thing they remembered, so they\u2019re happy horses.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n