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Litchfield BLM Corrals

Litchfield Corrals:
Doug Satica, Litchfield Facility Manager Wild Horse and Burro Program
Phone   (530)254-6673
Cell        (530)310-3261
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These pictures were taken April 8, 2008

We visited the Litchfield Corrals on our way home from camping in early September, 2006. At the time they had horses left over from the Devils Garden and Coppersmith gathers, as well as new ones from Twin Peaks and a little-known USFS area up near Klamath Falls, called Sisters. The Sisters horses were large, very drafty horses and also quite gentle - three of the mares came right up to us, curious and unafraid. The Twin Peaks horses are large and elegant, testimony to their Cavalry Re-Mount and Old Spanish ancestry.

More recent gathers that have brought horses to Litchfield include High Rock, Nut Mountain, Wall Canyon and other Northern California HMA's, South Shoshone and Buffalo Hills in Nevada and Alvord-Tule, Sheepshead, and Coyote Lakes in Oregon. In 2010, Litchfield expects to receive horses from the popular Twin Peaks HMA.

Two friendly and curious mares greet Michael at the Litchfield Corrals in September.	I later heard that this mare went to the Eureka adoption and was adopted!
	Twin Peaks also has a few appaloosas Twin Peaks is also a producer of donkeys - AND MULES!!!

Thanks to Karen Floyd for the following pix of weanlings at Litchfield in 2007:
These pictures were taken November 5, 2006. At this time the staff at Litchfield have not yet decided for sure which weanlings will be in the Special Adoption.
NOTE ABOUT THE LITCHFIELD MULES: Wild Mules should only be adopted by people with exceptional experience and ability - they are much trickier to gentle and train than wild horses and burros and you can really mess them up - and get messed up! Don't do it just for the novelty - do it only if you know and love mules and know how to work with both mules and wild equids! At right: Will, Lesley Neuman's "Blue Mule" from Twin Peaks. Below: Lesley works with a wild mule at a BLM adoption

since 9-18-2006

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