This is a non-commercial, independent website, owned and written by Nancy Kerson, for the benefit of actual and potential adopters of BLM Mustangs and Burros and similar animals.
DVD or VHS (2-DVD or 2-VHS set) almost 3 hours of instruction!
$39.95 plus $5 shipping/handling = $44.95 total
Lesley Neuman: The First Touch Gentling Your Mustang $45.00
Lesley works with 3 wild horses at a BLM adoption, and very clearly explains what is happening, what she is doing, & what she sees in each horse as it progresses. Study this video and you can learn "pressure and release" gentling techniques to gentle your own new mustang!
Help for Burro adopters! Crystal Ward Donkey Training
All the basics of gentling, handling, and training. A MUST for new burro adopters! Good for domestic donkeys, too!
South Shoshone mares & foals at Litchfield BLM facility in early 2008. Internet Adoption horse at Litchfield Corrals, from South Shoshone HMA
The South Shoshone horses from the 2007-08 gather were sent to Litchfield Corrals in California. Several became Extreme Mustang Makeover horses, BLM Volunteer Halter Projects, and many more were adopted by adopters thorughout the state. The South Shoshone horses are typical old style ranch horses. They are smart, athletic, loyal, quick, and sturdy. In stature they are on the shorter side, which was favored by cowboys in the old days for ease in moutning and dismounting in a hurry. If your ego can get over it, you may like it, too! South Shoshone horses reflect their relationship to Quarter Horses, in both their copnformation and their typical sorrel, black or bay coloring.
Sue Watkins and "Ima Your Horse" - her South Shoshone project mare for the 2009 Western States Extreme Mustang Challenge.
Sweet Pete, or Petie, originally halter-trained by Linda Stine, then adopted by Denise Lincoln and saddle-trained by Midori Morgan. Pete is doing well!
Since I do extensive trail riding and search & rescue, I decided a mustang should be in my future. I went to the Ridgecrest BLM facility and chose a yearling. He was delivered about 11:00 a.m. on July 3, and these pictures were taken on the afternoon of July 5th. Click Here: http://www.visualtour.com/shownp.asp?t=1588643&sk=3&prt=10003
This little guy is probably about 16 months old and he has the sweetest nature I have ever seen. He is out of the New Pass/Ravenswood herd and was captured last November. I am so impressed by him that I cannot imagine any horse but a mustang now. You will have to paste this link on your browser to see it but you will not believe it. One of my neighbors went with me and adopted a yearling from the same herd and is having the same amazing progress. Thanks again for your great website - I am continuing to learn! - Karen Lowe Morongo Valley, CA
Attached are two photos of "The Girls." The bay is "Cholla" and the red roan is "Sage."
They are both from the NV602 New Pass-Ravenswood herd management area and were captured on November 5th, 2007.
I live in Twentynine Palms, California, and I adopted my girls on April 19th in Lake Perris, California, at a BLM Adoption Event. I only meant to get one, but they were having a special so I came home with two and so glad I did. They have been a great deal of fun to work with. They were just barely a year old when I got them and now are about 16 months. I lost my Arab mare a few years ago, and had been wanting another horse but couldn't decide when someone mentioned the BLM Adoption Program.
Best decision I ever made. Trail riding is what I like to do, and what better trail horse than a mustang. They are learning at a great rate, and I hope to be riding by next summer. They are learning to drive and drag things and are building muscle and endurance. I am interested in the mounted search and rescue in the area, and also the the mounted patrol of the national park nearby. I believe they will be perfect for it.
They are also a couple of the friendliest horses I have ever encountered. They love attention and nicker whenever someone walks out the door. When I am in the corral cleaning, they are standing right there trying to help. They are interested in everything and love to have toys in the corral to play with.
I have had horses all my life, but these two are just different in many ways than a horse born in captivity.
Thanks so much for the website.
Renee Recker
i just thought i'd forward a pic of my new pass-ravenswood HMA gelding, who has a minimal curly gene (according to someone who is a breeder of curlies ;) he is Ivan, captured at 5, now 9, and doing fabulously.
he is a smidge under 14 hds, but looks bigger ridden. he's a sweety, has a great personality, easy going, relatively lazy, but we like that.
Here are pictures of our Desatoya mare gathered in February 2004 and the third picture is of a colt from her, conceived at Desatoya, although he was actually born at Cassoday (LTHF) KS the following July.
The Desatoya horses that I have are very well muscled, about 14 hands in height. The heads are plain and convex but the brain capacity is good, they are no dullards, that's for sure. Conformationally the bodies are similar to a QH. The colt, now two, along with another Nevada-bred two-year-old, are my granddaughter's Parelli projects.
Sometimes these two appear to have champagne coloration, they are buckskin duns, but there's a little more going on in there.
- Bettye Roberts
Desatoya mare adopted by Bettye Roberts of Oklahoma
Colt, conceived at Desatoya, born in captivity Desatoya mare adopted by Bettye Roberts of Oklahoma
Nevada Sky, adopted by Angela Martin, West Brookfield, Vermont
I have an 8 month old Mustang filly that I adopted from Palomino Valley, in September 2005. She is really sweet, agreeable and learns quickly. I have named her "Terra". She is from the Fish Creek HMA.
Here's a great story about two horses born at Palomino Valley out of Battle Mountain mares:
Bruce and Debbie Sheuring write:
"We have 2 mustang boys (geldings) who were adopted in Oct. 2000, through a BLM auction. We live in Blackshear, GA. The auction was in Waycross, 10 miles away, at the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp.
Your experience with Ruby was so similar to ours; we too had no corral, but we bought some panels and were setting them up as they arrived in my friend's trailer....Both were weanlings, and not the flashy ones everyone wanted (thank goodness, that made them affordable!).
We went the evening before, and met a very nice ranger, who, upon finding out that our youngest daughter is special needs (inoperable brain tumor, seizures), walked us around the corrals and had us write down numbers of some of the horses that he said the rangers "worked with in their spare time."
The next day, armed with our list, we bid on our top 2 "suggestions" and got our boys. A friend of mine who had adopted several horses and burros though the years offered lots of help too, including trailering them out to us.
I guess we're lucky, but we've had no real problems with them. Our older daughter is teaching them to ride (a good mixture, they're teaching her too, she's active in 4H, and is trying Western & English) They haven't had any serious health problems either.
Both were born at the Palomino Valley, NV holding facility in March of 2000. They're 5 days apart in age. Our older daughter has written the BLM to find out more about their lineage, and both mothers were captured in the Battle Mountain area. Sugar is a sorrel bay, and probably a curly coat, as well as having a particularly smooth gait. We hope some day to have him DNA tested.
The BLM told us a large number of curly coats are in that area, and the lady who made the follow-up inspection felt that he was one of those. His coat is certainly different from other horses, and friends who are normally allergic to horses are able to even groom him with no problems. Bandit is very unusual looking as well, with lots of striping, and his coat changes periodically so that he looks totally different. He is grulla sometimes, and even will have little lemony color spots on his coat. He never photographs quite like he looks. Physically, he looks alot like the Sorrias sp? with the big head, and that type of conformation.
Both are so gentle and sweet, and very intelligent. Bandit particularly is a clown, and teases every chance he gets. Sugar is very curious and people-oriented, as well as being the alpha. Both would come into the house and live if they could wipe their feet...LOL
Bandit
Bandit & Sugar
Daughter April riding Sugar
Burro adopted by the Roberts Family of Oklahoma, from near Tonopah, NV
Baby Burro rescued off the highway by Amy Dumas, near Tonopah - adopted by the Coleman Family of Reno, NV
THE FOLLOWING HERD AREAS HAVE BEEN ZEROED OUT: NV686 Bulter Basin NV687 Austin NV688 Smith Creek NV689 Grass Valley NV690 Dunlap NV691 Ione NV692 South Pancake NV693 Hot Creek NV694 Park Mountain NV695 Mount Airy NV696 Quinn NV697 North Shoshone NV698 Kobeh Valley NV699 Willow Creek
"OUTSIDE HMA" - Battle Mountain District:
Here are a few of photos of "Bo", #3617, gathered 1/17/06 in Lander Co, Battle Mt (out of herd area). I moved to Utah from California several months ago and Bo was one of the first gentling project horses I worked with earlier in the year with Janet & Cliff Tipton. I adopted him in May, 2006. He is a wonderful horse, intelligent, loves to learn, gentle, with a great sense of humor. He is my only horse; definitely a "keeper" for life!
- Linda Osborne, Volunteer, Intermountain Wild Horse & Burro Advisors, Erda, UT
726 Country Club
Stansbury Park, UT 84074
707-217-8423
Cliff Tipton mounts Bo for the first time as Bo remains curious and calm.
Bo's trust amazes me. He has allowed me to sit on him several times, before he was saddled, and remains calm.
Bo is a 3 year old gelding. Good ground manners. He has been turned out to pasture about 6 times and is such an easy catch. He comes when he is called and halters perfectly. Loves his human interaction & affection.
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Sue Watkins and "Ima Your Horse" - her South Shoshone project mare for the 2009 Western States Extreme Mustang Challenge.
Sweet Pete, or Petie, originally halter-trained by Linda Stine, then adopted by Denise Lincoln and saddle-trained by Midori Morgan. Pete is doing well!
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