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!
Curly Mustangs -
Curlies in summer often shed their manes and tails
"Sparky" a Black Rock East Curly Mustang adopted by Angie Gaines. Shown in "full curly" winter coat.
Curly is a coat quality, not a color, but it is a genetic phenomenon that people often inquire about. So lacking a more specific place to put it, I put it here.
Genetically, Curlies are the result of a naturally occuring genetic mutation, which is identical to the "Rex" gene in rabbits, or the familiar Poodle coat in dogs. The resulting coat is curly and hypo-allergenic. Domestic breeds, with the exception of the Bashkir Curly of Russia, cull it out of their genepools so it mainly exists within non-domesticated horses.
Curly horses - which DNA testing has shown to be unrelated to the Bashkirs - occur in some American Mustang herds, and they have an avid following, similar to the Kiger's.
probably several more but these are the ones I know about
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