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Working with Wild Horses
Second (Improved) Edition
A Handbook of
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By Nancy Kerson
Paperback $22 or
Downloadable E-Book $7.50 For more information about the BLM's Wild Horse and Burro Program, please call (866) 4MUSTANGS or Click HERE This website is owned and created by Nancy Kerson, a private citizen - I am not the BLM or any other branch of government! Information about BLM adoptions is offered as a service, to help mustangs find homes and to promote public appreciation of wild horses and burros.
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VIDEOS OF INTEREST TO MUSTANG & BURRO ADOPTERS:
Kitty Lauman:
From Wild to Willing: Using the Bamboo Pole to Gentle Mustangs
More from Lauman Training available now!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! Can't do Paypal?
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OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN
WILD HORSE GENTLING:
 
| | The Sooty, or Smutty, Gene
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Sooty palomino mustang from Salt Wells Creek HMA in Wyoming | 
Many horses have this aspect of what is most likely a form of natural camouflage.
The Smutty, or Sooty genetic modifier causes some black hairs to become mixed into body coat, sometimes creating dappling or brindle striping. Sorrel becomes dark chestnut or liver chestnut. Bay becomes mahogany bay. (Recent research in France shows that most Seal Brown horses carry Agouti, indicating that they may be Sooty Bays) Palomino becomes sooty palomino, or, in extreme cases, Chocolate Palomino.
Wyatt, Kitty Lauman's Beaty's Butte mustang, has wonderful sooty overtones - almost brindle!
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Sooty Palomino owned by Kristi Cantor
Sooty Palomino Appaloosa colt at Palomino Valley in August, 2001
This PMU foal is either a Chocolate Palomino or Silver Dapples - the look is the same - only genetic/pedigree analysis can say for sure.
COUNTERSHADING is a form of the Sooty / Smutty gene which mimics the dorsal stripe associated with Dun:
 
left: countershading stripe on a buckskin; Many "linebacked bays" have this stripe - are lacking in any other dun characteristics right: true dun dorsal stripe | BRINDLE results when Sootiness is grouped by the Brindle gene into irregular "drippy" or "tiger" stripes
Brindle horse the owned by Charpilloz familyFor more about Brindle, click here: Brindle Horse Website Brindle Horse - another website Sharon Batteatte's Brindle Horse Research Website Denise Charpilloz' Brindle Horse Website | | SOOTINESS IS OFTEN SEASONAL Much sooty coloring comes and goes with the seasons. Many buckskins produce dun-like dorsal shading and facial and shoulder darkening during springtime. But it fades away with summer. | 
Benny in his Springtime Sooty Phase
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Benny in summer after the sootiness sheds away
Benny's springtime sooty "fake dorsal stripe"
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This Internet Adoption horse from Wyoming is about as "Sooty" as they come!
The Base Colors: Red Black The Dominant Genes: Agouti (Bay) Appaloosa Black Brindle Grey Pangare (Mealy) Roan Roan-like Variations Sooty/Smutty The Pinto Patterns: Tobiano The Overo Group: Frame Sabino Splash The Dilution Genes (Partial Dominants): Champagne Creme Dun Silver (Silver Dapples) The Recessive Genes: Red Flaxen Other Colors & Issues: White Overo Lethal White 
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