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Please direct adoption questions to the BLM, not to me.

And we sure as heck are not a Mustang car dealership!

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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!

$49.95 plus $5 shipping/handling = $54.95 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!

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USING HENNEKE SCALE STANDARDS

Body Score

Ribs

Spine

Pelvis and
Tail Head

Withers, Shoulder & Neck bones

very prominent

very prominent

very prominent

very noticeable

Ribs

Spine

Pelvis and
Tail Head

Withers, Shoulder & Neck bones

prominent

prominent

prominent

noticeable

very noticeable

tops of vertebrae
very noticeable

pelvic bones
noticeable; tail
head prominent

faintly noticeable

faintly
noticeable

slight ridge
along back

pelvic bones
covered; can feel
fat at tail head

not obviously thin

not visible
but easily felt

back is flat; no
crease or ridge

pelvic bones well
covered; spongy
fat at tail head

rounded withers;
shoulder & neck blend into body

spongy fat over
ribs; can feel individual ribs

may have slight
crease down back

pelvic bones well covered; soft fat
around tail head

some fat deposits
on withers, neck, & behind shoulders

Mustangs are notoriously "easy keepers." Having been naturally selected over many generations to thrive on sparse desert grazing, they "blow up like blimps" on good quality hay, green pastures, and (gasp!) grain supplements. Owning a mature mustang means taking on "the Battle of the Bulge."

obvious filling
between ribs; can feel ribs

may have crease
down back

pelvic bones well
covered; soft fat
around tail head

fat deposits on
withers, neck, &
behind shoulders

hard to feel ribs

crease down back

very soft fat at
tail head; fat on
inner thighs

fat fills withers area
& behind shoulders;
thickened neck

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Photo George Clerk

photo:

A horse in this condition is just as at-risk for early death as an emaciated one.

dimpled fat over ribs

obvious crease down back
 

bulging fat at tail head & inner thigh; flank filled with fat

bulging fat on withers, neck, & behind shoulders

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