Category: Wild Horses/Mustangs

The most endangered wild horse in the world

SOURCE: arkwild.org Only one Abaco Spanish Colonial Horse left Six decades ago there were 200 or more wild horses on Great Abaco Island, Bahamas.  These horses were the time-capsuled descendants of the horses that Christopher Columbus brought with him to the New World, at the end of the […]

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Groups “water” wild horses

SOURCE:  Codyenterprise.com by Steve Browne Wild horses are tough animals, but they need water like every other living thing. A coalition of a federal agency, an oil company and a non-profit advocacy group are continuing efforts to ensure a reliable water source for the wild horse herd in […]

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BLM: Humboldt Herd Area Wild Horse Trapping Suspended

Information supplied by the Nevada office of the BLM “the area is managed for zero wild horses” Wild Horse Trapping Update The Humboldt wild horse water bait trap operations have been temporarily suspended since trapped numbers have been relatively low over the last three days. Trapping operations will continue on […]

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U. of Kentucky warns of heat stress in horses, while BLM continues to dawdle “testing” shade options

Yet another University has issued warnings about heat stress in horses.  Wild horses and burros have been kept in unnatural, feedlot conditions in sweltering in heat, but the BLM has “tested” only a few shade options at only one facility.  One of these didn’t even allow enough height for a wrangler on a horse.      photo:  ktvn.com […]

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