By Meghan Overdeep as published on/in Southern Living It’s a mare’s world According to a 2020 annual report by National Parks Service officials with Cape Lookout National Seashore and the Foundation for Shackleford Horses, the majority of the wild horses that roam the thin, eight-mile island are female. […]
By Sean Cockerham as published at newsobserver.com Only two foals have been born this year in the herd of 101 horses. COROLLA, N.C. — Retired Washington, D.C., police Officer E.T. Smith patrolled the beach in his four-wheel-drive truck on a recent morning, keeping an eye out for wild […]
SOURCE: MAILonline A herd of majestic wild horses appear to race against each other as they gallop freely through the shallow waters of the Crystal Coast. Captured by 39-year-old photographer Brad Styron, the horses are part of an isolated herd which roams across the Shackleford Banks in North […]
By Corolla Wild Horse Fund Small Herd Size is Pushing Horses to Genetic Collapse The North Carolina State Horse urgently needs your help. The Corolla Wild Horses Protection Act, S 3448, sponsored by North Carolina Senator Kay Hagan and cosponsored by NC Senator Richard Burr, has been sitting […]
COROLLA, N.C. — Come summer, the beaches of this barrier island will be choked with cars and sunbathers, but in the off-season the land is left to wild horses. Smallish, tending toward chestnut and black, they wander past deserted vacation rentals in harems of five or six.
Thousands of them once roamed the length of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the likely descendants from mounts that belonged to Spanish explorers five centuries ago. Now their numbers have dwindled to a few hundred, the best known living on federal parkland at Shackleford Banks.
Research indicates the long-term horse contraceptive, porcine zona pellucida (PZP), extends the breeding season in wild horses, raising concerns over the social consequences of the drug on herds.
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