Patience, a good technique for gentling mustangs too.  Blind horses gathered from the range usually don’t get a second chance.  Refer also to the daily reports from roundups going on now in Nevada and Utah.

Day 3, settling in.  Photos taken while laying down in their corral, 11/22/15.  You are the threat, not them.

The annual open house for Wild Horse Sanctuary will be held 08/18/18, featuring wild horse viewing, horse rides for kids under 10 and saddling demonstrations.  See the announcement in Shingletown dot com for the event location.   Food and beverages will be available.

The non-profit organization was founded in 1978 and is currently home to over 300 free-roaming horses and burros.  It’s not an off-range pasture for the BLM.

Day 1, exploring.  Mom/baby pair, adopted from BLM Oregon.  Photos taken 11/19/15.

BLM announced on 08/02/18 that it would be holding a wild horse and burro sale event at the Wyandotte County Fairgrounds August 24 – 25.  Fifty animals will be available for purchase, cash and carry.

Adoption is not the preferred method nowadays?

Refer to the news release for directions.  Availability of WHB posters unknown.

All can be forgiven…until she takes your horse.

Mustangs adopted from BLM Oregon in 2015.  Colt, left, born at ranch.  Mom (right) and filly (center) appeared in the wild horse loading video at this post.  Mom was pregnant when captured.  Filmed 08/02/18.

Gentling technique: Patience.  No strings, no ropes, no confined spaces, no ‘respect my space,’ no ‘show that horse who’s boss.’

As for the colt, no imprinting and no weaning.  Hands off for the first three months to let mom teach baby how to be a horse.

Twelve minute video lecture on training methods by Rick Gore.  WTWT.

As for your newly adopted mustang, the question is not how long before you can trust him, but how long before he can trust you.

Hand feeding not recommended.  Filmed in West Virginia on the Hatfield McCoy Trails.

H/T Cheyenne Bullard.

RELATED: How to Make Your Horse Pushy and Disrespectful.

Stallions can reproduce, geldings can’t, because they’ve been castrated.  The procedure is not 100% effective.

There are no geldings in the wild, unless they escaped from their owners or were turned loose, or were selectively returned to the range after being rounded up and ‘processed’ by the managing agency.

In this example, the horse has a twig and berries, not a gelding.

Two free tours will be offered on 08/11/18.  Visitors will be able to see 200 mares roaming the 3875 acre Chickasaw Ranch.  Refer to this news release for event details.

Not quite the same as band stallions roaming the high desert with their mares and youngsters, but it’s the next best thing if you can’t get out west.

This is the same chute that appears in this post.  No neck tags and no halters for the journey home.  An open space (corral for example, larger than 20′ x 20′ required by BLM) and no ropes means the horse can give you some feedback on your gentling techniques.  He might just tell you you’re not as good as you think you are.

At the BLM Wild Horse Corrals in Hines, OR.  Two are better than one.  BLM can remove neck tags (recommended) and add halters (not recommended) before loading.

H/T Rebekah Lynn.

RELATED: You’re Their Only Hope.

Video from 2009.  Explains the adoption process.  Should be the same today.  No sale authority, no cash and carry.  You do the heavy lifting for a year as a foster home, then you get title.

See this story posted earlier today by Reuters.  H/T Drudge Report.

On a private off-range pasture somewhere in the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas.  For some background on the subject, read this article in The Wichita Eagle dated 03/13/11.

RELATED: BLM Seeks Additional Off-Range Pastures for WHB.

Adopt.  Get started at the BLM Internet Auction page.

Half-acre parcel west of Las Vegas, in the Wheeler Pass HMA.  Not large enough for a horse ranch but mustangs pass through the area.  The water tap avoids a $30,000 to $40,000 expense of drilling a well and installing a private water system.  Not on the electric grid.  It’s a rugged landscape, tough on the horses too.

RELATED: USFS Ends Cold Creek Gather.

Pipe panels are best, with metal posts.  Wood posts can rot and break off.  BLM horses must be placed inside six foot fences, mustangs obtained through rescues may have different requirements.  H/T Rick Gore for the video.

BLM announced today that it would commence bait-trapping operations immediately, with a goal of removing approximately 250 wild horses from the Antelope Valley HMA, due to insufficient water.  The gather will not be open to public observation.

The HMA is about 60 miles southeast of Elko, NV, and covers 502,909 acres (463,540 acres per the news release).  The AML of 259 gives a target population density of 0.5 animals per thousand acres (1942 acres per animal).

Captured horses will be taken to the Indian Lakes Off-Range Corral in Fallon, NV, where they will be evaluated by a veterinarian and prepared for adoption.  Gather stats can be found at this page.

The news release did not indicate if livestock were present on the HMA or surrounding lands where the horses might roam in search of food or water.