The event will occur on 08/11/18 at the Regional WHB Corrals in Ridgecrest, CA, as indicated in a news release dated 07/10/18.  Most of the horses are aged two years and older, but some colts and fillies will be available.  All of the boys have been gelded.  The whereabouts of captured mares was not provided.

RELATED: Emergency Gather Planned Near Cold Creek, NV.

Found this in one of the corrals on 07/06/18.  It’s the compressed material flung out of a horse’s foot as he moves.  The first photo shows the outer surface that faces the ground.  The second photo shows the inner surface that contacts the hoof.  Note the rocks and other debris that were pulled out.

In one of his earlier videos, Rick Gore used the example of an overflowing water trough to keep mud in the pasture.  He explains the vacuum effect of mud as well as the flinging of dried mud in this video.

Tips for using a trailer with no tack room.  H/T Wild Horse Girl.

Wild horses and burros will be offered by the BLM for adoption and sale July 27 – 28, 2018 at the Cherokee County Fairgrounds, according to a BLM news release dated 07/02/18.  Tahlequah is about 60 miles east of Tulsa.

Wild horse and burro posters will be available at the event.

Yes, he’s in the house.  Either that or you put a cot in the barn.  That’s what you have to do with critical-care babies.  Just ask Palomino Armstrong.  See also the videos posted last few days at the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group FB page.

At first glance, you might think someone tried braiding the mane of this horse.  Nope, the wind did it.  Fairly common in horses with long manes.  Especially if they’re wild or in pastures.

And what the wind creates, the wind can take away.  A few days later the knots may be gone, without human involvement.

This one is on the Wind River Indian reservation, near the town of Lander.  It’s a working cattle ranch and off-range pasture for BLM horses.

Visitors welcome, tours available.  Learn about native American culture and the history of horses in North America at the Wind River Wild Horse Sanctuary.

Conceived on the range but born in captivity, this colt turned two on 06/25/18.  On the left is his sister, about a year older.  She carries a freezemark, he does not.  She is a mustang, he is not.

Mom appears in third photo, also a mustang.  They are family.

Your new mustang will be afraid of you for weeks, maybe months.  Don’t turn it into years by doing things like this.  H/T Rick Gore.

News report from KTVH (NBC affiliate) in Helena, MT.  Bad horses aren’t born, they’re made.

RELATED: BLM Event in Missoula, MT to Feature WHB.

Trail ride into the Grand Canyon, south rim.  H/T West Taylor.

Saddle-started horses for $300 to $500.  Can’t beat that.  H/T Friends of R3C.

Fifteen to twenty halter-trained mustangs, along with three to five saddle-started mustangs will be available for adoption at the Missoula County Fairgrounds June 22-23, 2018, according to a  BLM news release dated 06/20/18.  Fifty untouched horses and ten untouched burros will also be available.

Wild horse & burro posters will not be available at the event.

Flushing new system a few times to remove sediment.  Water was a bit cloudy initially, but cleared up after four or five cycles (drain tanks until pressure hits 40 psi, pump comes on and refills tanks, repeat).

Some Virginia Range mustangs came by to check it out…and they liked it!  Photos taken 06/15/18.

Video of auction of BLM mustangs at 2018 Western States Horse Expo.  Where else are you going to get a saddle-started horse for $300?  On the other hand, the purchase price will seem small compared to the amount you’ll spend over his life.  Not to mention all the work…

You can also get inmate-trained mustangs through the Northern Nevada Correctional Center partnership with the BLM.  You can read about the last adoption here.  Next one set for 10/20/18.

If the video does not load, you can view it here.  H/T Friends of R3C.

A few more photos from Opening Day of the 2018 Western States Horse Expo.  See you next year!

A behind-the-scenes look at one of the workstations at WHWA.  Yep, three grain buckets and a notebook in one of the corrals.  Horses enjoy some oats and rice bran while your host enjoys some hops.  Photo taken 06/12/18 while working on post about water shortage at Sand Wash Basin HMA.

Wild Horses and burros will be available for adoption today and tomorrow at the National Cattle Congress in Waterloo, IA.  Refer to this report in the Black Hills Pioneer, posted 06/14/18.

Event will be held at the Pullin Simonsen Arena.

Posters!  Maybe?

Saddle-trained mustangs will be available for adoption this weekend at Napa Mustang Days according to a news release dated 06/14/18 in the The Union.

Mustangs trained by inmates at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center were offered for adoption last weekend at the Western States Horse Expo in Sacramento, CA.

BLM wild horse posters may be available at this event.

Refer to this story in the Telluride Daily Planet, posted 06/12/18.  Known as ‘Mustang Maddy’ in the horse world, she appeared on the cover of the May/June issue of Cowgirl magazine.

Her FB page includes a video dedicated to mustangs.

See also this article in Cowgirl about her work with wild horses.