How to adopt and train a wild horse by NorthernSkye

"a happy experience"

How I did it: I saw this goal in BringMeThunder's list and figured I should mark it as done.
There is a wild mustang herd up on Pink Mountain near Alaska. Every few years the owner of the lands rounds up 50-100 mares and foals to sell at auction (unfortunately they also are forced to shoot a few of the stallions I am told to help population control) :(
One year I was at one of these auctions and I bought a 10 month old stud colt for my daughter. I bought him for 40$ as the meat buyers didn't even want him he was so emaciated. But with any horse- e took our time, loved him lots and he is now a beautiful (mostly lol ) well trained horse that is a wonderful addition to our family:)

Lessons & tips: ... just like any animal - slow and steady

Resources: Natural horsemanship


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Oct 24, 2009, 09:53AM PDT | 5 comments | 30 cheers


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BringMeThunder your breath, your bugs, your bones

I am so

inspired by this! He truly has come such a long way from skin and bones—he is absolutely beautiful.

Oct 24, 2009, 07:25PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

NorthernSkye plotting and planning against you, bitch:)

I should

try to find a post of pic of what he looked like when we got him home:) A huge differance. This day he took third prize for halter class:)

Oct 25, 2009, 09:12AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Mr. Means Naturaleza Muerta

These kinds of things remind me that there are still wonderful people out there that do simply amazing things with their lives (like adopt wild horses for 40 bucks! :) )

That is amazing. Speaking of colts….GO INDIANAPOLIS COLTS!! ;)

Feb 07, 2010, 10:25AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

NorthernSkye plotting and planning against you, bitch:)

:) Thanks

We try… sometimes we are in the right place at the right time and it benefits a poor little critter who needs us. Then again after bringing in the last 2 colts… well the one still didn’t fare well despite our hardest efforts:(
But! Happy to say the other is thriving and getting really big! ... damn now I need to go take new pics;)
Yes.. go colts go! :) lol

Feb 07, 2010, 10:44AM PST | Respond to this

gottawonder Loves her tortoise!

Way to go! Adopting a wild horse shows others that it’s possible, and that they are not “junk”. I lived in Wyoming for awhile, and a lot of people had BLM horses that were gorgeous.

I knew one horse trainer who took a 16 hh seven year old stallion and turned him into a great horse for working the pens at the BLM horse holding area. Can you imagine? He was a pretty brave guy, though, and also rode bulls.

Jan 15, 2011, 12:09AM PST | Respond to this


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