BATTLE MOUNTAIN BLM FIELD OFFICE (CENTRAL NEVADA)

BATTLE MTN District is in GREEN Click on either map for an enlargement

HERD MANAGEMENT AREAS IN NUMERICAL ORDER:
(These are all numbered in the 600's)

NV604 Callaghan

Several Curly mustangs have come out of the Callahan herd, too.

NV 605 Rocky Hills

Handsome, from Rocky Hills, adopted by Johnnie Forquer

 

Angie, 14.1hh, adopted by Karen R of Missouri

The Desatoya horses that I have are very well muscled, about 14 hands in height. The heads are plain and convex but the brain capacity is good, they are no dullards, that's for sure. Conformationally the bodies are similar to a QH. The colt, now two, along with another Nevada-bred two-year-old, are my granddaughter's Parelli projects.  

Sometimes these two appear to have champagne coloration, they are buckskin duns, but there's a little more going on in there.

- Bettye Roberts

 
Desatoya Internet Adoption horses

- Pam Respini 

Bullfrog NV 629

Bruce and Debbie Sheuring write:

"We have 2 mustang boys (geldings)  who were adopted in Oct. 2000, through a BLM auction. We live in Blackshear, GA. The auction was in Waycross, 10 miles away, at the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp. 

Your experience with Ruby was so similar to ours; we too had no corral, but we bought some panels and were setting them up as they arrived in my friend's trailer....Both were weanlings, and not the flashy ones everyone wanted (thank goodness, that made them affordable!). 

We went the evening before, and met a very nice ranger, who, upon finding out that our youngest daughter is special needs (inoperable brain tumor, seizures), walked us around the corrals and had us write down numbers of some of the horses that he said the rangers "worked with in their spare time." 

The next day, armed with our list, we bid on our top 2 "suggestions" and got our boys.  A friend of mine who had adopted several horses and burros though the years offered lots of help too, including trailering them out to us.  

I guess we're lucky, but we've had no real problems with them.  Our older daughter is teaching them to ride (a good mixture, they're teaching her too, she's active in 4H, and is trying Western & English)  They haven't had any serious health problems either. 

Both were born at the Palomino Valley, NV holding facility in March of 2000.  They're 5 days apart in age.  Our older daughter has written the BLM to find out more about their lineage, and both mothers were captured in the Battle Mountain area.  Sugar is a sorrel bay, and probably a curly coat, as well as having a particularly smooth gait.  We hope some day to have him DNA tested. 

The BLM told us a large number of curly coats are in that area, and the lady who made the follow-up inspection felt that he was one of those.  His coat is certainly different from other horses, and friends who are normally allergic to horses are able to even groom him with no problems.  Bandit is very unusual looking as well, with lots of striping, and his coat changes periodically so that he looks totally different.  He is grulla sometimes, and even will have little lemony color spots on his coat.  He never photographs quite like he looks.  Physically, he looks alot like the Sorrias sp? with the big head, and that type of conformation. 

Both are so gentle and sweet, and very intelligent.  Bandit particularly is a clown, and teases every chance he gets.  Sugar is very curious and people-oriented, as well as being the alpha.  Both would come into the house and live if they could wipe their feet...LOL

Bandit

Bandit & Sugar

Daughter April riding Sugar

"OUTSIDE HMA" - Battle Mountain District:

Cliff Tipton mounts Bo for the first time as Bo remains curious and calm.