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Palomino Valley Wild Horse & Burro Center is the Bureau of Land Management's largest facility for wild horses and burros gathered from public lands.
We visited PALOMINO VALLEY BLM WILD HORSE CENTER for the first time on January 30, 2001, and we return there every so often, just to look, or to adopt. Here are pages with photos and information about this and other Nevada wild horse & burro holding facilities.
These horses are from the Granite Range Herd Management Area (HMA) just south of Calico Mtn HMA in north-western Nevada. They were gathered January 25 and 26, 2001, and at the time of this photo they were not yet branded or sorted into age and gender groups.
Palomino Valley can hold over 2000 horses at peak times. Most are shipped out within a short time to the various adoption centers in the mid-western and eastern states, or to long-term holding facilities.
While the horses and burros are at Palomino Valley, they are available for adoption. Just call ahead to make an appointment, and someone will show you around and help you adopt the horse or burro of your choice. (Be aware, however, that there will be a time delay between when you do the paperwork and when you actually get the horse - they have to have the state vet come out to examine it and the brand inspector has to inspect the brand, and that takes a few days) |
Going right to the BLM holding facility for "walk-up" adoption is an excellent way to adopt, especially if you have a specific color or herd area in mind, if there are no sceduled adoptions coming to your neighborhood, or if you don't want to wait for an adoption to come to your area. This is how we adopted Sparky and Benny. Currently it costs $125 per horse, and, after one year of good care, you get full title to the animal. |
Most of the horses at Palomino Valley in the winter of 2001 were from the Calico Mountains and Granite Range HMA's in Northwestern Nevada. We found the tremendous variety of coloration in these horses to be very exciting.
 These light "buckskins" are actually duns - they have zebra striping on their legs and a dorsal stripe under all that winter fur. |
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(June, 2005 - this horse is now "Harley" and is the pride and joy of Cindy McMurry)
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 This little filly was already so tame that I could pet her. At the time, she was already adopted, but I later found out her adopters changed their minds. |
MORE PIX FROM VISITS TO PALOMINO VALLEY:
