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Working with Wild Horses
Second (Improved) Edition
A Handbook of
Gentling and Training Tips
By Nancy Kerson
Paperback $22 or
Downloadable E-Book $7.50 For more information about the BLM's Wild Horse and Burro Program, please call (866) 4MUSTANGS or Click HERE This website is owned and created by Nancy Kerson, a private citizen - I am not the BLM or any other branch of government! Information about BLM adoptions is offered as a service, to help mustangs find homes and to promote public appreciation of wild horses and burros.
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VIDEOS OF INTEREST TO MUSTANG & BURRO ADOPTERS:
Kitty Lauman:
From Wild to Willing: Using the Bamboo Pole to Gentle Mustangs
More from Lauman Training available now!DVD or VHS
(2-DVD or 2-VHS set) almost 3 hours of instruction! $39.95 plus $5 shipping/handling = $44.95 total 
Lesley Neuman:
The First Touch
Gentling Your Mustang
$45.00
Lesley works with 3 wild horses at a BLM adoption, and very clearly explains what is happening, what she is doing, & what she sees in each horse as it progresses. Study this video and you can learn "pressure and release" gentling techniques to gentle your own new mustang! 
Help for Burro adopters!
Crystal Ward
Donkey Training
All the basics of gentling, handling, and training. A MUST for new burro adopters! Good for domestic donkeys, too! Can't do Paypal?
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1-877-345-6748
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WILD HORSE GENTLING:
 
| | The DILUTION GENES are so-called because they DILUTE
(Think "Bleach"), rather than fundamentally change the base color.There are five currently known dilution genes: Cream, Champagne, Dun, Pearl and Silver. Cream is considered an "incomplete dominant" because the dilution effect is different, depending on whether there is a single or double "dose" of the gene. A single copy of Cream produces palominos, buckskins and smoky blacks. Two doses of Cream produce cremellos, perlinos and smoky creams. Pearl is recessive; two copies of the gene or one copy of Pearl and one of Cream, are needed to see the dilution effect on the coat color. Some people say they can discern a slight effect with just one copy, so Pearl may be an incomplete recessive. Champagne, Dun and Silver are dominants (only one copy needed) and do not show a dosage effect. The Dilution Genes include: Champagne Creme Dun Silver Dapples Pearl NOTE: The AQHA has recently fixed a number of mistakes from about 20 years ago (decisions made before modern genetic information was available). They used to say that Buckskins had a dorsal stripe and Duns didn't. That is why you see so many Duns by Palominos and those Duns going on to produce Palominos.
Other Pages In the Color Section of this Website:The Base Colors: Champagne | Creme | Dun | Silver Dapples | Pearl Major Headings: A Quick Overview of Horse Genetics | Horse Color Genetics Charts 2 | Equine Base Colors | Dominant Horse Color Genes | The Dilution Genes | Recessive Color Genes | Miscellaneous Color Issues The Single Dominant Genes: Agouti | Appaloosa | Brindle |Champagne | Dun | Grey | Pangare | Pintos | Rabicano | Roans & Roaning | Silver | Sooty | The Pinto Patterns: Tobiano | The Overo Complex: Frame | Sabino | Splash | Tovero The Incomplete Dominant Genes: Creme The Recessive Genes: Red | Flaxen Colors with multiple genetic bases: Blue | Brown | White | Roan-like Effects Buckskin vs Dun
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