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This website is owned and created by Nancy Kerson, a private citizen. 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! $49.95 plus $5 shipping/handling = $54.95 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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Cheryl Kavicky & her Flaxen Chestnut Haflinger, Donny | 
Palomino Mustang |
Palomino and Flaxen Chestnut horses can look very much alike. There is a genetic difference, however. Palomino is a Red-based horse with the Creme gene, which dilutes the body from chestnut to golden, and dilutes the points to very pale gold, even white. Flaxen chestnut is a red-based horse with the Flaxen gene, which turn its points to light gold or white. Flaxen Chestnuts, when bred to one another, breed true. They produce more Flaxen Chestnuts. The Haflinger is an example of such a breed. This is because Red and Flaxen will only manifest if they are homozygous for that gene; i.e. Red results only when there are two "e" genes. A single "E" will overpower it, resulting in a black horse. Flaxen, the other Recessive color gene, only affects Red. Flaxen on a Black base coat has no effect. Since Flaxen Chestnuts are homozygous for both red and flaxen, they will always reproduce flaxen and chestnut. Palomino, however, does not breed true. If two Palominos (each contributing one red and one creme gene to the new foal) are bred together, the resulting offspring will be: 25% chestnut, 50% Palomino, and 25% Cremello. | | e | Ccr | | e | ee | eCcr | | Ccr | eCcr | CcrCcr |
The only way to reliably produce Palomino is to breed Chestnut to Cremello. | | Ccr | Ccr | | e | eCcr | eCcr | | e | eCcr | eCcr |
Mustangs with no known ancestry cannot always be identified for certain, as to whether they are deep palominos or light flaxen chestnuts. | FLAXEN CHESTNUT | PALOMINO | 
Calico Mtns | 
Calico Mtns | 
Nellis (Nevada Wild Horse Range) | 
Calico Mtns | 
Calico Mtns | 
Calico Mtns | | | | | | |
Up | Palomino or Flaxen Chestnut? | Brindle | Brown | White Up Agouti/Bay | Grey | Pangare | White Spotting Patterns | Rabicano | Roan | Sooty | Miscellaneous Color Issues |
