Home
Adopt A Mustang Wild Horse
Mustang Link to History
Herd Management Areas
Burros!
Mustang Mules
Mustang History
How to Gentle A Wild Horse
Our "Wild" Horse Herd
Mustang * Horse Colors
Videos from Video Mike
Mustang & Burro Events
The Future?
Mustang Links
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.
Please direct adoption questions to the BLM, not to me. And we sure as heck are not a Mustang car dealership! | This website:
Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
All Rights Reserved.
I am happy to share, but please give me a credit when you "borrow" things off my website! Thanks! Just say, "author, Nancy Kerson www.mustangs4us.com " |
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?
No Problem!
Just Call TOLL FREE
1-877-345-6748
(1-877-FILMS4U)
____________________
Can't do Paypal?
No Problem!
Just Call TOLL FREE
1-877-345-6748
(1-877-FILMS4U)
 
If you don't want to buy online, Call TOLL FREE
1-877-345-6748
(1-877-FILMS4U)
|
| | | PALOMINO
is Red (sorrel, chestnut, "ee") diluted by one Creme Gene.
The US Marine Corps uses only Palomino BLM former wild mustangs for their mounted color guard.Unlike Flaxen Chestnuts, which look very similar, Palominos do not breed true. Breeding two palominos together will result in the following possibilities, 50% palomino, 25% sorrel/chestnut and 25% cremello. It doesn't matter if the Palominos are dark or light, the ratios remain the same. The most dependable producer of Palomino offspring is a Cremello, bred to a Red (sorrel, chestnut). This cross will produce one red gene and one creme gene - the formula for Palomino - every time. See: Palomino or Flaxen Chestnut?
 | 
Palominos look "blonde" with golden bodies and light blonde to white manes and tails.
Bear, a golden Palomino owned by Judy Goulet
 | BUCKSKIN
is BAY diluted by one Creme gene. Light tan, light brown, or light red body (frequently dappled) Black mane, tail , & lower legs (guard hairs along edge of mane and tail may be very light, due to the extra bleaching effect of Creme on very coarse hair) Dark skin & eyes
Buckskin requires three genetic layers: black base, bay modifier, and the creme gene Buckskins and Duns look very much alike, with these differences: Buckskins do not have the dun factors of true dorsal stripe, "tiger" or "zebra" stripes on their legs, shoulder bars, or cob-webbing. Buckskins, but not Duns, are frequently dappled.
The most obvious difference between a Dun and a Buckskin is the presence or absence of a dorsal stripe. But this can be tricky: Buckskins often have "counter-shading" created by the Sooty gene - which mimics a dorsal stripe. Buckskin vs Dun
| 
Buckskin mare at Palomino Valley BLM Center
Light dappled buckskin owned by Gail from Tennessee
Benny, a buckskin mustang from Buck & Bald HMA in East-Central Nevada
|
SMOKEY BLACK is Black with one Creme dilution gene. Smokey Black horses look like any other horse with black genetics. The creme dilution on Black is so slight as to go unnoticed most of the time. The only way you know that a horse is a Smokey Black is if the horse produces offspring that can only result from a parent carrying the Creme gene. OR, a new Creme gene test is available from UC Davis, should you want positive identification. Smokey Blacks can produce the full range of Creme colors (depending on the base color of their mate): Smokey black, Buckskin, Palomino, Perlino, Cremello & Smokey Cream. | 
"Fancy", a Smokey BlackTennessee Walker mare owned by Elsie Darrah. |
| NOTE: The AQHA Registry has recently fixed a few mistakes: 1. They used to say that Buckskins had a dorsal stripe and Duns didn't. Exactly backwards! Many people still use that terminology, so many horses are labeled incorrectly. 2. They also now recognize the genetics behind the Creme gene, and will allow Cremellos and Perlinos to be registered. |
Single Cremes: Palomino, Buckskin, Smokey Black | Double Cremes
The Dilution Genes: Champagne | The Creme Gene | Dun | Silver Dapples | Dun or Buckskin? |
