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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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| | , according to some (I am not a scientist and do not know - only that I do hear from people who feel adamantly about this) 
left to right: White Mustang of undetermined genetics, Champagne+Creme "American Cream Draft" horse, Perlino Mustang, and Maximum Sabino Mustang
White and Whitish Horses
| WHITE HORSES
are the usually end result of THE GREY GENE's progressive greying process, or the purest expression of the CREME or CHAMPAGNE genesMost horses that appear white are actually "grey", meaning they were born another color and then turned grey as the pigment was gradually eliminated by the "grey" gene. Cremello "White" horses are pink-skinned and blue-eyed. WHITE
can also be Dominant White.
"Dominant White" is a genetic allele that produces a pure white horse with pink skin and dark eyes.
Dominant White horse (photo: UC Davis)This is an uncommon gene, however, though there are horse breeders who specialize in it. | Horses that appear white may be cremello, gray, perlino, ivory champagne, or an extreme form of one of the appaloosa or pinto patterns, in which the colored areas are so small as to be virtually invisible. There may also be a true "Dominant White" gene. It is caused by a dominant allele that is an embryonic lethal in homozygous form. So all white horses are Ww, and WW foals are never born. Scientists haven't located the gene on the DNA of horses yet, but it most likely does exist--some farms are breeding for it now. Please note that, despite common usage of the term, true "Albino" horses do not exist, or have never been documented to exist. A true Albino would have pink eyes - albinism is the total lack of any pigment, including the kind and eyes. Horses called Albino are usually cremello - pale cream color with blue eyes. LETHAL WHITE: There is a particular genetic disorder, always fatal, that occurs in certain pure white foals. It is called OVERO LETHAL WHITE SYNDROME (OLWS). It results from two Frame Overo parents who each carry - and pass on to the foal - the recessive gene that is associated with the lovely Frame Overo pinto color pattern. Overo Lethal White foals are born alive, but die soon after birth. They result from the doubling up of the Fame gene. Any white horse weanling or older is NOT a lethal white. Sabino and Tovero can occur in maximal form, called Maximum Sabino and Maximum Tovero. These horses appear as pure white horses from birth. They may have one or a few tiny dark spots somewhere on their body, or they may not. For this reason, when a pure white foal is born, DO NOT DESTROY IT until you are sure that it is a Lethal White!!! |
Maximum Sabino foal
"Gretchen," adopted by Gwilda Byrd, may be a Dominant White. She has pink skin, pure white hair, and dark eyes. However, Maximum Sabino may also have these traits.
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