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This is a non-commercial, independent website, owned and written by Nancy Kerson, for the benefit of actual and potential adopters of BLM Mustangs and Burros and similar animals.

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Working With Wild Horses, Second Edition
Working With Wild Horses
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This website is owned and created
by Nancy Kerson, a private
citizen - I am not the BLM or anyother 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.

For information about the BLM
Wild Horse & Burro Program,
please call (866) 4MUSTANGS
or Click HERE

Please direct adoption questions
to the BLM, not to me.

And I sure as heck am not a
Mustang car dealership!

I have NO horses or burros for
sale and am not interested in
buying or listing or otherwise
promoting your sale animals!

This website:
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2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
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I am happy to share, but please
give me a credit when you
"borrow" things off my website!
Thanks!

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

BUY 2 DVD Set:

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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!

Format:


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!

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Litchfield BLM Corrals

Litchfield Corrals:
Doug Satica, Litchfield Facility Manager Wild Horse and Burro Program
Phone   (530)254-6673
Cell        (530)310-3261
Fax         (530)254-6762

These pictures were taken April 8, 2008

We visited the Litchfield Corrals on our way home from camping in early September, 2006. At the time they had horses left over from the Devils Garden and Coppersmith gathers, as well as new ones from Twin Peaks and a little-known USFS area up near Klamath Falls, called Sisters. The Sisters horses were large, very drafty horses and also quite gentle - three of the mares came right up to us, curious and unafraid. The Twin Peaks horses are large and elegant, testimony to their Cavalry Re-Mount and Old Spanish ancestry.

More recent gathers that have brought horses to Litchfield include High Rock, Nut Mountain, Wall Canyon and other Northern California HMA's, South Shoshone and Buffalo Hills in Nevada and Alvord-Tule, Sheepshead, and Coyote Lakes in Oregon. In 2010, Litchfield expects to receive horses from the popular Twin Peaks HMA.


Two friendly and curious mares greet Michael at the Litchfield Corrals in September.

I later heard that this mare went to the Eureka adoption and was adopted!

 

 


Twin Peaks also has a few appaloosas


Twin Peaks is also a producer of donkeys - AND MULES!!!

 

Thanks to Karen Floyd for the following pix of weanlings at Litchfield in 2007:



These pictures were taken November 5, 2006. At this time the staff at Litchfield have not yet decided for sure which weanlings will be in the Special Adoption.

  

NOTE ABOUT THE LITCHFIELD MULES:

Wild Mules should only be adopted by people with exceptional experience and ability - they are much trickier to gentle and train than wild horses and burros and you can really mess them up - and get messed up! Don't do it just for the novelty - do it only if you know and love mules and know how to work with both mules and wild equids!

At right: Will, Lesley Neuman's "Blue Mule" from Twin Peaks. Below: Lesley works with a wild mule at a BLM adoption

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Disclaimer: Horses are inherently dangerous. Use the information contained within this website at your own risk.