I have 9 BLM horses. 4 were AI (adoption incentive) 4 were SA (sale authority) and one someone got for me from a killbuyer.
When my 1 year anniversary came up on July 1 for the first three AI, BLM sent a representative up from southern MO. He had a form/questionnaire and he had some required photos he needed to take. Fencing, waterers, hay, and the horses body, brand, hooves. He had me halter them and pick up their feet too. He was ONLY concerned with the three that came-due and zero interest in the sale authority mustangs or my domestic herd. Though i did have them all in from pasture and availableā¦actually they were wandering all around his car when we were finished, so he did see them lol.
I donāt know what the answer is actually. If it were up to me, i would not allow sheep and cattle to graze the public ranges. More antelope, more horses and donks. And Bison! Lots of bison⦠But not privately owned animals. As for the fencing requirements, even though i have quite a bit of real-estate enclosed in my mustang mondo panels, not once yet have they been necessary. If you donāt pressure these horses, they donāt react. Butā¦again, the cowboy way, the old-fashioned way, of breaking would indeed put even my panels to a test iām betting. And since the wild-wild west is still the place where most of the adopters/buyers areā¦where the mustang acceptance and awareness is, well, they are going to need the 6ā
The adoptions/sales make sense. Itās either that or sell them to meat buyers, or shoot them or let them starve. But gosh, there are a ton of non-horse-savvy people that get themselves a mustang. Some take to itā¦most have a lot of trouble.
It really doesnāt take much to keep them though. Not many people have the land i have, but i gotta say, ALL of my horses spend the majority of their time in the barns, in front of the giant floor fans and pretty much only graze from 8pm til 9am. Because of heat/humidity and horseflies. The mustangs have completely adjusted to being ākept horsesā ā¦