How to approach wild horses

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Wild Horses Need Humane Horse Handling the access and overpopulation problems explained.

How to approach wild horses. Wild Horses Need Humane Horse Handling the access and overpopulation problems explained. Reliably and humanely accessing free-living wild and feral horse horses is the biggest barrier to effective population control for the Bureau of Land Management BLM and other organizations charged with managing free-roaming horses in the United States and other countries. In answer to your second question the major aspect of protection is prevention.

Keep a safe distance between you and any wild horses you come across - this article suggests 50 feet as a good minimum distance. Obviously the more horses there are the less threatened they will tend to feel therefore keep a greater distance. A wild horse can be tamed and domesticated with careful training.

All horses can be tamed when given the right proper training. Basic training can be done in around a months time by an experienced handler. Hereafter the horse can be ridden by experienced riders.

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Our approach presents a nonlethal pathway toward a more responsible and humane wild horse and burro program. This requires lowering on-range population numbers closer to agency-determined appropriate management levels by removing and relocating some animals to more humane long-term care areas stabilizing and reducing population growth rates on the range and increasing adoptions. The mustangs and domestics greeting each other over the fence prior to being separated into the three pens.

Before I got my mustangs a wild-horse experienced friend told me that horses raised in the wild can be quite different than domestic horses even domestics who have never been handled or around humans much.