Friendship and Foes

The following post is from the Youths’ Equine Alliance.

What would we do without friends? True friends that support us through thick and thin! We want to thank everyone who supported our most recent efforts at the Broken Arrow tour. We were able to document the Fish Creek mares that were there and also the stallions that were at another Nevada facility.

Here is some first-hand information we received on the tour:
– Many mares are due to foal immediately
– Two mares have already aborted due to stresses of the roundup and the extreme adjustments of life in captivity (including food and environment change which causes undue stress on the horses.)
– The stallions remain intact.
– Both mares and stallions had drastically different attitudes than the rest of the horses in holding. For instance the majority of horses in holding are “hungry” for affection and they will look at you and at times approach you directly for a sniff or a muzzle rub. However the Fish Creek mares and stallions remained at a cautious distance with a stiff, alert, and confounded demeanor.

For a report on the tour, we couldn’t say it better than our friends at Wild Horse Education. Please take a minute to read Laura’s account of the tour.