Mustangs (The Horse) ?
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Topic: Mustangs (The Horse) ?
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Subject: Mustangs (The Horse) ?
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2020 at 8:05pm
| Just started watching an HBO movie about cons and mustangs. Are these animals native to the American continent ? |
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Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2020 at 8:08pm
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Mustang - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org › wiki › Mustang The mustang is a free-roaming horse of the Western United States, descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish. Mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, but because they are descended from once-domesticated horses, they are actually feral animals. Spanish Mustang · Kiger mustang · Pryor Mountain mustang · |
Posted By: ocharry
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2020 at 10:24pm
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I have a buddy that adopted a couple of those things...been a few years back....them is some CRAZY SOBs....he finally had to get rid of them....wild is a understatement My .02 Ocharry |
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2020 at 1:41am
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I adopted one for my children and he was wild, he was a leader and a smart horse, you couldn't touch him at first and the kids named him Thunder. Had cows at that time and he was kept in the dairy barn with the cows in a pen with walls that went from the floor to the ceiling because if he got out all of Pennsylvania wold have been his home. He seen us milk and work with the cows and in no time he came around. Started to ride him in the comfort stall barn on the concrete floor up and down the drive way and feed alleys with just baler twine tied to the halter for reins so all we needed was a bosal. He respected the electric fence as much as I did after peeing on it when I was about five years old! The first time I rode him outside in the pasture there was about ten inches of snow on the ground so he couldn't get good traction. Eventually, my one daughter became his special buddy, taking him swimming in the pond, teaching him to drink out of a cup, he would come when we would whistle and giving him treats. A wonderful sight to see a pretty blonde with long hair riding through the meadow bareback. He was a four year old gelding when we got him and died when twenty nine, very sad day. There is a lot more pleasure to this story this will be all for now. Nella
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2020 at 6:33am
That's awesome! 
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nella(Pa) wrote:Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2020 at 7:38am
| Years ago I remember Dad telling about a TV program about taming wild horses. Said they put the horse in a big box then filled the box with either wheat or corn. That's how they broke the horses. |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2020 at 8:38am
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James A Michener tells the story of the horse in his fine novel Centennial. Been a few years since I read it. Pretty sure horses evolved here in the Americas then crossed the land bridge to Asia. Went extinct here and were reintroduced by Europeans. That's the condensed version. |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2020 at 6:14pm
The HBO movie was based on true facts. Sadly, some could not be "broke" and subsequently euthanized  .
BEAUTIFUL animals though
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2020 at 7:07pm
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THere was a breed of "horse" in the US ( continent) 4 million years ago.. They crossed over the bridge to Asia 2 million years ago... Original became extinct in the US about that time... Spanish brought their horses to the continent in 1500s. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: ford8nwd
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2020 at 7:39am
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Years ago, I was the bookkeeper for the largest mink ranch in the country, and one of the things that went into mink feed was horsemeat from out west. At that time, 1960s, it was legal to round up wild horses and butcher them for mink food. We used to get countless semi-loads of frozen horsemeat, among many other things, whalemeat, denatured turkeys covered in purple dye, fish racks, slunks [unborn calves] nutria. At the peak they were feeding 56,000 pounds of groundup feed a day. It was quite an operation. I left there in 1970 for greener pastures. |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2020 at 9:03am
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very small mink farm east of town where I grew up way west of town.. anytime you went that direction the smell was not so good. maybe from what they were feeding as well as the mink themselves? I know, we are getting away from horses. ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2020 at 9:56am
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Vast differences in wild horses. Common practice from late 1800's to the 1960's was for ranchers to turn a stallion of known history out into the wild horses. So I don't know how much DNA from current wild horses would be similar to the Spanish horses. Since the government has taken over management of wild horses and done nothing except let them over populate the range. Most are very inbreed and not good for much other than mink food sadly. But always a few that may be worth something. The outside of a horse is good for the insides of man. I don't know if that was from a cowboy philosopher or much older than cowboys but a grain of truth. So hopefully the horses and prisoners all gain from the experience.
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Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2020 at 10:30am
| all those wild horses south west of me are a gigantic problem they strip the desert just like you run a disc through it at least a cow moves on the theme horses will eat the roots its know wonder their is no habitat for the sage grouse because it sure isnt the cattlemen witch are allways trying to improve the range and make the grasses thrive |