Sulphur Horse adoption coming up

[angelsdream]

Just thought Id post this -

www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/ut/natural_resources/wild_horses_and_burros/adoption.Par.43220.File.dat/09%20Sulphur%20Flyer%201.pdf

[Michelle Clarke]

Angel...I saw that there was an adoption coming up soon - like 400 something horses if I remember right are being or have been rounded up. I sure hope they will be able to find homes in these bad economic times.

[kigerfan]

That's a lot of wild horses to try to find homes for when there are so meany saddle horses out there for free or very little.

[barbhorses]

They had rounded up close to 400 but returned about half of that. It was an emergency gather as the HMA has little food on it.

Some quality Iberian horses will no doubt be available. However, there will also be mixed bred horses and the draft horses from really far south on the HMA. Will have to have a very good eye for old Spanish conformation to get a horse that was gathered east of Mountain Home Peak. Many people mistake large heads, big ears, taller, big heads with convex profiles, etc. etc. etc. as being Iberian. You can find that on the HMA. But it will be from the mixed Iberian herds.

[Michelle Clarke]

Weather, Economy Hit Utah Mustang Sale
by: Pat Raia
January 26 2009, Article # 13512
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A Bureau of Land Management (BLM) official credited wintry weather and the high costs of horsekeeping for lackluster results at a Jan. 24 Wild Horse and Burro sale in Delta, Utah. Of the 320 Spanish Mustangs offered from Utah's Sulphur Herd, only eight found buyers, netting the agency $725. In previous years, the Sulphur herd horses have fetched as much as $3,000 each. The sale group had been gathered in November.

[DianneC]

Since they are available now for $125 with a $25 buddy perhaps more of them will find good homes.

[desperatehorsewife]

$25 buddies often don't work well; Oregon stopped because people were ignoring the second horse.

I'm really interested to see how the Makeover horse adoptions go this year.

[barbhorses]

People said that some of the roads were blocked to get to the adoption and that if the adoption was held a few months later that they would have gone.

I would like to go out and see some of the Spanish horses. No doubt there are still plenty left along with all of the drafts and mixed breds.

[Michelle Clarke]

I think it was possibly the worse time to go ahead and try to move those horses...hopefully once they get moving to the other adoptions they will get good homes.

[fantasykiger]

I don't understand winter adoptions, why not get the horses out during peek season when they are looking good fat and sassy, mare and foal pairs and such could be adopted out during the spring and summer. Not only that roads are clear and everyone has feed readily available, as well as incentive to get out and spend time with the new project in the nice weather. BLM knows in the spring that the upcoming winter is not going to support the number of wild horses in the herd or at least has a pretty good idea, I would think.

[rubymountainkigers]

A lot of when the gathers are done depends on if the Field Offices Gather Plans get approved and if funding is available to do the gather. The State Office of the BLM lets the Field Offices know if their gather plans have been approved, if they have funding and when they can do the gather. The Washington Office of the BLM tells the State Offices the same thing. The chain of command runs from the Washington Office to the State Office to the Field Office. So the folks in the Field Offices really don't have a whole lot of say. I think what happened this year was there was a lot of on again/off again going on with the gathers. Sort of like listening to a play by play of a hockey game. Some of the Field Offices were told you can gather but you will have to hold the horses indefinately rather than have an adoption. In some cases the Wild Horse Specialists in the Field Offices were told they could gather in November or later or if they passed they might have to wait another three years to get funding for a gather and maybe it wouldn't come.. Oregon and Idaho State Offices put together a points paper to be sent to the Washington Office stating why they needed to be able to gather some of the HMAs. There tends to be a lot to it behind the scenes and even though the folks in the Field Offices would like to do things when the weather is best for conducting gathers, the foals are old enough that there is less likelihood of having leppy foals and the more horses are likely to be adopted things don't always work out that way for them.

[stlkigers]

I imagine if you are have to do an adoption of any HMA in the winter, the most attended would be either a Kiger or Sulphur adoption....And this could be positive in the aspect that now someone unable to attend the adoption might get to adopt one since I have heard they will now put some of them on the internet adoption....I do know they probably needed to move the horses out of the holding facility as they have a huge gather of the Cedar Mountain HMA as well......

Angela

[fantasykiger]

UGH! ....all that red tape. It is no wonder frustration abounds.

[barbhorses]

The HMA was gathered due to an emergency. There is not enough feed on the HMA to support the amount of horses on the HMA. That is why that had to gather at such an inopportune time. I just wish I had some land so that I could buy some nice Spanish horses.... if only!

[barbhorses]

Thought I would share the photos that the BLM is posting of the Sulphurs. There are some really nice Iberian type horses and some not so nice. There is one stud that looks like a Spanish Norman! lol

www.blm.gov/adoptahorse/onsitegallery.php?horseCategory=152

The horses display a different style of Spanish head. More refined, but very much still Iberian. Nice rounded butts on most. I can't wait to see what else the BLM posts! If anyone is interested in the last remnant of California's Spanish horses, then this would be a great time to get a nice Iberian horse for cheap!