Captive breeding has helped preserve the last breed of wild horse on Earth, but it has also altered the Przewalksi horse's gene pool. From: The Christian Science Monitor By: Corey Fedde The world’s last wild horses, the Przewalksi’s horses, might help us understand the effect domestication has...
Below are a couple of news articles on the wild horse contraceptive debate. The research on the effects of PZP on wild horses is often over looked by officials promoting its use. As pointed out in the comments in one of the articles, consecutive PZP...
What horse welfare issues are of biggest concern to you? This poll, by TheHorse.com, lists the variety of issues all horse lovers are thinking about : unwanted horses, horse slaughter, horse soring, wild horses and horse drawn carriages. The statements by many who took the...
This is indeed good news - and a long time in coming for these horses who are being pushed by humans into a smaller and smaller area. ~ HFH From: The Columbus Dispatch As the tourist season approaches on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, there’s a growing hope...
We have a number of people who write very thought provoking responses to the articles we post here on Habitat for Horses. Janet Curtis's response to "Wild horse advocates disagree on contraceptives for mustangs" is also rational, intriguing - overall extremely well written. We are...
If the Bureau of Land Management removes these young horses from the Pryor Mountain range, they will be violating their own recommendation of leaving one offspring per mare on the range. Leave these wild mustangs be! **Follow Up on Spring Fundraiser** The Percheron Crossbred Beau has...
Are the wild horses and burros living on National Park Service lands not protected by the 1971 Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act? Just a thought, since the article below makes it seem like in some of our National Parks, officials could just go...
Wild horses and cattle rancher's grazing leases - many people have heard those two topics on the news. How cattle ranchers are demanding more land, and for the wild horses to be removed. It is not like the wild horses have any place to go....
It could also be that wild horses are perhaps smarter than their domestic counterparts. Living in the wild develops skills and abilities that a domestic horse does not get a chance to learn. What are your thoughts - do you have experience with wild horses?...
Bless the BLM for all the brainpower that comes up with these brilliant ideas. Ignore the budget, pay a bunch of people to round up wild horses, throw in a few helicopters, haul the horses to holding pens where they are crammed together with no...