[dallasbarnone]

It makes me sick to see them catching those wild horses- they can't just leave them alone-gotta grab the land for the omighty dollar and screw that up too. There is no domestic bred horse that can keep up with a mustang - if you took any breed and threw it out to run with that herd- they would never make the first winter - they would either go lame-colic- freeze or break a leg, or run into a tree and kill themselves for lack of brains. Like everything else- horses are going to be diluted down to a inbred mess and then we( human race) will be looking for mustangs to breed back to and get strength again- and there wont be any. Everything thats been learned about natural horse training- trimming -and health has been from going back to see how the mustangs do it- so i guess now that we know it all- we dont need them anymore... use them up and throw them out. With all the horse people in the world if everyone stuck together and raised enough **** about what they are doing - it could be stopped.
Sorry about going on- but even though i dont have a mustang- ive worked with some and they are an awesome animal.

[Aubra]

I'm a supporter of the land management- they've already made the land grab, now they're just making sure the mustangs can still thrive.

Besides, if they didn't do round ups, where would I have got MY baby?

I have a six y.o. mustang, and his hooves are large, extremely hard, and the mud actually cakes up in his hooves, solidifies, and then falls out in one big piece. I notice that he has much shallower hooves than my POA, who has had thrush a couple of times just from marshy conditions in his turnout (who ever put the barn at the BOTTOM of the hill, just lemme at him. x.x) Also, though we worm him regularly, he never seems to need it, also unlike the pony.

[EqUeStRiAn]

One word: Domestication-wild horses have adapted themselves to their surroundings, domestication has made it so that horses nolonger need some of those adaptations (like Strong self-cleaning feet). Our "pampering" has caused the species to become dependent on our actions to trim, shoe and clean their feet. Over time it has created a wide gap between wild and domestic animals.

[philly78]

I never pick my horses feet, the only time they get it done is when the farrier comes out I clean them for him and if I ride on a gravel road, none of my horses have ever had thrush!

[BarebackJourney]

Gizmo - Just because mustang's aren't dewormed doesn't mean they don't get worms. I've heard of major deworming done to mustangs and other regular unwormed horses because they have so many in their system they can't process their food. That's how some wild horses will die of starvation. Others hold up a better immune to it.

[luckylady]

Well to be brutally honest, we as humans have worms and how often do we deworm ourselves?? I can honestly say I've only done it twice. Anyone else????

[SaddleCutie]

dallasbarnone wrote a very good explanation.

[dakota's_sable]

Originally Posted by philly78

I never pick my horses feet, the only time they get it done is when the farrier comes out I clean them for him and if I ride on a gravel road, none of my horses have ever had thrush!

I do the exact same thing, philly78. I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one. Both my horses have very strong feet and have never had thrush either.

[Linssue55]

The wild horses feet are tended by the ground keeping them ground down and in almost perfect shape. They don't have any nails pounded in their feet that weaken the hoof walls. Nature takes care of this.

And there was a study years ago I read in Equus on wild mustangs about worms, and they found through the study that the wild horses they previuosly tested that had worms, no longer had them. The reason for this that in the tracking and watching of these horses, they found the horses eating "Shale" which contributed to them no longer having worms. there is something in shale (mineral properties) that the horses knew they needed. Very interesting.

[Linssue55]

Originally Posted by dallasbarnone

It makes me sick to see them catching those wild horses- they can't just leave them alone-gotta grab the land for the omighty dollar and screw that up too. There is no domestic bred horse that can keep up with a mustang - if you took any breed and threw it out to run with that herd- they would never make the first winter - they would either go lame-colic- freeze or break a leg, or run into a tree and kill themselves for lack of brains. Like everything else- horses are going to be diluted down to a inbred mess and then we( human race) will be looking for mustangs to breed back to and get strength again- and there wont be any. Everything thats been learned about natural horse training- trimming -and health has been from going back to see how the mustangs do it- so i guess now that we know it all- we dont need them anymore... use them up and throw them out. With all the horse people in the world if everyone stuck together and raised enough **** about what they are doing - it could be stopped.
Sorry about going on- but even though i dont have a mustang- ive worked with some and they are an awesome animal.

Excellent post!