Unloading Ace BLM Wild Mustang Stallion

This is ace, our mustang stallion. I adopted him Friday, April 24th 2009. This is unloading him from the blm. He has never been touched, lead, or petted.

****Note**** If you are going to comment on the lead rope after 11/7/2010 your comment will be deleted. I am tired of constantly having to answer to comments about it. For the last time. The BLM adoption center here in NV REQUIRES you to have a halter and lead rope on the horse before they put him in the trailer. Basically because a bunch of novices ended up with a horse that they had no idea how to gentle and then complained after three years they still couldn't catch the horse. Now I'm not going to even address that issue because first of all if you don't have basic horse knowledge you shouldn't be anywhere near a wild horse. So you have to have a halter and lead rope on or you don't bring home the horse. They put in on in the chute before they load the horse. They usually wrap it around their neck and feed it through the halter, but out of all the horses I have brought home from the blm ALL OF THE LEADS came loose before we got home, and we only live 20 minutes away. So, yeah it sucks you have to have one on but you do. I got it off him pretty quickly and started halter breaking him. It is NOT on there as a drag for them to get used to it touching their legs etc. I don't even do that with my foals so there is no way I would do it with a wild horse. Plus with the type of panel I use it can get caught pretty easily so first task is to get it off. Now other questions or comments I welcome! Also there is a new updated video of him being ridden. (Not the third ride, but the one called update!) If your are interested click on my other videos and select it. Thanks guys!


Also, there are tons more pictures and updates on his blog at www.wildstallionace.blogspot.com enjoy!

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• wild
• mustang
• stallion
• blm
• pvc
• training
• natural
• horsemanship
• barehorsetraining

[bcmom5]

If you haven't had a mustang off the range, you have no right chastising us who have had mustangs off the range for anything we do including a dragline (leadrope). If you get too close to them in the beginning, they can and will take your head off with either end. So you must have a way to catch them to start the slow process of getting close to them. Or , in my case, doctor them. Ours were sick when we got them way back in 1977. We had to get meds into them. Good luck and good job.

[barehorsetraining]

@bcmom5 Thank you! It's ridiculous how petty people can be on here, when they have no experience in this area!

[Shalome207]

Lovely horse and nice facility! It's too bad you couldn't have put a break away halter and a shorter foal type lead on him so you could still catch him, but he wouldn't risk breaking his neck. I get that having him step on the lead will teach him to give to pressure, but I don't think I'd leave him in that particular halter. Ah well, past is past and obviously he made it out ok. Good luck with your new guy. Do you plan on gelding him? He'd make a nice riding horse without that testosterone.

[barehorsetraining]

@Shalome207 The lead was not left on to teach him to give to pressure, I teach that myself. It was left on b/c the BLM makes you leave it on. No I have had him two years and have not gelded him. He is a fantastic riding horse with the testosterone as well because from day three he was not allowed to call to mares, drop or any other stud behavior unless he was actually breeding. He is triple registered now through thee spanish mustang registries which are chosen buy type,conformation and temperme

[barehorsetraining]

@JptrGrl I agree but unfortunately the BLM will keep rounding them up, so without good homes like mine they would end up going to slaughter. So people need to adopt them. And the difference between them and wolves, is that they are a prey animal not a predator so you don't have to worry about aggression and them wanting to kill because of their instincts. Wild horses have the same instincts that domestic horses to making it safe to be around once trained.

[IMMASTAR50150]

I'm doing the mustang makeover for my very first time in may I'm so excited! Your horse is beautiful by the way!

[LuvMitch247]

Actually...I'm very thankful you rescued this Stallion...he would probably have been led to slaughter. THANK YOU for all the information, also. <3

[horsegirlsoccer]

He's beautiful! I can't believe they wanted him off the range though, he's gorgeous! I wonder what his offspring looked like too.

[littleblackwolf3]

he's absolutely gorgeous :D he looks like a friesian :)

[taetae223]

hes beautiful

[melissathekitteh]

@animalcrueltyisevil Oh so now I'm apparently a female dog? wow. how much can city folk fail....

[animalcrueltyisevil]

@melissathekitteh It's true bitch. Accept it

[slidinez]

You can tell this is a great horse! You are lucky. So glad to hear how he progressed!

[melissathekitteh]

@animalcrueltyisevil Because your lying. none of that crap ever happened. even if it did, at least they put them out of their pain. unlike someone who doesnt understand pain, and wouldnt put down a horse in pain like you. HORSES CANT RUN OFF THEIR HOOVES. you know nothing. their hooves are harder than YOUR skull apparently.

[animalcrueltyisevil]

@melissathekitteh

Oh yeah. You are completely clueless. If they "care" about the horses why did they let two foals have their hooves run off and then made them stand alone in a hard trailer for four hours and then put them in a pen without their mothers before, FINALLY, putting them out of their misery!