Hola blog,

Due to the current events I’m going to take a step away from the theme of this blog because what is coming next is both sad and kinda Gruesome so I rather talk about something a little happier and uplifting so I’m going to show y’all how I’m spending all my extra time. SO Y’ALL GONNA MEET MY HORSES cause I haven’t been able to see anyone else so here ya go

This is Brandy her registered name is Cognac n Dimonds she is 4 years old and she is reining horse.

This GB (Goody Boy) his registered name is Dunnit In The Dark he is a 13 year old reiner but due to lameness issues he is now retired.

This is Kawya she is 18 years old and I run barrels on her but I do not own her.

This is Chico his registered name Sugar Chic Olena he is 20 years old and he is the first horse that was just mine.

So I hope you guys enjoyed meeting my horses today. Feel welcome to ask queastions about them in the comments.

Hey,  y’all I’m back to tell ya about the holding pens.

Holding pens are basically exactly what they sound like, a pen where the horses are held before they go to their destination. But these holding pens for mustangs can be overcrowded and not a safe environment for some of the horses because of the over crowing the horses will not let all of the horses be able to eat or drink.  But I’m also gonna share some important info I have found from the Colorado Sun on this very topic

U.S. Forest Service has built a wild horse pen that could allow it to sell the animals for slaughter

According to the Colorado Sun,

U.S. Forest Service has built a wild horse pen that could allow it to sell the animals for slaughter

The U.S. Forest Service, however, denies claims by horse advocates it has made up its mind to sell the more than 250 horses for slaughter

The agency acknowledged in court filings in a potentially precedent-setting legal battle that it built the new pen in Northern California for mustangs gathered in the fall on national forest land along the Nevada border because of restrictions on such sales at other federal holding facilities.

The Forest Service has previously held any horses it gathered at pens belonging to the BLM, which manages 385,000 square miles (997,000 square kilometers) of public lands in the West.

Hey, y’all I’m back,  with some more news on our loved Mustangs. Today I’m gonna go more in-depth on the trips that these mustangs and what they go through on their way there.

It starts with the herds getting rounded up and brought to a number of different places because this all depends on if they were legally or illegally rounded up. If they are legally rounded up they are brought to holding pens before getting auctioned off or sold to there foster owners who are supposed to break them but most of the time after mustangs are gentled they get put onto auction to get sold. But that’s sometimes where their journey begins and where the trouble starts.

Most of the time they have multiple people at the sales buying these horses to look a little less sketchy. At most sales they have rules or limits of how many horses you can purchase at a time.

Once purchased they are loaded into cattle semi’s and that’s the first problem most cattle semis are to bounces and unstable for horses making it really easy for them to fall and break a leg etc.

Most of the time they are picked up in a normal gooseneck trailer and then brought to the holding pens before getting brought over the border. They like to like to wait till they have the max amount of horses they can haul. In a semi-trailer, they can take 50,000 pounds and make the math easy we are gonna say each horse weighs about 1,000 pounds that means they put about 50 head of horses in a trailer at a time. But at times they will put them in trailers with cattle to get them over the border easier.There are points where these horses will go without food or water for days at a time. making them even weaker.

That’s it for today folks, stay posted for my next post on while in the holding pens.