BLM Adoption yesterday ~ Pics

[Tockita]

Went to the BLM adoption yesterday and they had loads of really friendly, curious, playful youngsters! There were so many at the fence demanding attention I was reminded of Chester everywhere I turned.

I spent most of my time with the yearlings. They had a nicely boned, lightly frosted blue roan, and a light bay with lots of chrome.. he stood out in the pen because he was clearly a confident young man who carried himself really nicely! He was very tempting! They even had a cute little curly bay gelding!

In fact there was a lady looking at him and a curly mare. Many volunteers and her friends were steering her towards the yearling because.. this is only her second horse and first mustang and the mare is 6 and was just gathered in october!





She is from Silver Peak HMA near Esmerelda, NV. She is low man in her pen and everytime she went to eat the little mares would run her off. I just felt so bad for her! The BLM folks were hoping to find an experienced adopter for her.





So of course I called Angi who talked to Laurie and James... I sent some phone pics and we debated.. Kendall showed up and liked her too. So I adopted her and she is going to go to Angi's house and we are all going to work on gentling her.

We are looking for a good name for her. I had no idea they are registering and tracking the BLM curlys! My stangs have names that include a mention of their adoption. So June 22 Symphony is Symphony Solstice, and Chesters is Feb 12th, (Valentine adoption) is Valentine Gesture. So this new girl is also from a Valentine adoption so including Valentine or something to do with Valentine is OK. I had Esmerelda stuck in my head, imagining it as a sort of Gypsy like. It actually means Emerald, and then I realized she is from Esmerelda NV so that was kind of weird but neat.

I really didn't need another neither did Angi but she is big enough for James, Kendall, or I to ride when she's ready.

[fairazelle]

Oh Tock, she is just precious!! She looks like she will be such a doll. Congratulations!!! ;D

[swissgrl]

Congratulations, she is is very cute!!!!

[barbpurple]

if you all liked that one you sould see the black curly that was there also.. if i could i would of gotten that one.. ummmmm

[Tockita]

Yes we didn't even see that one until they had turned all the horses out. Some of them are already adopted but were waiting for coggins/gelding and such. Kim did mention they had a 7 year old mare and a 4 year old gelding in the back. I'm not sure if that black one was one of those or not.

I think this gal just needs a home and hopefully won't turn out to be to set in her wild ways. She did seem more afraid of those little mares then she was of me!

[bridgetah]

Congratulations! I'd call her Valentina.

BTW, my mare was captured at five and started at seven. She was much easier than the filly, far less drama.

[sundancer]

Sounds like you had just too much fun! Can't wait to see Angi's horse!

[Tockita]

I think we all may end up fighting over her when her title arrives. I was ready to leave and not adopt her.. Angi left it up to me (foolish woman) CJ ended up doing the paperwork while they turned out all the horses and started to close up. So all 3 of my mustangs end of day adoptions.

When Chris called me back this morning her first words where "What did you do??" LOL She asked if it was a bay and as soon as I said Chesnut she replied "oh it's Angi's then!"
Chris ended up with blacks, I have more bays, and Angi has more reds.

[chocolatemoose]

Congradulations Tokita!! It's really hard to go to those adoptions and just look, I went with a friend to a weanling adoption (just to look) 2 months ago up in Litchfield and ended up bringing home a little blue roan filly her name is Jada. Gotta love those Mustangs.

[Tockita]

Ohhhhh Litchfield is she from Twin peaks?? We can't get them to send anymore down to Ridgecrest and they are really WONDERFUL beasties!

I was talking to one of the volunteers who was at Litchfield awhile back. She was saying that they went out to count horses and they saw some very diversly colored bands, bands with donkey jacks following along (and mule babies), they even saw a mare with a neckband that was probably 100 miles from the facility. Seems some folks thought it was good to release all the horses at Litchfield on sunday and this one made her way back to the wild. The wranglers decided that she deserved to stay out and left her free when they gathered.
There are some nice mustangs in CA, sadly they don't like to share with Ridgecrest these days, but everyone wants our donkeys! (They had over 600 on site yesterday, and they will be more coggins and gelding this week so they can start to adopt them out)

[chocolatemoose]

She's not a Twin Peaks but from the Devils Garden herd just like my Reno. She is to cute.I finally got a halter and lead rope on her yesterday and is is doing really good. She is really graying out with a dark face and no markings other than roaning. If I could I would take them all there is so much color up there at Litchfield.

[agilitygal]

Poor little gal. She was hungry, too!!! Glad to hear that you took her. Curlies. I didn't know mustangs came in that variety. I researched that once and they are hypoallergenic and known for their intelligence, calmness, and steadiness. Updates please.

[MustangAppy]

I wish I had more room, the BLM would run out of horses!!! Tockita, we need a Mustang forum.....

[tireddog]

Oh, Tock! Congrats! She is darling! And there is something very gypsy about her ...

We have a BLM forum on this board under "Rescues by Region" at:

rescuesonly.proboards59.com/index.cgi?board=blm

Senora Esmerelda Valentina and Phileas Maximus (Oscar/CBER) would make quite a pair! He came from Rocky Hills HMA in Nevada and is a hunk. Even though he ended up at the feedlot and we adopted him through CBER, I was still able to get copies of his paperwork (after translating his freezebrand). I'm with you, Spyder - I don't think I could have enough land to home all the BLM horses and burros I would take if I could!

[Tockita]

I have a feeling Angi is going to end up with her, but theres 4 or 5 of us that debated her adoption and all want to play with her. I just happened to be the one there to sign the papers and pay the adoption. We are setting up a BLM approved pen on Sunday and hope to have her delivered on tuesday. (Something told me to buy that shader a week ago)