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is not based on blood lines, color, or conformation. The Registry
was established to give recognition to America's wild horses and
burros who have been removed from federal lands. Currently, we register
all freeze- marked wild horses and burros from the Bureau of Land
Management's Wild Horse and Burro Adoption program and wild horses
from White Sands Missile Range Wild Horse Adoptions. Foals who are
not freeze-marked will be accepted if conception occurred in the
wild before capture as determined by mare capture date and foal
birth. Any offspring of a mare or jenny and stallion or jack already
registered in our registry will be registered. |
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Registration: $25.00 per animal |
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$15.00 for each additional animal (at time of initial
registration only) |
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$10.00 transfer fee |
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As of 1996, genetic testing became a requirement.
(Additional $40.00 fee) |
| Distinguishable Characteristics |
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Wild horses are representative of the greatest genetic
diversity of any particular breed of horses. They also have the
greatest diversity in color and markings. Their conformation and
size varies to the geographical areas in which they are found. Mainly,
they are structurally more sound than domestic horses and are noted
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Wild burros are mainly primarily of the African Ass
populations. They represent bloodlines of many extinct wild populations
from Africa. They are usually small in stature but again, size and
conformation varies with the geographical locations of the burros.
They are found in desert climates with the majority in Arizona,
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Burros are characterized by their long, deep-set
eyes, coarse wiry manes, small feet, absence of forelocks and tails
that have long hair at the tip. The most common color of the wild
is grey. They are extremely intelligent animals and adapt well to
captivity.
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| History |
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Although wild horses and wild burros evolved on the North American
continent for the past 55 million years, it is thought that they
disappeared for 10,000 years after the Ice Age. In a recent find
in the Yukon in 1993 of a "freeze dried" Ice Age horse,
it is affirmed that evolution of the modern day horse completed
itself on this continent. Skeletal morphologies of the Pleistocene
fossils of burros found in the United States are anatomically indistinguishable
from reintroduced burros. It was in 1493 that Columbus reintroduced
the Spanish horse and burro to America. By the early 1500's, Spaniards
began to settle the West. With them they brought their finest Andalusian
stock. Horses and burros were required to be strong to endure the
journeys across the ocean. By 1700, these Spanish horses were found
all over the Southwest and by 1770, they were found all over the
Midwest and West. There were approximately 2 million wild horses
roaming the western rangelands from 1800 until 1900. By 1971, wild
horses and burros had almost been hunted to extinction. They were
used for dog and chicken food. The methods in which they were rounded
up were grossly inhumane. This caught the attention of our first
president of ISPMB, Velma Johnston, affectionately known as Wild
Horse Annie, who was instrumental in her 30 year campaign to save
wild horses and burros from eradication in the United States by
promoting the passage of a federal law known as PL 92-195, The Wild
Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act. Today, the Bureau of Land Management
is mandated by law to protect America's Wild Horses and Burros.
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