I like to track BLM Mustang blog and Facebook group activity as well as activity about Colonial Spanish horses. There is not any where near as distinct a division as either extreme would like to believe. Holding that middle ground means I am getting more and more requests from peopel who are confused by the […]
Category Archives: Medicine Horses
Now that scholars are actually looking at the horse bones found among indigenous people’s historic remains, there is DNA evidence that horses had been integrated into indigenous cultures decades before Onate set out for Northern New Mexico. The people who assimilated into those indigenous culture were undocumented. Why is no mystery. The just-rescinded Doctrine of […]
I’ve had a hard time writing about Asad’s hooves until now, because every time I trimmed them I saw how much damage there was to the white line where the laminae connect the inner structures of the hoof to the hoof wall. Instead of a thin smooth narrow white line, he had a lumpy erratic […]
When I took Asad out to my back field today to give him a chance to roll in some nice sand and stretch his legs, he did just that, for the very first time. Asad has been here for 14 months now, so the routine is nothing new. It is the details that have changed. […]
When I learned that long-time Colonial Spanish horse breeder Talley Johnson had persuaded one Captain Yates to acquire horses from the mountains 150 miles southwest of Mexico City over 50 years ago, I was intrigued. My father had moved our entire family to the city of Oaxaca, Oaxaca Mexico in December of 1968. As a […]
When Colonial Spanish horses were first imported to North America, horses were as ubiquitous and varied in type as cars in a modern parking lot. The recent leaps in equine genetic research has helped to increase our understanding of how those horses were perceived and bred as well as how they were built. Queen Isabella […]
The Livestock Conservancy has moved the Colonial Spanish horse to their Critical list because fewer than 200 foals were registered in 2021. The drop in number of registered foals is NOT due to a lack of interest in Colonial Spanish horses or to the general public’s lack of appreciation of their history, abilities or the […]
I chose to worm Asad with moxidectin and praziquantel in late January. His colic symptoms were minimal and I wanted to kill off any resistant and/encysted parasites before the weather warmed up. I expected he would have a few days of discomfort. Tapeworms in horses has becomie more common and tapeworms are not susceptible to […]
The State of New Mexico does have statutes in place to help preserve free-roaming horses with Colonial Spanish markers. Some of the horse rescue centers in the state are aware of and working to preserve Spanish Colonial horses removed from their historical home ranges. The Horse of the America’s registry does registry Colonial Spanish horses […]
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