Mustangs (The Horse) ?

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The mustang is a free-roaming horse of the Western United States, descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish. Mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, but because they are descended from once-domesticated horses, they are actually feral animals.
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I adopted one for my children and he was wild, he was a leader and a smart horse, you couldn't touch him at first and the kids named him Thunder. Had cows at that time and he was kept in the dairy barn with the cows in a pen with walls that went from the floor to the ceiling because if he got out all of Pennsylvania wold have been his home. He seen us milk and work with the cows and in no time he came around. Started to ride him in the comfort stall barn on the concrete floor up and down the drive way and feed alleys with just baler twine tied to the halter for reins so all we needed was a bosal. He respected the electric fence as much as I did after peeing on it when I was about five years old! The first time I rode him outside in the pasture there was about ten inches of snow on the ground so he couldn't get good traction. Eventually, my one daughter became his special buddy, taking him swimming in the pond, teaching him to drink out of a cup, he would come when we would whistle and giving him treats.  A wonderful sight to see a pretty blonde with long hair  riding through the meadow bareback. He was a four year old gelding when we got him and died when twenty nine, very sad day. There is a lot more pleasure to this story this will be all for now.

     Years ago I remember Dad telling about a TV program about taming wild horses. Said they put the horse in a big box then filled the box with either wheat or corn. That's how they broke the horses.

The HBO movie was based on true facts. Sadly, some could not be "broke" and subsequently euthanized .

Edited by FREEDGUY - 08 Dec 2020 at 6:15pm

Years ago, I was the bookkeeper for the largest mink ranch in the country, and one of the things that went into mink feed was horsemeat from out west. At that time, 1960s, it was legal to round up wild horses and butcher them for mink food. We used to get countless semi-loads of frozen horsemeat, among many other things, whalemeat, denatured turkeys covered in purple dye, fish racks, slunks [unborn calves] nutria. At the peak they were feeding 56,000 pounds of groundup feed a day. It was quite an operation. I left there in 1970 for greener pastures.

Vast differences in wild horses. Common practice from late 1800's to the 1960's was for ranchers to turn a stallion of known history out into the wild horses. So I don't know how much DNA from current wild horses would be similar to the Spanish horses.