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Mustang: A Great Horse Breed

The North American Mustang is a light horse breed. Light horse breeds generally weigh less than 1,500 pounds. They are sometimes used as riding horses for leisure and trail riding. Being agile and swift, many are also used on the racetrack, in the show ring, and for work on the ranch.

The mustang is descending from horse breeds first brought to North America by the Spanish in the sixteenth century. The horses ultimately broke free to run wild and breed on the open prairies. The mustang wandered free in great numbers than any other wild horses on earth, banding together in herds to protect themselves from wolves, coyotes and other predators.

Mustangs come in every variety of size, shapes, and colours, with the average height being around 14.2 hands. The most typical colours are bay and sorrel, but they come in buckskin, appaloosa, zebra striped dun, grulla ( slate grey ), roan, palomino, and paint.

Horse CARE AND FEEDING

The Mustang’s ancestors ran wild in the Americas, and they turned into a hardy breed with straightforward nutritive needs. Mustangs had to survive on small amounts of grass and brush so they generally tend to be easy keepers and maintain weight on fairly low amounts of feed.

The Mustang is a fairly low maintenance breed that does well in most settings. The breed does just as well in pasture or in a barn or box stall.

PATTERN

Mustangs form little herds that provide companionship and defense against predators. A herd is composed of one horse and his harem of two to eight mares, their foals, and diverse young mustangs. A herd will meander and graze in a specific territory. It’ll tolerate the presence of other herds on the edges of its range, and will infrequently join them in warding off attacks from predators. When the herd is challenged by an assailant, an older female, called a lead mare, will lead the herd away from danger while the stallion remains to test the aggressor. It’ll snort wildly while pawing the ground with his front hoofs to raise a cloud of dust.

BREEDING

The mating season is from April to July. The foals are born the following spring. When it’s time to give birth, the mares leave the herd and bear their foals alone in well-hidden locations. Although adult mustangs have a wide variety of coat colors, newborn foals have coats that mix in with the dusty ground of their habitat.

The foals can stand within several hours of birth. After 2-3 days, ma and foal join the herd and remain with it for a year or more. When the male colts reach about 3 years of age, they’re driven from the herd by the horse. The colts are too junior to attract female, so they make a herd of their own with which they roam for several years. They occasionally challenge the leader of other herds, until they are successful in building a herd of their own.

FOOD AND FEEDING

Like all horses, the mustang is a herbivore, eating nothing except foliage. However because of the deficiency and low calorific value of the coarse grass, sagebrush, and juniper which it eats, it has changed to survive on a diet that would not sustain tamed horses. Centuries of living in such tough conditions have enabled the mustang to go without water for a few days if necessary. The mustang has additionally learned the correct way to break open frozen springs and to clear sediment-clogged water holes by splashing and digging to displace the waste. It’ll even gnaw prickly pear cactus to get moisture from the plant’s juices.

MUSTANG AND MAN

By the late 18th C, mustangs were well established in nine western states and numbered between two and 5,000,000. Then, as settlers moved west and began to cultivate the land, the mustangs were driven off and snuffed out by the thousands. The best eradication of the mustangs has happened in this century ; huge numbers were arrested and used in both the Boer War and World War I. Others were caught and used as cow ponies, and many more were shot to be used as pet food and fertilizer. By the mid-19608242;s, their numbers were conjectured at between eighteen thousand and 34,000, and by the early 1970s, there were less than 10,000.

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