Wild horse adoption
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McLaughlin adopted last October
had a filly by her side, and was in
foal again, a kind of three-for-one
price deal.
In just five weeks from the time
she took her mare home, Mrs.
McLaughlin was riding the animal,
and believes she could have done so
even sooner. The filly, now about
eight months old, will begin her
training later this summer, at
yearling age.
So impressed with his wife’s
horse was Mr. McLaughlin that he
sold his own domestic mount in
order to instead adopt either a wild
mare or a stallion that he will have
gelded.
While Frank Goodlander is up at
the corral visiting with potential
adopters, his wife Doris, manages
the adoption center office, in
terviewing adoption candidates
and handling the paperwork in
volved in the process.
Potential adopters must fill out
an application and submit it along
with a $25 non-refundable deposit,
which will later be applied to the
$215 cost of a horse, or $l4O for a
burro, if they choose to adopt.
While there is an abundance of
horses, burros are in short supply.
A waiting list of burro adopters
now includes 95 names of people
interested in acquiring a
descendant of these gold-rush-era
pack animals.
The BLM, which oversees the
horse adoption program, operates
several adoption centers, but with
only two of them located in the
East. In addition to the Lewisberry
facility, a similar one is operating
in Cross Plains, Tennessee.
Because wild horses and burros
on public rangelands in eight
states are protected by law, herd
Horses off the first shipment from the West to adoption
center are shy and skittish at first buy hay in the feedrack
helps them get over their initial fears.
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sizes have continued to increase,
and many face possible starvation
in the areas where they compete
with wildlife and domestic
livestock for limited forages.
The estimated 60,000 wild horses
and burros populating the
rangelands are far in excess of the
optimal 24,000 that the Bureau has
estimated can be supported on the
land and feed available.
“There are over 25,000 excess
wild horses and 40 wild burros
presently in corrals out West
waiting to be shipped to adoption
centers,” says G. Curtis Jones, Jr.,
Director of the BLM’s Eastern
States Office. “Nevada corrals
alone had over 1,400 animals which
were gathered last summer and
fall, to help avoid overgrazing and
possible starvation.”
As horses are rounded up from
the rangelands, temporary corrals
set up handle the herds, often in
canyons where they can be more
easily directed and contained.
Both heliocopters and wranglers
on horseback move the wild horses
into the corrals, where they are
freeze-branded, wormed and given
a full battery of protective vac
cinations.
When they arrive at adoption
centers, the animals are again
checked by veterinarians. At
Lewisberry, each horse received
an injection of tetramycin as a
preventive against health
problems that could be brought on
by the stress of moving.
In spite of the availability of
horses, adoption rates have fallen
considerably over the winter.
A continuing problem in the East
is boosting public awareness of the
horse adoption program. To help
increase public involvement and
knwoledge of the program, and
encourage larger numbers of
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earmarked for use in several of the
county’s 4-H programs.
During the annual business
meeting, a slate of officers was
elected to head the executive board
for the fiscal year.
Charles Hess, Dallastown Rl, is
the new president, Jed Beshore,
New Cumberland, is first vice
president, and second vice
president is Sara Eisenhart.
Naomi Bupp continues as
secretary and Robert Smyser will
serve as treasurer.
During the year from October 1,
1982 through September 30, 1983,
the York Extension office made
over 25,500 contacts assisting in
dividuals with calls and farm and
home' visits. Attendance at the
more than 2,000 meetings called by
4-H leaders was over 30,500, and
there was attendance of over 39,000
at meetings held by extension
staffers.
Media participation included
over 190 each of news articles and
radio broadcasts, as well as 16
television broadcasts. Over 180,000
pieces of educational mail carried
extension information to the
public.
adoptions, center managers like
the Goodlanders have begun
holding “satellite” adoption
programs in distant areas.
On March 17, the Goodlanders
held their first satellite center
activity at Belleville. Of the 20
horses available at the one-day
event, 13 found new owners on the
spot. Four other interested in
dividuals came to the Lewisberry
center even before the satellite
day, after reading of the program
through pre-publicity, and ad
ditional inquiries are still coming
in to the Center’s office as a result.
A similar large-scale outreach
adoption satellite is now in plan
ning for Syracuse, New York, to be
held later in the Spring. The
Goodlanders expect to haul bet
ween 100 and 120 horses to the New
York satellite program.
Up at the corral, Chris Corkle,
oblivious to the activity around
her, is still leaning against the
hayrack. But now, just behind her
on the far side of the feeding trough
quietly stands the blaze-faced
horse that has already captured a
place in her heart.
Somehow, it almost seems as
though these two youngsters from
different sides of the country
already know that they belong
together.
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