Learning is good, doing is better.: Introducing...

The new mustangs have been here for 4 days now...and finally it's time for introductions!

The Geldings

Elmo - Age 4
Super sweet. We think he'll go through the program pretty quick. His coloring makes him look a little mule-ish.

Morgan Freeman - Age 7
Our old man... It's taken Morgan a little longer than the other horses to get comfortable enough to eat from our hands, but we think he will do okay. He needs to tame down really well in order to get adopted since he isn't very young.

Barney - Age 4

Almost as confident as Elmo, but not quite. Barney takes a little bit more precautions, but he's still doing great. He's going to be a great horse.

The Mares

Ginger - Age 8

She's our most confident older horse. Quite muscular and pretty big. If she keeps doing as well as she's doing, she is going to find a good home.

Greta - Age 10

Probably our most pushy horse in the new group. When the mares were all penned together, she was always picking on the other horses and getting mad at them for coming up to the food. Now that they're separated, she doesn't have to worry so much and is doing really well.

Bambi - Age 3

Did they give us a tame horse by accident? Bambi is not from the same area as the other mustangs. She is actually a pony from the El Rito herd, which is notoriously hard to tame -- as Mustang Camp experienced first hand this winter -- but Bambi is an anomaly. She basically tamed herself a couple months ago by showing up at a ranch and sticking around... She is already less flighty than many of the horses that are still here from the winter El Rito group and comes up for scratches. She just needs some work to make sure she doesn't become pushy/aggressive, but she should fly through the program in no time at all. Plus her coloring is beautiful -- this picture was taken right after she rolled in mud :)

June and Timmy - Age 14 and 4 mos

June is having the hardest time transitioning to captive life. For the first 3 days, she only took a couple bites from our hands, and just picked up everyone else's dropped hay off the ground. She's doing much better now that the girls are separated. Little Timmy is just the cutest thing ever. I'll have to get a better picture of him. He's been eating out of our hands since day 1, and he can now do "easy" on command and also target his nose :) Can't wait to keep working with him and watching him grow -- both physically and in the program!