Bachelor Stallions

I found out this week The BLM nor The HSUS will give me any money for my photos or data. I have to form an organized group. I would like to do this as a full time job this summer  (getting a group started and leading a public documentation). I found out the HSUS is not studying the social structure of this herd, just "counting foals" and monitoring the original 60 mares that were given PZP in 2008. I feel there is a need for this. One of the reasons is to provide the BLM with accurate numbers.

I also found out bait trapping is being considered. I can only see this as a step in the right direction.

Anyway , once again, if you would like to sponsor me send check or money order to The SWBWH Club PO Box 1728 Hayden Co 81639.
Thanks, Nancy Roberts

My resume is this blog and my albums on facebook...this has taken me hundreds of hours and thousands of miles...I hope it will somehow help these wild horses. Thank You to everyone who has gotten me this far! Let's Think Positive and Move Forward to a better, more humane way of mangement!

Lightning...I saw him on this day with Hawk and Kokomo. He has been a real loner since losing his mares in 2010. It was nice to see him with other stallions. He looks really good and seemed dominant among the other two horses

The three year old, Hawk. Hawk is the son of Darcy from Chief's band.

The one and only Kokomo. He had a horrible injury last year...someone bit his ear off! He, too, was a loner, but seems healed up and healthy. Many people think Koko is a Picasso baby.

Lightning giving Hawk some wild horse wisdom.

Lightning is an elder. The HSUS (The Humane Society of the United States) knows what they were aged at by the contractors at the 2008 gather, we are hoping to get that information. Someone asked about Lightning's age and they said he was quite old...I think they sad 20? I believe if we form an organized group they will pass that information to us. I hope soon.

Look at his tri colored legs! This is a very handsome pinto. When I first met him in 2009 he was a satellite stallion for Sterling, who had Crow and her then weanling, Star. He was quite lame much of 2010 and then the ear thing last season... I hope he has a better year in 2012!

This is another encounter.... same day. Boy was I happy to see this guy!! The Cowboy! Just where he should be on 7 mile ridge. He looks as beautiful as ever. I had not seen him since late last summer. That's how it goes out here. It s hard to describe how vast this country is and how many ways there for a wild horse to hide. It is just amazing. Even a brilliant pinto like this Stud. Cowboy has only had one mare since the 2008 gather and that was short lived (Rudi).

He is often seen alone or with his best pal, Snowman. Today they were together!  This made me really smile!

I think of Snowman as The Guru" of SWB. He winters with Cowboy and then is seen all over the range with other bachelors in the summers. He seems to take the younger colts and show them around. I call these "babysitting stallions". 

West Side Bachelor Stallions

Bachelor stallions!

Some of the beautiful pintos that call Sand Wash Basin home.

Nick and Flash were really buddied up on this day. Here they pose with the big bay, Thunder.

Hoot! the HSUS told me he is Eagle's 2009 colt, but then where does Sparrow fit in? Personally I think Sparrow was orphaned.

It's really good to see Kokomo hanging out with other stallions. He was alone a lot last summer and was on again, off again lame. He seemed to be in charge here and best friends with Hoot.

This is Flash. He just got kicked out of Rounder's band this spring when his new sister, Luziano was born. He is the son of Lightning and Pablina. I first met him in the fall of 2009. He was just a scruffy little guy, my has he bloomed! Good to see him with the Boyz.

Ranger

Tango, this is Picasso's and Mingo's 2009 colt. He left his band last summer.

Thunder

This was a seperate encounter...This is Hurricane. You can tell him from the other duns because he has no white, Last summer he was with Haze. At first I thought the sorrel with him was his old buddy, but it is Ziggy, the 2 yr old colt out of Bug's band that just left. It was just the two of them on this day. I can't confirm, but I think he is a three year old that did not get rounded up in 2008.

Ziggy, he looks a lot like my adopted boy with the big wrap around blaze. This guy is a character. I  had fun watching him play with his palo brother, Skip, last summer. they were rowdy yearlings. Then their mom's each had a palomino colt, Butch and Sundance. Just the greatest group of wild horses!

Leaving the water hole...going somewhere. What a fun encounter this was! Love these colorful stallions!

Mr Independent, Ranger. He was the only one that split off from the group. I think of him as the Hildago of The Basin. He is a real ham this one.

It was so good to see Kokomo, I had not seen up up close this year. he was one of the original horses I followed through the winter of 2010. He was a saellite stallion for Sterling back then who had Crow and her then yearling colt, Star. I am pretty sure he is out of Picasso.

Splashing, drinking and playing at the water hole.

Our palomino, Nick. I recently obtained some information that Nick might be a three year old.....three year olds are rare out here. Every single weanling that was rounded up by helicoper in oct of 2008 was removed. Did Nick evade capture?