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| Cimarron Sky-Dog Reserve has recently started to adopt some Forestry Service mustangs and is working towards creating a large land reserve where some of the hundreds of wild horses rounded up here in New Mexico can run free again. Due to diminishing wild horse territory and no birth control (as yet), it is necessary for the Forestry Service to conduct regular round-ups in order to ensure enough fodder for the horses left behind, especially in drought years or harsh winters. In May 2007 we adopted a young mare we named 'Lulu'. She was an example of how starved the wild horses can be after a bad winter when there isn't enough food to go around. She was rounded up with many others from the Jicarilla Wild Horse territory who were in a similar condition. A few weeks after she was rounded up, Lulu gave birth to a little colt we called Blue. A good majority of the mares rounded up are pregnant. By the end of the summer of 2007, Lulu was looking much better and Blue had grown dramatically. Their pictures are featured below. Most of the horses rounded up do not get adopted and are shipped to the mid-west where they will spend the rest of their days in pens, if not worse. There are currently over 30,000 of America's wild horses languishing in these pens, therefore it is a huge dilemma. We plan to work alongside other organizations to try and solve this complex problem of providing the best solution for New Mexico's wild horses and keep them free. Some of our best friends in this dream are the folks at the Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary. |
| ‘Lulu’ and her baby ‘Cinco Blue’ when they first came to us in May 2007. |
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| Lulu and Cinco Blue a few months later. |  |
| We also have 420 acres of pasture along the old Santa Fe Trail near Watrous and old Fort Union just north of Las Vegas, New Mexico. This is a beautiful property where we hope some day to buy more land in order to create our large land reserve. There are miles and miles of open prairie grassland here as well as pockets of forest where ponderosa and pinon pine trees create plenty of shade and shelter for the horses with views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. All land is welcome, and we are happy to start with just a few hundred acres but obviously the larger the acreage, the more horses it can sustain. There are several other 140-acre lots available around the property at Watrous that we would love to purchase. Our motto is ‘Wild Land for Wild Horses’ and we hope that by creating a land reserve for our horses we can keep at least one large parcel of land from being sub-divided. |
 The land near Watrous where we would like to someday expand to create our wild horse land reserve. |
To see our horses enjoying their Watrous sanctuary, please see the Watrous Photo Album page! |
Brego, Pippin and Dune were rounded up from El Rito in the fall of 2007 and came to live with us on Valentines 2008. | |
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Although we are a non-breeding facility some of the mares that come to us from the wild either have babies or are pregnant. In Kachina's case, it was both. Her colt Noche is now a yearling and on April 15th, 2009 she gave birth to another colt who we called Rebate. He is a very sweet and delightful addition to our herd and easy to fall in love with. |
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| Please help us keep New Mexico's wild horses free and safe. For more information on sponsoring one of these horses, please see our Sponsor page or call Jackie at (505)473.9598 or E-mail:skydogjackie@rocketmail.com | |
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