Mustangs - horses that returned to America, Columbus, taking them from Spain in 1493.In North America and previously lived primitive horse.Due to some reason (probably hunting or changes in climatic conditions), they ceased to exist on this land.
Thus, the first which was brought to Florida and Mexico Mustang - the horse is a descendant of Iberian horses, who have taken their origin from the Arabian and Andalusian horses.Spread mustangs on the American continent during the advance of the first settlers in the land of the Mississippi.Some of them ran out of the herd being distilled, some kidnapped Indians.
In more recent times, the colonization of America, immigrants from France and England also brought their horses.After 200-300 years living in the prairies and became a wild mustang - the horse is no longer having any resemblance to the Spanish brought horses, in addition to high endurance.Enterprising breeders began to catch wild horses - mustangs.They crossed them with the German breeds.Crossing mustangs happened due to the fact that in the winter time ranchers released all the horses into the wild for them to feed and survive ourselves, but with the arrival of spring, when they needed horsepower to work the land and to move, they they were caughtcapturing young and wild.
Indian life dramatically changed Mustang.The horse was used by them as a means of transportation, it harnessed to the scraper used in the battles in the hunt for the wild bulls in trade.Indians they exchanged, resold, stolen.Some Indians were herds thousands of head of horses, while tribes - tens of thousands.By the early twentieth century, North America walked herds, a total of population of two million.Hunting them was commonplace.Hunters caught selling horses for the military or for meat - horse meat, from which prepared sausages and bacon, as well as pet food.
In order to save the processed agricultural field from the onslaught of herds, they were shot or poisoned directly from aircraft.As a result, fifty years on the American continent became rare Mustang.The horse needs protection, so were created laws that protect these animals.Today, they are found only in protected areas of the United States.But the country is an ongoing debate about the status of these animals because they do not all agree that they are the heritage of America.
Many Americans have a negative attitude to the wild horses, claiming that they reduce the amount of pet food, even noticing that wild herds live in arid areas, where due to lack of water cattle and sheep graze can not.Hard natural selection, which were subjected to wild horses, to adapt them to the most severe conditions.In search of food, they are a day more than eighty kilometers.
Nowadays, if a wild herd is growing strongly, the part of the horses are caught and given in private sector citizens with an additional charge of $ 125 for each horse taken on a ranch (meaning Mustang).The horse, which like the photo, the future owner selects a year and takes care of it, and only then receives the promised reward, and every right to it.
