{"id":65,"date":"2008-05-14T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/2008\/05\/18\/free-roaming-horses\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:34","slug":"free-roaming-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Free Roaming Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: &#8220;Chris  Robbins&#8221;  &lt;<a href=\"mailto:christopher_robbins@blm.gov\" title=\"blocked::mailto:christopher_robbins@blm.gov\">christopher_robbins@blm.gov<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Subject :  Urban Legend or Real?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"> Chris, I have  been getting a lot of questions regarding people abandoning  their horses to run  with BLM horses. Is there any truth to this or is it  just a rumor? If there is  any basis to it these horses may not survive. The  band stallion may take in  some mares but surely would not allow a gelding  in. They also would not be able  to find food\/water in the summer months  since they would have no experienced  herd leader to follow. Not to mention domestic horse don&#8217;t have hooves as tough  as Mustangs and would stone  bruise easily. You know all this already, don&#8217;t  know why I had to go on  about it. Just thinking how stupid that would be to do  that. Any truth to  it? I&#8217;m hoping not. It&#8217;s too expensive to gather the ones as  is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Joanna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: &#8220;Chris Robbins&#8221; &lt;christopher_robbins@blm.gov&gt; Subject : Urban Legend or Real? Chris, I have been getting a lot of questions regarding people abandoning their horses to run with BLM horses. Is there any truth to this or is it just a rumor? If there is any basis to it these horses may not survive. The band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tipstrickstidbits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10865,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/10865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}