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Trainer Incentive Program for wild horses proves life changing
16 TIP Trainers in Texas have placed 92 wild horses into private care in the last year
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TEMPLE, TX â The Bureau of Land Management, charged with the task of caring for and protecting more than 245 million acres of public land, has spent millions each year in managing an overpopulation of Wild Horses and Burros on public lands.
The most recent nationwide wild horse and burro population estimates of March 1, 2020, place the population at 95,000 animals.
That s more than 68,000 animals above the appropriate management level (AML) of 26,770 or the population point at which the wild horse and burro population is consistent with the land s capacity to support them.
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Cumberland’s Mayer takes in mustangs, prepares them to compete
Brittany Mayer, of High View Farm in Cumberland, trains and competes with wild horses, including her new friend Renegade, pictured with her here. (Breeze photos by Ethan Shorey)
CUMBERLAND – For Brittany Mayer, training wild horses and preparing them for a better life has changed her personality and made her a better person, grounding her and “evening me out.”
“You can’t get mad at them,” she said, recalling the one time she pushed a new mustang over a bit and paid the price.
Mayer, 29, of High View Farm at 150 Tower Hill Road in Cumberland, has followed in her mother Carol’s footsteps while blazing her own new trail in training mustangs taken from the wild and then competing with them before adopting them out.