Anyone wanting to adopt wild horses or burros will have the chance today through Sunday at the Cullman County Agricultural Center, WVTM 13 in Birmingham reported.
The Bureau of Land Management will host a wild horse and burro placement event from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20 and Saturday Sept. 21 and from 8 a.m. to noon Sunday, Sept. 22 at 17655 U.S. Highway 31. The BLM is “offering a limited number of excess animals gathered from western rangelands” in a program “designed to help improve rangeland health in overpopulated herd management areas.”
Stock photo. Not the actual animals available for adoption.Courtesy of Ludovic from Pixabay
The event is open to the public. Anyone wishing to adopt must be 18 years or older, have an approved trailer and be able to verify the animal’s future care. There is an adoption fee.
“BLM has placed more than 300,000 wild horses and burros into private care since 1971,” said Southeastern States District Manager Robert Swithers in a press release. “This is an opportunity to provide a good home to one of America’s Living Legends.”
BLM offers an Adoption Incentive Program in which “qualified adopters are eligible to receive a $1,000 incentive payment upon title issuance for an untrained wild horse or burro.”
