Twenty horses trained by Nevada inmates will be up for auction next week in a virtual bid. The horses will need daily training and handling by an experienced rider when they arrive at their new home.
Nevada correctional inmates training wild horses
Twenty horses trained by Nevada inmates will be up for auction next week in a virtual bid.
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The Northern Nevada Correctional Center/Stewart Conservation Camp Saddle Horse and Burro Training Program is a cooperative partnership between the Bureau of Land Management and the Nevada Department of Corrections-Silver State Industries.
The NNCC is not only a holding facility with a capacity of up to 2,000 animals but it also has a training program where they utilize inmates to train wild horses to make available to the public for adoption. Because the facility is a correctional center, it is a closed facility yet does opens to the public a few times a year during the public adoption events.
Through this training program, wild horses and burros are gentled and trained before being adopted.
About 60-80 wild horses and burros are trained and adopted at the facility each year. Each wild horse or burro receives approximately 120 days of training, but they are still “green-broke.” They will need daily training and handling by an experienced rider when they arrive at their new home.
The Bureau of Land Management will host a virtual Wild Horse Auction between Tuesday Nov 3, and Nov 10th. The horses were rounded up to be trained by inmates at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center and housed at Stewart Conservation Camp in Carson City.
“A portion of the feral horses rounded up on the Nevada range are taken to the Silver State Industries Ranch, housed at Stewart Conservation Camp. Once there, inmates work with the horses to get them ready for adoption to private owners as well as placement in state and federal programs, such as U.S. Border Patrol, the U.S. Marine Corps and various police departments,” the statement read.
Interested buyers can register for the auction on BLM’s website, where bidding will begin Tuesday. The deadline to register is Sunday.
Press release by Nevada BLM