Kiger Mesteño Association

16/12/2023

Tentative BLM Gather Dates

September 1 , 2024
September 10, 2024

27/03/2023

So this too is Bolero. See last two posts for the details, but this! This is one talented horse with a penchant for jazz. Who would have thought? Thank you, Rochelle Marie Reno.

25/03/2023

This is one of Bolero’s babies! (See photo below). This girl is gorgeous. Bolero is a breeding stallion and is owned by Rochelle Marie Reno. Please contact her if you have any questions.

25/03/2023

The Beautiful Bolero. Owned by Rochelle Marie Reno

The gorgeous Kiger Stallion, Bolero. Owned by Rochelle Marie Reno. She picked him out as a young c**t, his breeder did not want to sell, but Rochelle knew this boy needed to go home with her and in the end she prevailed. Bolero is now a much loved part of the family and he is even a budding musician. Maybe we can get Rochelle to post a bit of his work....

24/03/2023

JR Robles a Kiger enthusiast and trainer won the first round of the World Championship today. He was competing against some in unbelievable international talent. (Look up Guy McLean.)

JR was extraordinary. You can watch Road to the Horse live tomorrow and Sunday. See their website for details.

13/07/2022

13/12/2021

Santana, Kiger stallion wishing you a very Merry Christmas! Riverside Collies and Mustangs Shirley Rensink

13/12/2021

Kigers=Gorgeous

18/06/2021

Kiger, Billy is lucky to have Sophie Joan as his partner. Sophie just graduated with honors with a BA in psychology. Her plan is to move on to graduate school to develop skills in equine therapy. The two have a terrific future together.

23/05/2021

Maestra (Maya) of Wild Horse Mountain: A Mustang Rescue and Therapeutic Riding Center photo credit to Nicole Jolibois

26/03/2021

Revamping the KMA website to focus on the story of the Kiger.

http://kigermustangs.org

24/03/2021

KMA is so happy to celebrate the Kiger Mustang.

20/03/2021

Spring is baby season! Seen here is a wild-born dun mare with her little buff baby, who will shed out to be a grulla

Photo by Sarah Waters

19/03/2021

Mesteño—wild Kiger Stallion. The guy that sort of started it all. He was the lead stallion of a band of the original Kiger mares. He lived out much of his life and well into old age on the Kiger Herd Management Area
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26/02/2021

Love this video

Searching For Wild Horses At: Kiger Mustang Herd Management Area In todays video we explore the Northern part of the Steens Mountain. Kiger Gorge is known fo...

07/12/2020

These beauties are the only Kiger Mustangs in the entire Southern Hemisphere. Be sure to check out their page. We are always tickled when Karen Weibel gets her camera out. Karen, you ought to be proud!

04/12/2020

One of the most famous Kigers ever. Kiger Cougar KMA 0044-W. One of the first 50 Kigers ever registered. This boy was gifted to Bobby Ingersoll. Bobby was known to have talent and he saw the natural talent in this boy as the Kiger played around in a paddock with other wild stallions. They became fast friends and together they took on the World Championship Snaffle Bit Futurity https://protecttheharvest.com/initiatives/wild-spayed-filly-futurity/interview-with-bobby-ingersoll/

We had the opportunity to interview Bobby Ingersoll about his experience training and showing a horse from the Kiger Herd Management Area on Steen's Mountain. This horse is named, Kiger Cougar.

22/11/2020

Look who is being featured by Equifest. Emily and her mom, Karen Weibel came all the way from New Zealand to the 2015 Kiger adoption. I had the good fortune of standing next to Emily when she saw her first Kigers and she was so genuinely enthralled, “I used to draw stripes on my Breyer Horses.” The Weibel’s picked out two horses from that adoption. A year later Emily returned to put on first rides and now, the gorgeous Aragon and the lovely, Arwen are the only two Kigers from the American wild who live in the Southern Hemisphere. Congratulations Emily on the recognition of your remarkable skills.

✨SPOTLIGHT✨ on Emily Weibel Horsemanship.

Emily grew up on a North Canterbury high country farm where she had quarter horses and North American bison. She has always had a real passion for horsemanship from very early on and now has a Warmblood/ Hanoverian Stud Called Amberley House and runs 400 black Angus beef cattle.

Emily is a Cowboy Challenge champ and has also competed successfully internationally. At Equifest Emily will help you understand how to develop a stronger partnership between you and your horse through aspects of Cowboy Challenge.

Find out about her session's at https://www.equifest.co.nz/emily-weibel/

19/10/2020

This gorgeous boy is owned by Shirley Rensink of Riverside Collies and Mustangs. Shirley adopted Santana as a from the wild in 2011. She had very specific training goals for this guy and wanted to use 100% positive reinforcement with him. Her results have been beautiful. Please follow this stallion and his progress. He is are real showstopper. (more photos coming)

14/08/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZTfcOjaUK4&feature=youtu.be A beautiful episode of Discover the Horse

Learn about a special type of Mustang in this video by DiscoverTheHorse. The Kiger Mustang is truly an Oregon treasure. Sequestered in far corners of Oregon’...

24/07/2020

A couple of happy folks headed out to see the wild Kigers with Tim and Susan O'Crowley from Steens Mountain Guest Ranch. We are looking forward to some great photos.

15/05/2020

Beautiful Kiger mare Wild Horse Mountain: A Mustang Rescue and Therapeutic Riding Center Sherwood, OR

13/04/2020

Can't get out to see the wild ones? Check out this wonderful video created by Matt Cook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2H1Fz8haxQ&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3gpD70kJN2Sr5_dMQE_mw4m6nl5-9xWe8ODfUx1AwMNdhmpBX3G8KV30g

Searching For Wild Horses At: Kiger Mustang Herd Management Area In todays video we explore the Northern part of the Steens Mountain. Kiger Gorge is known fo...

15/03/2020

Gorgeous photo by Katja Jensen Photography. This is a photo of Aragon from the 2015 BLM adoption. This beauty now lives in New Zealand with Karen Weibel

Kiger Mustang hingst Aragon. Den eneste af hans slags på den sydlige halvkugle!

Kiger Mustangs NZ
© Katja Jensen Photography
Alle rettigheder forbeholdt

14/02/2020

THE BLM IS ASKING FOR PUBLIC INPUT ON AN UPCOMING KIGER GATHER.

JAN 2 8 2020

Dear Interested Party:

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bums District Office is beginning the process of writing an environmental assessment (DOI-BLM-ORWA-B050-2020-0004-EA) titled Kiger and Riddle Mountain Herd Management Areas (HMA) Population Management Plan. The EA would analyze the environmental effects of various alternatives for maintaining the appropriate management level (AML) for wild horses within these HMAs over a ten-year timeframe. The AMLs for both the Kiger and Riddle Mountain HMAs were set in the Three Rivers Resource Management Plant (RMP) Record of Decision (ROD) and Rangeland Program Summary (1992), and reaffirmed in the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area (CMPA) RMP/ROD (2005) as a range of 51 to 82 and 33 to 56 wild horses, respectively.

The purpose of this letter is to provide interested parties an opportunity to participate in the development of this plan.
The project goals are to return and maintain the wild horse populations within the established AML in the Kiger and Riddle Mountain HMAs, prevent and protect rangeland resources from deterioration associated with the current overpopulation, and restore a thriving natural ecological balance and multiple use relationship on public lands in the area consistent with the provisions of Section 1333(b)(2) of the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and B***o Act (WHB Act) of 1971, as amended. Through internal scoping, BLM has developed a proposed action that includes: helicopter gathering up to 100 percent of the wild horses in the HMAs; selecting mares and stallions to be released back to the HMA based on characteristics designated in the Three Rivers RMP (1992), the Riddle Mountain and Kiger Wild Horse HMA Plan (1996), and the Kiger Mustang Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) Management Plan (1996); treating mares being returned to the HMA with authorized and available fertility control vaccine to slow the population growth rate; re-establishing the population with a 50/50 s*x ratio of horses; using bait trapping in areas where concentrations of wild horses are detrimental to habitat conditions or other resources; and conducting subsequent gathers over the next 10 years to efficiently maintain AML. The 1996 HMA and ACEC management plans are available at the Bums District BLM Office.

In this EA, BLM will analyze the anticipated effects of conducting various population management actions to maintain appropriate management levels (AML) over the IO-year timeframe of analysis and compare those action alternatives to taking no population management actions (no action alternative).
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Using results from a 2017 simultaneous double-observer method aerial survey and an estimated 20 percent annual population growth rate, the BLM anticipates by the fall of 2020 the Kiger HMA would have approximately 109 adults and 22 foals, while Riddle Mountain HMA would have approximately 95 adults and 19 foals. There is a need to protect rangeland resources from deterioration associated with populations that exceed AML, as well as a need to maintain wild horse populations in balance with the four essential habitat components (forage, water, cover, and space) over the long term. This assessment is based on the following factors including, but not limited to:

• Results of a June 15, 2017 simultaneous double-observer method aerial survey estimated a population size of 78 horses (63 adults and 15 foals) in Kiger HMA and 73 horses (55 adults and 18 foals) in Riddle Mountain HMA.

• The land use plans that allocate use for wild horses in these HMAs provide for 984 animal unit months (AUM) for wild horses in Kiger HMA and 672 AUMs for wild horses in Riddle Mountain HMA. By fall 2020, use by wild horses would be exceeding the forage allocated to their use by 324 AUMs and 468 AUMs, respectively.

• Upland forage utilization monitoring documents moderate to severe utilization levels
inportions of the Kiger HMA experiencing concentrated wild horse use.

Please provide information that you have on the status or condition of the resources or resource values of the proposed project area or alternatives to consider. Comments received from interested parties following receipt of this letter will be used to identify potential environmental issues related to wild horse population management activities and to identify alternatives to the proposed action that also achieve the purpose and need of the project.

Please submit all replies by February 28, 2020, to Wild Horse and B***o Specialist Lisa Grant, Burns District Office, 28910 Highway 20 West, Hines, Oregon 97738 or send an email to [email protected]. For questions or further information please email or call 541-573-4555"

01/02/2020

Canadian Kiger! Please read a bit about these two.

31/01/2020

Kiger eyes! Soft and intelligent.

Eye of the Kiger....Regalo de Gran Corazón. Kiger stallion. We are lucky to have so many visiting artists here at the ranch. This photo taken by Dani LeVine during an photography experience here at the ranch, guided by Sarah Waters

https://wildhorsemountain.org/

04/01/2020

In 2016 KMA had the pleasure of hosting and touring with Spanish documentarians of Azul Media . We are thrilled with Antonio Márquez 's success and his coverage of some important parts of Kiger history--interviews with Bill Phillips, Ron Sharp and KMA board members are included as background for the story of the Kiger. HIs film "Mesteño" won top honors at the International Equine Film Festival--Equus. This film compares the customs and horses of Andulsia to the Kiger Mustangs and the traditional cowboy culture here in the States. It examines how humans work with and preserve (or don't) horse populations. The footage is absolutely beautiful, both the footage from the Kiger Herd Management Area as well as the footage from Southern Spain and its rich marshlands where an unusual type of old world horse has lived for centuries. The story intriguing and gives the viewer a lot to think about. We had the pleasure of helping with the script. A big story that spans two continents. Congratulations Antonio!

30/11/2019

Kigers on the world stage.
A film featuring Kiger Mustangs is showing at the EQUUS International Film festival being held at the National Horse Park in Kentucky. Please see 2019 EQUUS Film Festival Mane Event!for ticket information.

This film was created by Azul Media and includes footage and comparisons of the work and horse of the ranchers of Andalusia and the work and Kiger Mustangs in the wild and at the ranch of Tim and Susan O'Crowley. Steens Mountain Guest RanchYou will be thrilled to see the similarities and the celebration of the horses and horsemen in this film.

30/11/2019

Bobby Ingersoll - Lifetime Achievement Award

Bobby Ingersol rode one of the most famous Kigers ever. In this video he talks about his exceptional horsemanship and this exceptional horse.

This is "Bobby Ingersoll - Lifetime Achievement Award" by Lee Schneider on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.