DUELMEN: A reserve about 40 kilometres north of Germany's commercial heartland is home to a herd of untamed horses, which are left to their very own devices all year, except when wranglers come in past due May to catch the younger stallions.
The Merfelder Bruch reserve at Duelmen in western Germany, north of the densely populated Ruhr commercial region, is the remaining of what have been once many areas where wild horses may just roam. Documents mention wild horses there way back to 1316, and the dukes of Croy put aside the reserve for them within the mid-19th century. According to local authorities, it is the just one at the European continent.
Today, round 400 horses are living in a more or less 3.5-square kilometre area. They're left to fend for themselves with most effective timber and bushes for safe haven, dwelling conditions that have made the Duelmen horses specifically tough. Only when there is heavy frost or snow is hay supplied for them.
As a rule, people intrude most effective once a year: when wranglers come to catch the younger stallions by hand at the remaining Saturday in May, a sight that drew about 15,000 spectators this year to the sector where the development is held. The one-year-old stallions are rounded up and separated from the herd.
The intention is to keep the herd for the longer term by preserving it to a sustainable measurement and heading off the risk of inbreeding and territorial combating. Once they're rounded up, the younger stallions are auctioned off. They're known as good-natured horses that, with good coaching, temporarily adapt to human ownership.
On Saturday, 36 younger stallions have been caught.
The Merfelder Bruch reserve at Duelmen in western Germany, north of the densely populated Ruhr commercial region, is the remaining of what have been once many areas where wild horses may just roam. Documents mention wild horses there way back to 1316, and the dukes of Croy put aside the reserve for them within the mid-19th century. According to local authorities, it is the just one at the European continent.
Today, round 400 horses are living in a more or less 3.5-square kilometre area. They're left to fend for themselves with most effective timber and bushes for safe haven, dwelling conditions that have made the Duelmen horses specifically tough. Only when there is heavy frost or snow is hay supplied for them.
As a rule, people intrude most effective once a year: when wranglers come to catch the younger stallions by hand at the remaining Saturday in May, a sight that drew about 15,000 spectators this year to the sector where the development is held. The one-year-old stallions are rounded up and separated from the herd.
The intention is to keep the herd for the longer term by preserving it to a sustainable measurement and heading off the risk of inbreeding and territorial combating. Once they're rounded up, the younger stallions are auctioned off. They're known as good-natured horses that, with good coaching, temporarily adapt to human ownership.
On Saturday, 36 younger stallions have been caught.
German wranglers corral wild stallions
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