National Mustang Association

11/02/2026

🌧️🐴 From Drought to Downpours — Horse Owners, Watch Out for Rain Rot!

Here in Southwest Colorado, we've been dealing with severe drought conditions for as long as many of us can remember. Now, we're experiencing record rainfall, and while the moisture is certainly welcome, it brings some challenges we're not accustomed to dealing with.

One of those challenges is rain rot in horses.

Rain rot is a bacterial skin infection that thrives in prolonged wet conditions. When horses are constantly exposed to moisture and their coats don't have a chance to dry out, they become more susceptible.

What to watch for:
🐎 Small, crusty bumps beneath the hair

🐎 Scabs that pull away with tufts of hair

🐎 Patchy hair loss, particularly along the back, rump, and neck

🐎 Tender or irritated skin

How to prevent and manage it:

✅ Provide shelter and opportunities for horses to dry out.

✅ Regularly check beneath their coats for bumps and scabs.

✅ Treat affected areas with an appropriate veterinary antiseptic, such as chlorhexidine shampoo, following product directions.

✅ Avoid forcibly removing scabs that are firmly attached.

✅ Clean grooming equipment and avoid sharing brushes between affected horses.

✅ Contact your veterinarian if the infection becomes severe or isn't improving.

After years of drought, most of us aren't accustomed to managing horses through weeks of continuous rain. Our horses aren't necessarily accustomed to it either!

While we're grateful for the moisture, it's important to recognize that these changing conditions can create new challenges for livestock owners.

🐴 Fellow horse owners, are you starting to see rain rot with all this moisture? What have you found works best for preventing or treating it?

Let's share some experience and help each other out!

10/31/2026

Happy Halloween! Show us your equine costumes.

10/23/2026

🐴❤️ **60+ Wild Horses Given a Second Chance — Now We Need Your Help!**

Since 2021, the National Mustang Association (NMA) has helped more than 60 wild horses find new homes. Now, we're preparing for our biggest challenge yet!

With another wild horse removal anticipated at Mesa Verde National Park in spring 2027, approximately 30 horses may need a safe place to land.

Thanks to the generosity of the Douglas Family, NMA has been gifted 10 acres outside Cortez, Colorado, where we're building the **Douglas Family Wild Horse Transition & Training Facility.**

We've completed our perimeter fencing, but there's still a lot of work ahead! We need electricity, horse pens, shelters, hay, and veterinary care to prepare for the horses that may soon depend on us.

❤️ **That's where YOU come in!**

NMA is an entirely volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Every dollar donated goes toward supporting our mission of giving wild horses a second chance.

🐎 **Our goal is simple: A safe landing today, a brighter future tomorrow.**

Please consider donating through Colorado Gives. Even if you can't donate, sharing this post helps us reach people who can!

👇 **Support Rescue Mustangs: A Safe Future!**

https://mtyc.co/mkd94g

❤️ Together, we can make a difference — one wild horse at a time!

NMA is raising funds to build a transition and training facility for wild horses, a safe landing.

10/12/2026

Here is our draft facility layout. Next steps are getting electricity and water to our donated property. Please donate. This is a volunteer ran Association, we are doing it for the horses.

10/09/2026

🐴 WANT TO HELP SAVE WILD HORSES? WE NEED YOU!

The National Mustang Association is looking for volunteers to help us secure corporate sponsorships!

🎯 Our goal is to raise $93,000 by May 2027 to prepare our new Wild Horse Transition & Training Facility for approximately 30 wild horses scheduled to be removed from Mesa Verde National Park.

We currently have two volunteers working on grants, but we need more people helping us connect with businesses, corporations, and potential sponsors!

🤝 Do you have business connections? Are you comfortable reaching out to companies? Or are you simply passionate about helping wild horses?

You don't have to donate money to make a difference! Sometimes making an introduction or sending an email can lead to a sponsorship that changes everything.

NMA is 100% volunteer-run, and we've already helped more than 60 wild horses find homes. Now we need your help preparing for the next 30!

❤️ We have the land. We have the mission. Now we need the funding to make it happen!

Interested in joining our sponsorship team? Comment below, message us, or email [email protected].

🌐 www.nmaco.org

Together, we can give these wild horses a safe landing! 🐎oradoMustangs

10/01/2026

🐴 **WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO SAY YES TO ALL 30.**

Next year, approximately 30 horses are expected to be removed from Mesa Verde National Park.

The National Mustang Association is working now to make sure we have the capacity to provide a safe landing for **every one of them**.

Here is what we estimate we will need to be ready for all 30 horses:

• **57 Rancher panels — $17,385**
• **3 additional shelters — $16,500**
• **Approximately 6 months of hay — $12,800**
• **Gelding for an estimated 15 stallions — $15,000**
• **Electricity to the facility — approximately $30,000**

That is a total need of approximately **$91,685.**

So far, we have raised:

⚡ **$1,600 of $30,000 for electricity**
🌾 **$1,185 of $12,800 for hay**

Donate here:
https://nmaco.org/join-the-cause/

We are incredibly grateful for every person who has already contributed. But we need many more people to join them.

**Hoping someone else will donate will not get us to our goal.**

If thousands of people each give just $10, suddenly something that seems overwhelming becomes possible.

This is beyond the debate over fertility management or whether these horses should remain where they are. **The remaining Mesa Verde horses are slated for removal regardless.**

These are unprotected horses with a long history on this landscape. Horses were present on the lands that became Mesa Verde National Park before the Park was established in 1906.

Regardless of politics or how anyone feels about wild-horse management, **they deserve a safe landing.**

Our goal is simple:

When that call comes next year, we don't want to have to say, **“We don't have room.”**

We want to say:

❤️ **“YES. We can take them.”**

But we cannot do that without you.

Please donate whatever you can — **$10, $20, $50 or more.** Every panel, every bale of hay, every shelter and every dollar toward infrastructure gets us closer.

🐴 **30 horses. One safe landing. A community that can make it happen.**

National Mustang Association
100% volunteer-run

Donate Here: https://nmaco.org/join-the-cause/

09/29/2026

🐴 WE HAVE UNTIL NEXT MAY — AND MESA VERDE IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.

Next spring, Mesa Verde National Park is expected to conduct a roundup to remove the remaining wild horses from the Park. We estimate there may be around 30 horses, and the National Mustang Association wants to be prepared to provide a safe landing for as many of them as possible.

Right now, our facility is equipped to safely hold approximately 12 horses. To prepare for a larger number by next May, we still need:

• 57 Rancher panels — $17,385
• 3 additional shelters — $16,500
• Approximately 6 months of hay for 30 horses — $12,800
• Gelding for an estimated 15 stallions — $15,000
• Electricity to the facility — approximately $30,000

That is $91,685 in known needs — and that doesn't include every veterinary expense or unexpected cost that may come with taking in wild horses.

That number sounds enormous.

If just 4,585 people donated $20, these known needs could be funded.

And this facility isn't being built for one roundup.

There are approximately 150 unprotected wild horses in the Canyons of the Ancients area that are expected to eventually be removed from the range.

There are approximately 15 more in the Weber area that are expected to be removed.

And beyond our immediate area, thousands of horses live on tribal lands and reservations, where horses are regularly removed from the range.

We will continue advocating for humane, responsible fertility management so fewer horses ever reach the point where removal becomes necessary.

But advocacy alone doesn't solve the problem facing the horses being removed right now.

They need somewhere to go.

That is why the National Mustang Association is building the Douglas Family Wild Horse Transition & Training Facility — a place where wild horses can safely land while we work to get them veterinary care, training, sanctuary placement or permanent adoptive homes.

We have already found homes for more than 60 wild horses that have come into our care.

We are 100% volunteer-run. There are no salaries. Donations go toward the horses, the facility, insurance, fees and the expenses necessary to keep doing this work.

Our goal isn't to warehouse wild horses.

Our goal is to give them a safe landing and a path forward.

🐴 $20 × 4,585 people = $91,700.

That's enough to cover the known needs we've identified to prepare for next spring.

If you can't donate, please SHARE. Someone in your circle may be able to help.

Every panel matters.
Every bale of hay matters.
Every shelter matters.
Every $20 matters.

Help us be ready by May. ❤️🐴

https://nmaco.org/join-the-cause/

09/25/2026

🐴 MESA VERDE MUSTANGS NEED US — AND WE NEED TO BE READY.

Mesa Verde National Park is planning a helicopter roundup in 2027 to remove the remaining wild horses from the park.

Current estimates are approximately 30 horses remaining.

The National Mustang Association wants to be prepared to provide a safe landing for all 30 horses if necessary.

But being willing to take them isn't enough. We have to be ready for them.

By next spring, here's what we still need:

🐴 57 Rancher panels — $17,385
🏠 3 shelters — $16,500
🌾 80 large bales of hay — $12,800
🩺 Estimated gelding costs for 15 males — $15,000
⚡ Electricity to the facility — $30,000
TOTAL: $91,685

That's a big number for a small nonprofit.
But here's something pretty incredible:

There are more than 16,000 of you following NMA.

If every follower donated just $6, together we would raise $96,000.

Six dollars.

We don't need everyone to write a $1,000 check. We need a whole lot of people willing to do a little.

And we want you to know exactly where your donation goes.

NMA is 100% volunteer-run.

Your donations are not paying our salaries. We don't have paid employees. Our volunteers donate their time so the money we raise can support the horses and the work necessary to care for them.

Your donation helps build their pens.

It helps put shelters over their heads.

It helps put hay in front of them.

It helps provide necessary veterinary care.

And it helps us bring power to the facility that will care for them.

Since 2021, NMA has helped find homes for more than 60 wild horses we've taken ownership of.

We know how to find homes.

What we need now is the ability to say YES when these horses need somewhere to go.

🌾 $160 = one ¾-ton bale of hay
🐴 $305 = one Rancher panel
🩺 $1,000 = estimated cost to geld one stallion
🏠 $5,500 = one shelter
❤️ $6 = your part of a 16,000-person community making this possible
The roundup may be months away, but we cannot build this facility overnight.

We have until spring to be ready.

16,000 followers. About 30 horses. $6 each.

🐴 Let's give the Mesa Verde mustangs a safe place to land.

DONATE HERE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=PRN3TPZ9VZUB6&source=url&ssrt=1701877964640

If you can't donate, please SHARE. Reaching the right person—a business, foundation, horse lover, or major donor—could fund an entire piece of this project.

09/23/2026

This video is very helpful for aging.

09/21/2026

📣 FUNDRAISER UPDATE

After a lot of consideration, we have made the difficult decision to postpone our Waterin’ Holes & Power Poles Fundraiser that was scheduled for September 26.

This isn't a cancellation — just a change of plans. ❤️

We are currently looking at late March or early April 2027 for a new date, and we hope you'll join us then.

Next year is going to be an incredibly important year for the National Mustang Association and the horses we work so hard to protect. Mesa Verde National Park is currently planning a helicopter roundup around the end of May to remove the remaining horses in the Park, estimated at approximately 30 horses.

That means we are going to need all hands on deck.

Between preparing for horse removals and continuing development of our Wild Horse Transition & Training Facility, there is a tremendous amount of work ahead.

We will continue accepting fundraiser/auction donations, as well as monetary donations toward bringing electricity to our facility. Every donation helps us prepare for what's coming and build the infrastructure needed to care for these horses.

We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has already donated auction items, purchased tickets, volunteered, shared our event, or supported us along the way. We have already reached out directly to those who purchased tickets.

Please stay tuned for the new date. We plan to come back with an even bigger event — because 2027 is going to be a big year for our mustangs. 🐴❤️

National Mustang Association