The Stallion and the Foal |
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While photographing in the McCullough Peaks Wild Horse Management area in April, 2008, we came upon one of the most unusual and dramatic situations I've seen since I began documenting the wild horses. It was brought to the attention of my husband and I that there was possibly an abandoned foal in the company of a bachelor stallion known as "Chaco." The two most plausible reasons why this foal may have been abandoned might be that a visitor had gotten too close to a new mother and she abandoned the foal (which is becoming more problematic as the number of visitors to the McCullough Peaks HMA increases) or, the mare foaled very close to the fenceline (as seen in the photos) and the foal simply rolled under the fence where the mare was unable to reach it. In any case, Chaco became this foal's guardian and he took this responsibility very seriously as evidenced when another bachelor stallion, "Chiricahua" came to investigate the little Palomino-colored youngster. The following images depict the longest and most fierce stallion battle I have ever witnessed. As I prepared to follow the action through my lens, I felt myself beginning to tense up and I think I was shaking. Were we about to watch this little foal get caught up in and probably trampled during this stallion confrontation? That was not an image I wanted to capture.
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