Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Incentive Program 2022 Update

To enhance existing protections for adopted wild horses and burros, the Bureau of Land Management announced on January 26, 2022 new changes to its Adoption Incentive Program, which offers financial incentives to adopt untrained animals from the BLM.
The BLM will now require compliance inspections of animals adopted under the Adoption Incentive Program to occur within six months of adoption. Additionally, title applications will have to be signed by a veterinarian or BLM-authorized officer for the adopter to receive the incentive payment, and the incentive payment will now be made within 60 days after title date, rather than half at the time of adoption and half at the title date. The minimum adoption fee for animals adopted through the Adoption Incentive Program is also increasing from $25 to $125.
These changes are layered upon existing protections that require adopters to certify under penalty of prosecution that they will not knowingly sell or transfer the animal for slaughter or processing into commercial products. To ensure adopted animals go to good homes, the BLM limits adopters to assuming title to a maximum of four animals within a 12-month period and prohibits the transfer of title for at least 12 months from the adoption date. Furthermore, the BLM conducts compliance inspections on animals while in private care prior to title transfer.
The Adoption Incentive Program is intended to increase adoptions of untrained wild horses and burros by offering an incentive valued up to $1,000 within 60 days after title date to adopters to defray the costs of care, such as veterinary services, feed, and training. The BLM placed 8,637 animals into private care in Fiscal Year 2021, which was the most animals adopted in the last 24 years. More than half of all wild horses and burros placed into private care last year were adopted through the Adoption Incentive Program.
Public input continues to be important to the BLM. Moving forward, the BLM plans to host roundtable sessions with various stakeholders to consider non-cash incentives that could further benefit adopted animals.
To learn more about the wild horse or burro program and how to adopt or purchase an animal, visit BLM.gov/whb. Learn more about the adoption incentive program at BLM.gov/adoption-incentive.

[@derekedwards5561]

Are any of these beautiful horses that are 16.3h to 17h?

[@teresabruffey-hall4100]

Bureau of Livestock and Mning

[@fairygodmomma2313]

Ouch...

[@cypresswyvern]

Leave our Mustangs alone. Greed is what keeps these roundups going. This land has given all it has. Your cattle profits aren't our lands problem

[@fairygodmomma2313]

Oh my...

[@rayon3383]

I agree 💯 percent! Take a look at some of the videos of BLM round-ups of the Burros in Arizona! It makes me sick to my stomach, especially when they are eating all the vegetation...it's a EFFING DESERT YOU G DAMNED POLITICIANS! It's 👌 for all the cattle out here right, nothing has changed since the 1800s

[@elizabethhd7430]

Why don't you just be honest about what you're doing with our horses yes I'm an American and they are being sold for consumption in Europe

[@fairygodmomma2313]

Make me want to adopt them first..

[@amandaopdyke8521]

please cite your sources and report it to the authrorities if you have seen this happen. Thanks

[@elizabethhd7430]

@@amandaopdyke8521 I have reported it to the authorities they just keep turning their heads like I'm not there we need to do something to save our wild horses from Slaughter

[@fairygodmomma2313]

10,200+ this far this year sold for slaughter. They die in a horrific way, BLM can make a difference... Getting the funds to maybe let the horses still run wild, AND be managed. The pens are too crowded, families separated, time to end the heartbreak.

[@JosephOjea316]

@@fairygodmomma2313 what’s wrong with slaughtering them? I like horses, and am looking to adopt one to train and ride and have as a pet. With that said, there is only so much money and room to keep them cared for. To help over population, sell them to slaughter for peoples consumption, which helps the much bigger issue, world hunger. I’m not a person that thinks an animal life is higher than that of a bother or sister. We are Jesus’ childeren, and I’m much more concerned with people being hungry. Period.
McDonald’s sold horse meet in their products until they got exposed and then stopped. Which tells me that horse meat must taste like cow meat.
I’m for it. I don’t want a single man woman or child to go hungry.

[@tinab.5169]

Please leave the horses wild...and ban the cattle space and profit ...stop these brutal roundups