So young a stallion but magnificent. He was obviously a great leader and protector of his herd. My heart is sad that he had to pass so young. But left his strong and beautiful genes to live on I hope forever! Rip you beautiful boy.

Beautiful..tysm❤🐎🐎🐎

Thank You for your love for these horses and sharing your passion with the rest of the world through your photos an videos.

I will never forget the one and only time that I ever saw this beautiful stallion. He was beautiful and majestic...and oh so free. RIP Majesty

A beautiful tribute to a truely majestic horse ❤️

Barbara I am so glad that I got to see Majesty on my one trip to the Steens. By the next year he was gone. A presence missed on the mountain.

The brown tones are amazing.

What a beautiful family! They are so "painted up". I love the flaxen mane and tails! So sad about what happened to him, he was truly Majestic.

I love your videos! Thank you for posting them. More, please, more!

I've only just subscribed to your channel, have been an advocate of wild,horses for years. Wow Majesty was the right name for that beauty. I am so very sad to know he is gone though. I was looking at him and imagining if had been tamed and well cared for, groomed, etc how stunning, glossy and glowing he would be. He was definitely something beautiful. What a beautiful band of horses he created. Thank you for your work, your photography is excellent. I loved watching them all just hang out for awhile in the wind. Maybe one day I will be able to visit some wild horses in person. I am glad at least that they are able to work with many of these that have horribly been rounded up and kept. I have seen some of them at the adoption events. Every single person I have spoken with that has ever owned a mustang says they are the best horse they ever had.

Thanks for sharing these stunning photos of this magnificent animal!

Wow, Barbara, he was stunning.

Barbara . . . Your videos are Stunning!!!!

Beautiful

beautiful stallion

Two thumbs up.

Fourteen is so young for a horse to cross over the rainbow bridge to lush green pastures.

Shoot, I'd leave my mare out for him t'cover!!

beautiful horses, do you know how long a stallion keeps a herd before another takes over? it seems alot of strength is required to hold and protect a herd of mares and foals.

@barbarawheelerphoto

3 жыл бұрын

There is no hard and fast answer to that, Rose. It depends on many factors, such as whether there are gathers by the BLM, if a stallion has a lieutenant to help him defend his harem, if there are any injuries and how experienced a stallion is at having a band. Even how smart he plays it. Some stallions are so quick to fight that they exhaust themselves and others who will only fight when they have to. I've personally seen stallions with stable bands for up to 14 years (that I know of, so probably longer) and keep them even through gathers, and stallions who lost their bands after a couple of years.

I have a question for you Barbara why is this stallion freeze branded when he supposed to be wild I thought they didn't mark them unless they came in

@barbarawheelerphoto

6 жыл бұрын

Branding or not, is left up to individual BLM management. We have been to 68 herds all over the country and the Oregon BLM is the only one who freezebrands every horse who is gathered. They are also the only ones who routinely release horses back to the range. So, in Oregon, it simply means the horse has been gathered, vaccinated and aged at some point AND returned to the HMA. If you see a freezebranded horse in another state, the horse may have been gathered and branded and then the BLM decided to return them to the range (this was according to one BLM wild horse specialist I asked in WY). There may be other explanations but either way, it's unusual to see freezebranded horses anywhere but Oregon, and of course, Majesty was in Oregon. :-)

@0007molly

6 жыл бұрын

Barbara Wheeler thank you Barbara I love following you because you always respond back to everyone I really appreciate it look forward to the next video

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Thank you Barbara for the awe inspiring beautiful pictures. Nature really does make the best stunning horses!! Question: why was he branded? I thought Free Roaming Horses n Burros on HMAs are not supposed to be branded as according to the 1971 Act ? Is this BLM branding still happening in Utah?

@barbarawheelerphoto

6 жыл бұрын

Sondra, there is no mention of branding in the WH&B Act. Branding or not, is left up to individual BLM management. We have been to 68 herds all over the country and the Oregon BLM is the only one who freezebrands every horse who is gathered. They are also the only ones who routinely release horses back to the range. So, in Oregon, it simply means the horse has been gathered, vaccinated and aged at some point AND returned to the HMA. If you see a freezebranded horse in another state, the horse may have been gathered and branded and then the BLM decided to return them to the range (this was according to one BLM wild horse specialist I asked in WY). There may be other explanations but either way, it's unusual to see freezebranded horses anywhere but Oregon, and of course, Majesty was from Oregon. :-)

Do you know who took his beautiful herd??

@barbarawheelerphoto

3 жыл бұрын

This occurred in 2012, Kimberley. The band was taken over by Majesty's lieutenant, Jack, who was band stallion for several years. Several of the horses have since died and others are in different bands with other band stallions.

How many wild horse are left in the wild

@barbarawheelerphoto

6 жыл бұрын

The last time I looked this up it was ~45,000. Small compared to even one state's population of elk or deer and a fraction of the cattle on public lands.

Do you happen to know of any baby photos of Majesty? My friend owns a Steens mustang who she adopted in 1998. He looks so much like Majesty. I often wonder if they may be closely related. We have photos of her boy as a bachelor before gather, so curious to see if there's any young ones of Majesty.

@barbarawheelerphoto

5 жыл бұрын

I do not know of any photos of Majesty as a foal or even a bachelor, I'llBeBold. He was born ~1998 and at that time, there were not a lot of photographers going regularly to the Steens. We first saw him in 2007.

@illbebold

5 жыл бұрын

@@barbarawheelerphoto I had a feeling, as I know there were few photographers out there. I don't even know who took the ones we have of my friend's boy, though I sorely wish I did. Thanks for the quick response!

How did he die?

@barbarawheelerphoto

6 жыл бұрын

He suffered a mortal injury, jeep girl, and was humanely euthanized by the BLM.

@wingman559

5 жыл бұрын

Barbara Wheeler sad...he was such a handsome stallion and rare color as well.

Any of his offsprings have that color?

@barbarawheelerphoto

5 жыл бұрын

Majesty has many silver offspring, but none that look just like him. I have a gallery on my website of Majesty and his offspring, as well as a number of silver horses in the Steens. barbarawheelerphotography.com/Majesty barbarawheelerphotography.com/thosesilvers

what happen to him?

@barbarawheelerphoto

6 жыл бұрын

He suffered a mortal injury and was humanely euthanized, Elli.

Грация

Liver chestnut paint...

He threw purty color on his get...

Hi Why does Majesty have a BLM brand. I thought wild horses were only branded when captured for permanent removal

@barbarawheelerphoto

6 жыл бұрын

Not in Oregon, Sondra. Most mustangs who are gathered are branded, whether released or not. It's the only state that I am aware of that does this, but it's also the only state I know that manages horses in this way. In many other places, if they are gathered, that's it. But Oregon selectively releases for color, conformation and genetics.