Are Brumbies diseased or inbred?
Free ranging horses living in the wild look after themselves very well. They know what they need in terms of nutrition and will forage for it. No horse that we have handled has been diseased, unhealthy or inbred; they have less worm burdens than domestic horses. Horses from Guy Fawkes were D.N.A tested and showed less inbreeding than is found in the thoroughbred industry. We have not seen one genuine case of inbreeding in any horse that has gone through our programs. It is only when large numbers of horses are confined to small areas of grazing that inbreeding may occur and this is usual in any animal population, wild or domestic.
