🐎Why Do We Have The Przewalski's Horse?

Hi everyone! My name is Becca. I'm an animal care specialist in the hoofstock department here at Fossil Rim and we are at our peahorse enclosure. We currently have four stallions on property. They're currently housed together. Their names are Dash, Tegus, Arslan, and Gin. So we don't have a captive breeding population of peahorses here at Fossil Rim, but we can help out other facilities that are breeding the peahorses by holding on to their extra males. For most breeding populations of hoofstock, you're going to have an excess of males in the population. You typically need a herd of 20, 30, 40, sometimes females in a group and you need one stallion or one bull to go in and breed with those girls for usually a couple years. So you usually have excess males that are born every year that don't have a home because they can't stay in their herd because they'll get kicked out by the most dominant male who is breeding and that happens naturally in the wild as well and so in captivity it's helpful to have facilities that will just hold on to those extra boys. All four of our stallions are genetically valuable to the population so at some point in coming years, one or multiple of our stallions could need to go to another facility to join a breeding herd and to help further the population. So when we reopen to the public, if you'd like a chance to see our peahorses, you can book an adventure tour. It's a private guided tour that goes behind the scenes to many of the animal enclosures that you don't have a chance to see and aren't accessible to the public on the drive. In the meantime, if you'd like to support the peahorses and the rest of the animals at Fossil Rim, you can go to fossilrim.org to see how you can help.