CURRENT HERD
Click on a link below to see a listing of the 80 horses by Keiper Number, by Name and by Band. Any unnamed foals born this year will have their dam's name shown as their name.
(Bands subject to frequent changes - Listing updated monthly)
* - denotes horse that frequently wanders between bands
**-horse is generally with the referenced band but was not seen with them recently
Horses in bold below denotes males
When researcher Dr. Ronald Keiper began studying the Assateague horses in 1975, he developed a system that could identify, and trace the maternal ancestry of, each individual horse. The system of alpha-numeric identification numbers he came up with are now known as "Keiper numbers"
To learn more about Keiper numbers click on the link below
https://assateagueislandalliance.org/pages/learn