Exposing the Hypocrisy, Lies and Incompetence of the Wild Horse Advocates
Results as of May 4.
| Location | Animals captured | Deaths | Death rate | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caliente | 248 | 9 | 3.6% | |
| Antelope/Triple B | 137 | 3 | 2.2% | |
| Pancake | 300 | 5 | 1.7% | Complete |
| Bullfrog | 513 | 4 | 0.8% | Complete |
| Black Mountain | 371 | 1 | 0.3% | |
| Lake Pleasant | 435 | 1 | 0.2% | |
| Spring Mountains | 251 | 0 | 0.0% | |
| Bordo Atravesado | Not started |
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The count as of May 3 was 31.
Thunderbolt is the top producer, sire of five.
Chief trails Thunderbolt with four.
Fillies outnumber colts 16-11, with four undetermined.
The herd, known for its highly abnormal sex ratio, has been engineered for maximum production and maximum revenues from the pony auctions.
Meanwhile, at the Salt River, where the advocates work tirelessly to defend and protect the herd, no new foals have been reported.
RELATED: Chincoteague Foaling Season Underway.
UPDATE: Here is a link to the spreadsheet with pivot tables.
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At Grayson Highlands State Park with Samm’s Simple Life.
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The bill was referred to the Finance Committee with a hearing set for May 5.
RELATED: House Passes HB26-1306.
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What they’re not telling you is that it’s not possible to reduce a herd by 40% with birth control and natural attrition without sterilizing the mares.
A 40% herd reduction, assuming a 6% death rate, would require about eight years.
The mares will be sterile after five years of treatment.
If the Forest Service took the herd from 450 to 270, the advocates would be howling.
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If you did, and you understood what the advocates were doing with them, then maybe you’d stop giving them money.
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The BLM has not yet identified an immunocontraceptive method that has been proven to reliably and humanely sterilize wild mares according to the Silver King EA, published earlier this week (page 136 in the pdf).
An oocyte growth factor vaccine is currently under testing for its ability to cause long-term infertility or, potentially, sterility.
As for the approved methods, “Mares that received 5 or more doses of ZonaStat-H vaccine have been shown to have reduced ovarian function, and to be effectively infertile for life (Nuñez et al. 2017), and it is conceivable that the contraceptive effects of repeated treatment with GonaCon-Equine may last longer than a mare’s lifespan, depending on the mare’s age at treatment and the number of doses received (Baker et al. 2018, 2023).”
Researchers at Purdue are working on a formulation that does the job with one shot.
The advocates, evil beyond imagination, are not waiting for scientific breakthroughs.
They’re demonstrating the feasibility of mass sterilization at the Salt River, Virginia Range and elsewhere.
The pesticides do not kill horses, as stated on page 15 of the EA, they kill herds, much to the delight of the ranchers and their political allies.
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They need a way to make their lies seem plausible.
The faulty hypothesis is the sperm-blocking theory.
If you stand in the rain with an umbrella, you don’t get wet.
If you set it aside, you get wet.
Hold it up, you stay dry.
Let it down, you get wet.
The umbrella blocks the rain.
Here’s how PZP really works.
If you hold up the umbrella for an hour, you can let it down for an hour before you get wet.
If you hold it up for two hours, you can let it down for two hours before you get wet.
If you hold it up for at least five hours, you can get rid of it. You won’t get wet no matter how long the storm lasts.
The umbrella made you impermeable.
The distinction between the “historically accepted hypothesis” and a “complementary hypothesis,” which asserts that impermeability is the result of damaged or destroyed ovaries, is discussed on page 135 (138 in the pdf) of the Silver King EA.
See also the ISPMB report starting on page 30.
RELATED: Silver King EA Out for Review.
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It’s in the documents folder with comments due by May 29.
The news release solicits public input but does not indicate for what.
Alternative A, the Proposed Action, features forcible removal to low AML, sex ratio skewing and application of fertility control pesticides. Refer to section 2.4.
The new HMAP is discussed in Appendix XII.
The HMA overlaps nine grazing allotments per section 3.7 and is managed principally for livestock.
RELATED: Scoping Begins for Silver King HMAP.
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Why would Larry Don Suckla, a Colorado Republican, be so interested in a bill crafted by liberals, signing on as a cosponsor?
Because he runs cattle in Gypsum Valleys, a short distance from the Spring Creek Basin HMA.
The bill, if signed into law, would help the state buy pesticides to beat the horse populations down in favor of livestock.
The allotment master report puts Gypsum Valleys in the Improve category, suggesting that your stewards of the public lands are not taking their responsibilities seriously.
The allotment offers 1,777 active AUMs on 41,187 public acres, equivalent to 3.6 wild horses per thousand public acres.
The target stocking rate across all HMAs is one wild horse per thousand acres.
Above that, rangeland health will suffer according to your faithful public servants.
Yet they allow almost four times as many animals per public acre in Gypsum Valleys, another example of management duplicity.
As for Suckla, he’s probably sending Christmas cards and birthday greetings to TJ Holmes, the rangeland eugenicist at Spring Creek Basin.
RELATED: Colorado Rep Spills the Beans on HB26-1306.
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The bill cleared the chamber today 52-11-2 following a heated debate.
You can view the proceedings by selecting the Agenda tab at the video recording and clicking on HB26-1306 at timestamp 1:27:26 PM.
RELATED: Colorado Rep Spills the Beans on HB26-1306.
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The incident will begin on or around May 6 according to the news release.
The capture and removal goals are 26 each.
The target is horses.
The current population was not given.
The HMA covers 19,614 total acres, including 16,487 public acres, and the number of animals allowed by plan is 60.
Operations will not be open to public observation.
The destination of animals identified for removal was not provided.
There are no plans to treat any of the mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.
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The advocates are nodding in agreement.
Suckla is a farmer and rancher in Cortez according to his profile in Wikipedia.
RELATED: Appropriations Committee Approves HB26-1306 with Amendments.
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At the Currituck Outer Banks with Worth The Pennies.
It’s not clear if the darting program was shut off soon enough to avoid herd collapse.
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The population climbed to 83 in March, up from 79 a year earlier, according to an undated report by NPS.
The number of births and deaths were not given.
Females outnumbered males by a margin of 1.4:1.
A population with that sex ratio should produce many more foals but it can’t because the mares have been ruined with PZP.
Contrary to a statement in the report, the herd cannot maintain genetic diversity because the breeding population is too small. Refer to 4.4.6.3 in H-4700-1.
Genetic diversity and long-term viability correlate with birth rates, not herd sizes as the advocates would have you believe.
RELATED: Assateague Herd Grows Slightly.
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The measure carried on a voice vote of 9 to 2.
The hearing was called to order at timestamp 8:32:10 in the video.
The vote was taken at 8:36:01.
The next step is a second reading of the bill on April 28.
RELATED: Appropriations Committee to Consider HB26-1306.
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Who’s leading the charge? The woman who organized the mass sterilization program at the Salt River, taking the herd from 450 to 280, and who will accelerate the decline with motorized removal starting this summer.
The area along the Mogollon Rim is covered by grazing allotments.
No roundups have been announced at the USFS news site or ASNF news site.
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The webinar will cover the proposal process and requirements for facilities that care for wild horses and burros removed from public lands.
The event runs from 5:00 to 6:00 PM CDT on May 7 according to the news release.
Registration is required.
RELATED: BLM Seeks Off-Range Corrals in Eastern U.S.
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This column has always been dedicated to the wild horse advocates, who are wrong about everything, especially the importance of reproduction to herd survival.
How can you start a nonprofit and attract a large following yet be so out of touch?
As a gentle reminder of their errors, add comments to their socialist media pages about the consequences of their darting programs, such as abnormal sex ratios, injuries and infections, increasing death rates and loss of genetic diversity.
Links to anything on Western Horse Watchers would be most unwelcome.
It won’t change their minds but it might dissuade others from joining their movement.
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Three fillies and a colt have come out of hiding according to a report by WITN News.
Meanwhile, at the Chincoteague NWR, the foal count has climbed to 13.
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