Day 24, cold and wet, 12/13/15. Get your butt out there and clean that corral.

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Day 24, cold and wet, 12/13/15. Get your butt out there and clean that corral.

Bachelors airing out their differences on the Virginia Range. H/T Carla Hovorka.
Patience, a good technique for gentling mustangs too. Blind horses gathered from the range usually don’t get a second chance. Refer also to the daily reports from roundups going on now in Nevada and Utah.
Some test results have been received and several conditions have been ruled out, but the cause of the ailment remains unknown. Details can be found in a report dated 08/08/18 by West Hawaii Today.
Other tests are pending and no new cases have been reported. Fifteen animals have been affected and twelve have died.
RELATED: Update on Waipio Valley Horses.
Day 3, settling in. Photos taken while laying down in their corral, 11/22/15. You are the threat, not them.



Short film about wild horse history and photography. WTWT.
What is it about wild horses that everybody loves? Most people are drawn to these majestic animals and appreciate their role in building the nation. Some can only see horsemeat dinner.
H/T The Natural History Channel.
Helicopters are flying low to the ground and too close to the fleeing animals according to a report posted today by KJZZ in Salt Lake City. Horses have been pushed into barbed wire fencing, with some stumbling and falling. Personnel from the American Wild Horse Campaign asked the BLM to suspend the operation until the situation can be investigated.
“Stampeding horses in a manner that leaves foals behind is unconscionable.”
Photos posted to the AWHC FB page.
RELATED: Bible Springs Next on BLM Hit List.
The annual open house for Wild Horse Sanctuary will be held 08/18/18, featuring wild horse viewing, horse rides for kids under 10 and saddling demonstrations. See the announcement in Shingletown dot com for the event location. Food and beverages will be available.
The non-profit organization was founded in 1978 and is currently home to over 300 free-roaming horses and burros. It’s not an off-range pasture for the BLM.
A reward program has been created by the Navajo Nation to reduce overpopulation of wild horses on tribal lands. See the report dated 08/07/18 by KMYU-TV.
The program was funded by a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior.
The story did not indicate what will happen to horses surrendered under the program or why the offer was made.
Is this the will of a sovereign people or did somebody put a bug in their ear? Cui bono?
There are some sick minds out there already setting their tables for horsemeat dinner.
RELATED: Wild Horses Found Dead in Arizona.
Day 1, exploring. Mom/baby pair, adopted from BLM Oregon. Photos taken 11/19/15.



Somewhere in Lake Pleasant HMA, north of Phoenix, AZ. H/T Sean George.
Check out the photo in this article of mountain biker Jeremy Hottinger going airborne at Wild Horse Monument near Vantage, WA. The image was captured by freelance photographer Ben Herndon. The venue is an unfinished sculpture on top of a ridge featuring wild mustangs.
The sculpture appears in the following video.
RELATED: Grandfather Cuts Loose the Ponies.
Virginia Range band, somewhere along Clean Water Way in Sparks, NV. North of Hidden Valley. Stallion in foreground.
H/T Dr. Jennifer Jewell, PhD.
Some of them are a bit furry, not what you’d expect to see in mid summer. Those scenes may have been filmed earlier in the year.
H/T CBS Sunday Morning.
BLM announced on 08/02/18 that it would be holding a wild horse and burro sale event at the Wyandotte County Fairgrounds August 24 – 25. Fifty animals will be available for purchase, cash and carry.
Adoption is not the preferred method nowadays?
Refer to the news release for directions. Availability of WHB posters unknown.

All can be forgiven…until she takes your horse.
No, it doesn’t. It benefits the government serfs who fatten their cattle on public lands at fire-sale prices. Fewer horses on the range means more forage for livestock. Keep the gravy train going, more cattlemen sucking the sugar teat.
The text posted with the video is propaganda, typical for the kooks at Protect the Harvest, who said earlier this year the Virginia Range had been decimated by wild horses. (Go to the Index, scroll down to Virginia Range and look at the photos.)
Yep, female genital mutilation is good. Nice job PTH. Allahu Akbar.
Note the collaboration of BLM, Zoetis and Priefert on the project.
Researchers at Colorado State University will help the BLM perfect a rarely used sterilization procedure, known as ovariectomy via colpotomy, for removing a mare’s ovaries, according to a report dated 08/03/18 in the Coloradoan. If approved, the study will begin in October.
Public acceptance of fertility control was a first step. Now the focus is fertility prevention.
Who benefits? Why would the BLM engage in such barbaric practices?
It’s not about reducing costs of the WHB program. There are no plans to close departments, sell buildings and lay people off if the research is ‘successful.’
The move is a payoff to the livestock industry, with whom the BLM has been aligned for decades. Ranchers look at the horses and burros as pests, consuming forage that belongs to them—on lands sent aside for the horses and burros. The WHB Act, amended several times in their favor, has been a pain in their backside since 1971.
Eighty percent of Americans want these animals protected and preserved. But it doesn’t matter, because the BLM doesn’t answer to the voters.
Two hundred mares, gathered from the range, will be placed in the program. Of the 100 mares to be spayed, 30 will be returned to the range and 70 will go to adoption, some of whom may appear in the demonic Wild Spayed Filly Futurity.