Antelope Roundup Day 18

The incident began on August 2.  Gather stats through August 19:

• Horses captured: 1,402, up from 1,244 on Day 16
• Average take: 77.9 horses per day
• Capture goal: 2,200
• Removal goal: 2,200
• Returned: 0
• Deaths: 6, up from 5 on Day 16
• Shipped: 1,314, up from 1,185 on Day 16

A stallion was put down on Day 18 due to a physical defect.  The death rate is 0.4%.

Foals accounted for 18.1% of the horses gathered.  Of the adults, 43.8% were male and 56.2% were female.

Body condition scores were not reported.

Day 18 ended with 82 unaccounted-for animals.

The observed percentages of males and females cannot be explained by a simple random process centered at 50% males / 50% females with n = 1,148 adults.  The sex of the foals was not provided.

Other statistics:

• AML: 789 (four HMAs involved)
• Forage assigned to horses: 9,468 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 6,032 plus foals
• Forage liberated to date: 16,824 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 14,020 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: 72,946 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Horses displaced from HMAs by livestock: 6,079 (12% of off-range holding)
• True AML: 6,868

RELATED: Antelope Roundup Day 16.