Barren Valley Roundup Day 7

The incident began on September 8.  Gather stats through September 14:

• Type: Emergency
• Method: Helicopter
• Horses captured: 491, up from 316 on Day 5
• Average daily take: 70.1
• Capture goal: 1,900
• Removal goal: 1,900
• Returned: 0
• Deaths: 6, no change from Day 5
• Shipped: 379, up from 270 on Day 5

The death rate decreased from 1.9% to 1.2%.

Foals represented 21.2% of the horses gathered.  Of the adults, 47.3% were male and 52.7% were female.

Body condition scores on Days 6 and 7 ranged from three to four.

Three HMAs are involved in the roundup.

Day 7 ended with 106 unaccounted-for animals.

Other statistics:

• AML: 892 (total for three HMAs)
• Forage assigned to horses: 10,704 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 2,500
• Forage liberated to date: 5,892 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 4,910 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: 27,011 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Horses displaced from Complex by livestock: 2,258 (4.5% of off-range holding)
• True AML: 3,150

RELATED: Barren Valley Roundup Day 5.