Rock Springs Roundup Day 14

The incident began on October 7.  Gather stats through October 20:

• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Horses captured: 408, up from 285 on Day 11
• Average daily take: 29.1
• Capture goal: 4,400
• Removal goal: 3,500
• Returned: 1
• Deaths: 4, no change from Day 11
• Shipped: 269, up from 214 on Day 11

No activity occurred on Day 13 due to poor road conditions.

The death rate through Day 14 is 1.0%.

Foals represented 20.8% of the horses captured.  Of the adults, 56.7% were male and 43.3% were female.

Body condition scores were not reported.

The cumulative totals at the gather page show one horse returned to the range but the daily reports do not indicate when.

The location of gather ops was not given.  Five HMAs are involved in the roundup.

Day 14 ended with 134 unaccounted-for animals.

Other statistics:

• AML: 2,165 (across five HMAs)
• Forage assigned to horses: 25,980 AUMs per year
• Pre-gather population: 5,105
• Forage liberated to date: 4,884 AUMs per year
• Water liberated to date: 4,070 gallons per day
• Forage assigned to livestock: 191,791 AUMs per year (estimated)
• Horses displaced from HMAs by livestock: 15,982 (32% of off-range holding)
• True AML: 18,147

RELATED: Rock Springs Roundup Day 11.