Blue Wing Roundup, Day 3

The incident began on August 1. Gather stats through August 3:

The figures above are based on the daily reports.

Three burros were put down on Day 2 due to pre-existing conditions.

The burro death rate is 1.1%.

The burro total includes 155 jacks, 193 jennies and 30 foals.

Youngsters represented 7.9% of the burros captured.

Of the adults, 44.5% were male and 55.5% were female.

The herd can’t be growing at a rate of 20% per year with a birth rate of 8% per year.

A better estimate would be 3% per year, assuming a death rate of 5% per year.

The location of the trap was not disclosed.

The five HMAs in the Complex are subject to permitted grazing.

Day 3 ended with no unaccounted-for horses and 266 unaccounted-for burros.

No animals will be treated with fertility control and returned to the area according to the latest schedule.

Other statistics:

AML: 553 horses and 90 burros, equivalent to 598 horses
Forage assigned to horses and burros: 7,176 AUMs per year
Pre-gather population: 1,695 horses and 1,327 burros, equivalent to 2,359 horses
Forage liberated to date: 2,268 AUMs per year
Water liberated to date: 1,890 gallons per day
Forage assigned to livestock: 9,631 AUMs per year (estimated)
Animals displaced from Complex by permitted grazing: 802 horses
True AML: 1,355 horses and 90 burros, equivalent to 1,400 horses
Stocking rate at new AML: 1.2 horses per thousand acres
Animals displaced from Complex by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates