Zonastat-H, the ovary-killing pesticide known as PZP, skews sex ratios in favor of females.
The advocates refer to this as mares living longer.
The Park Service reported in March that the herd on the Maryland side of Assateague Island consisted of 29 stallions and 46 mares.
The Assateague Island Alliance indicated 14 bands as of June 7, implying that 14 stallions were trying to breed.
They also indicated that the current herd of 81 included seven foals, suggesting that only a handful of mares can bear fruit.
Thus, the breeding population is not 81, but much smaller.
Given that only seven foals were born in 2023, the breeding population could range from eight (one stallion and seven mares) to fourteen (seven stallions and seven mares).
Why aren’t the advocates worried about genetic diversity?
Why the low birth rate? The darting program was shut off seven years ago.
Most of the mares have been ruined by the safe, proven and reversible fertility control vaccine.
Moreover, it’s not an accident.
You can’t have a surplus of viable females when you’re trying to drive the population into the ground.
This is what’s happening at the Salt River and Virginia Range, courtesy of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its army of nitwits.
The advocates know that PZP is a sterilant. If they pummel the mares for at least five years, the herd won’t bounce back.
They can then walk away and ruin another one, with the aid of your donations, to the delight of the bureaucrats and ranchers.
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