Antelope Roundup Summary, Day 11

The incidents began on July 9 (North | South).  Combined results through July 19:

• Scope: Spruce-Pequop, Goshute, Antelope, Antelope Valley HMAs
• Purpose: Pest control, resource enforcement, rancher protection
• Target: Horses
• Type: Planned
• Method: Helicopter
• Category: Cruel and costly*
• Better way: Poison mares with ovary-killing pesticides*
• Captured: 1,173
• Average daily take: 106.6
• Capture goal: 3,107
• Removal goal: 3,107
• Percent complete: 37.8
• Returned: 2
• Deaths: 12
• Shipped: 1,051

The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.

The death rate is 1.0%.

The capture total includes 366 stallions, 557 mares and 250 foals.

Youngsters represented 21.3% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 39.7% were male and 60.3% were female, outside the expected range of variation from a simple random process centered at 50% males / 50% females with a sample of 923 adults.

A birth rate of 21% per year corresponds to a growth rate of 16% per year.

Day 11 ended with 108 unaccounted-for animals.

The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing, with livestock receiving an estimated 7.7 times more forage than horses inside the Complex.

*According to advocates.

RELATED: Antelope Roundup North, Day 11, Antelope Roundup South, Day 11.