Antelope Roundup North, Day 13

The incident began on July 9. Results through July 21:

Scope: Spruce-Pequop, Goshute, 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: 444, up from 347 on Day 11
Average daily take: 34.2
Capture goal: 2,000
Removal goal: 2,000
Returned: None
Deaths: 8, up from 5 on Day 11
Shipped: 371, up from 268 on Day 11

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

The number of horses shipped to date is 377 according to the summary.

A stallion was put down on Day 12 due to blindness in one eye, a non-life-threatening condition.

He’d be alive today if there was no roundup, so this “act of mercy” is chargeable thereto.

Two leg fractures were reported as deaths on Day 13, suggesting the animals were also killed by the wranglers, one related to the roundup and one pre-existing.

The death rate is 1.8%.

The capture total includes 152 stallions, 221 mares and 71 foals.

Youngsters represented 16.0% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 40.8% were male and 59.2% were female, outside the expected range of variation from a simple random process centered at 50% males / 50% females with a sample of 373 adults.

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A 16% birth rate corresponds to a growth rate of 11% per year, considerably less than the 20% growth rate used by land managers to predict herd sizes and management actions.

Body condition scores on Days 12 and 13 ranged from 3 to 4.

The location of the trap site was not disclosed.

The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.

*According to advocates.