Antelope Roundup Summary, Day 15

The incidents began on July 9 (North | South).  Combined results through July 23:

• 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: 1,574
• Average daily take: 104.9
• Capture goal: 3,107
• Removal goal: 3,107
• Percent complete: 50.7
• Returned: 3
• Deaths: 18
• Shipped: 1,368

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

The death rate is 1.1%.

The capture total includes 523 stallions, 740 mares and 311 foals.

Youngsters represented 19.8% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 41.4% were male and 58.6% were female, outside the expected range of variation from a simple random process centered at 50% males / 50% females with a sample of 1,263 adults.

A birth rate of 20% per year corresponds to a herd growth rate of 15% per year.

Day 15 ended with 185 unaccounted-for animals.

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

*According to advocates.

RELATED: Antelope Roundup North, Day 15, Antelope Roundup South, Day 15.