The incident began on July 9. Results through August 2:
- 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: 1,344, up from 1,201 on Day 23
- Average daily take: 53.8
- Capture goal: 2,000
- Removal goal: 2,000
- Returned: 5, up from 2 on Day 23
- Deaths: 17, no change from Day 23
- Shipped: 1,251, up from 1,126 on Day 23
The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
The number of horses captured is 1,350 and the number shipped is 1,253 according to the figures in the sidebar.
The death rate is 1.3%.
A stallion was released (or escaped) on Day 24, followed by two more on Day 25, but no details were given.
The capture total includes 523 stallions, 612 mares and 209 foals.
Youngsters represented 15.6% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 46.1% were male and 53.9% were female.
A 16% birth rate corresponds to a growth rate of 11% per year, a bit less than the 20% growth rate used by land managers to predict herd sizes and management actions.
Body condition scores on Days 24 and 25 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.
Day 25 ended with 71 unaccounted-for animals.
Other statistics:
- Forage liberated to date: 16,068 AUMs per year
- Water liberated to date: 13,390 gallons per day
- Forage assigned to livestock: Unknown
- Horses displaced from area by permitted grazing: Unknown
- True AML: Unknown
- Stocking rate at new AML: Unknown
- Horses removed because of drilling and mining: Ask the advocates
Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.
RELATED: Antelope Roundup North, Day 23.
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