The incident began on July 9. Results through August 6:
- 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: 1,568, up from 1,530 on Day 27
- Average daily take: 54.1
- Capture goal: 2,000
- Removal goal: 2,000
- Returned: 5, no change from Day 27
- Deaths: 21, no change from Day 27
- Shipped: 1,490, up from 1,449 on Day 27
The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
The number of horses captured is 1,574 and the number shipped is 1,492 according to the figures in the sidebar.
The death rate is 1.3%.
The capture total includes 612 stallions, 717 mares and 239 foals.
Youngsters represented 15.2% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 46.0% were male and 54.0% were female.
A 15% birth rate corresponds to a growth rate of 10% 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 28 and 29 ranged from 3 to 5.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.
*According to advocates.
Day 29 ended with 52 unaccounted-for animals.
Other statistics:
- Forage liberated to date: 18,756 AUMs per year
- Water liberated to date: 15,630 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 27.
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