The incident began on July 9. Results through August 12:
- 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: 1,765, up from 1,701 on Day 33
- Average daily take: 50.4
- Capture goal: 2,000
- Removal goal: 2,000
- Returned: 5, no change from Day 33
- Deaths: 22, no change from Day 33
- Shipped: 1,676, up from 1,644 on Day 33
The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
The number of horses captured is 1,771 and the number shipped is 1,678 according to the figures in the sidebar.
No horses were gathered on Day 34.
The death rate is 1.2%.
The capture total includes 691 stallions, 801 mares and 273 foals.
Youngsters represented 15.5% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 46.3% were male and 53.7% 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 Day 35 ranged from 3 to 4. They’re not starving.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.
*According to advocates.
Day 35 ended with 62 unaccounted-for animals.
Other statistics:
- Forage liberated to date: 21,120 AUMs per year
- Water liberated to date: 17,600 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 33.
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