With 30 stallions and 27 nonviable mares returned post-gather, the herd can be moved into the nonreproducing column.
Although GonaCon Equine may not be the #1 choice of the wild horse advocates, they got what they wanted: Nonmotorized removal by ovary-killing pesticide.
This is what they’re doing on the Salt River and Virginia Range.
With few if any births expected in the next five years, and a death rate of five percent per year, the Reveille herd will shrink around 22%.
Next up: Hog Creek HMA.
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