The incident began on July 9. Results through August 14:
- 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: 1,813, up from 1,765 on Day 35
- Average daily take: 49.0
- Capture goal: 2,000
- Removal goal: 2,000
- Returned: 5, no change from Day 35
- Deaths: 23, up from 22 on Day 35
- Shipped: 1,739, up from 1,676 on Day 35
The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
The number of horses captured is 1,819 and the number shipped is 1,741 according to the figures in the sidebar.
No horses were gathered on Day 36 and a case of swayback was reported as a death.
The death rate is 1.3%.
The capture total includes 710 stallions, 823 mares and 280 foals.
Youngsters represented 15.4% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 46.3% were male and 53.7% 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 Day 37 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 37 ended with 46 unaccounted-for animals.
Other statistics:
- Forage liberated to date: 21,696 AUMs per year
- Water liberated to date: 18,080 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 35.
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