The incident began on July 9. Results through August 16:
- 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: 1,870, up from 1,813 on Day 37
- Average daily take: 47.9
- Capture goal: 2,000
- Removal goal: 2,000
- Returned: 5, no change from Day 37
- Deaths: 26, up from 23 on Day 37
- Shipped: 1,781, up from 1,739 on Day 37
The figures above are based on the daily reports, not the totals posted by the BLM.
The sidebar on the gather page says the number of horses captured is 1,876 and the number shipped is 1,783.
Blindness in one eye was reported as a death on Day 38.
On Day 39, low body condition and club feet were reported as deaths.
These horses survived the chase and would be alive today if there was no roundup.
The death rate is 1.4%.
The capture total includes 728 stallions, 851 mares and 291 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 38 and 39 ranged from 2 to 4.
They’re not starving but a few may be struggling. Not unusual for mares with foals.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
The HMAs and surrounding lands are subject to permitted grazing.
*According to advocates.
Day 39 ended with 58 unaccounted-for animals.
Other statistics:
- Forage liberated to date: 22,380 AUMs per year
- Water liberated to date: 18,650 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 37.
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