The incident began on July 9. Results through August 18:
- 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: 1,914, up from 1,870 on Day 39
- Average daily take: 46.7
- Capture goal: 2,000
- Removal goal: 2,000
- Returned: 5, no change from Day 39
- Deaths: 27, up from 26 on Day 39
- Shipped: 1,824, up from 1,781 on Day 39
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 1,920 and the number shipped is 1,826.
A case of missing teeth was reported as a death on Day 41.
The death rate is 1.4%.
The capture total includes 751 stallions, 867 mares and 296 foals.
Youngsters represented 15.5% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 46.4% were male and 53.6% 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 40 and 41 ranged from 2 to 4.
They’re not starving but a few may be struggling. Not unusual for older horses or 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 41 ended with 58 unaccounted-for animals.
Other statistics:
- Forage liberated to date: 22,908 AUMs per year
- Water liberated to date: 19,090 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 39.
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