East Pershing Roundup, Day 5

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The incident began on December 28.  Results through January 1:

Three stallions and one mare were dispatched on Day 4 due to blindness in one eye, a non-life-threatening condition.

The death rate is 1.3%.

The capture total includes 260 stallions, 302 mares and 43 foals.

Youngsters represented 7.1% of the animals gathered, consistent with a herd growth rate of one to two percent per year.

Of the adults, 46.3% were male and 53.7% were female, no indication of an abnormal sex ratio.

Body condition scores averaged 3 on Days 4 and 5.

The location of the trap site was not given.

The Complex is managed primarily for animal agriculture.  The National Data Viewer shows habitat loss and grazing allotments.  Click on image to open in new tab.

*According to advocates.

East Pershing Complex with Allotments 12-30-23

Day 5 ended with 199 unaccounted-for animals.

There are no plans to treat any of the captured mares with fertility control pesticides and return them to the range.

Other statistics:

  • Forage liberated to date: 7,260 AUMs per year
  • Water liberated to date: 6,050 gallons per day
  • Horses allowed by plan: 555
  • Pre-gather population: 3,375
  • Forage assigned to horses: 6,660 AUMs per year
  • Forage assigned to livestock: Not determined
  • Horses displaced from Complex by permitted grazing: Not determined
  • True AML: Not determined
  • Stocking rate at new AML: Not determined
  • Horses displaced by drilling and mining: Ask the advocates

Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not necessarily more horses than the land can support.

The ability of the Complex to sustain wild horses has been severely limited by the bureaucrats, who have assigned most of their food to the public-lands ranchers.

RELATED: East Pershing Roundup, Day 3.

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