The incident started on November 2. Results through November 6:
- Scope: Triple B Complex
- Target: Wild horses
- AML: 889
- Pre-gather population: 3,335
- True AML: 4,551
- Type: Planned
- Method: Helicopter
- Category: Cruel and costly (according to advocates)
- Better way: Sterilize mares with PZP (according to advocates)
- Capture goal: 2,255
- Removal goal: 2,155
- Captured: 319, up from 243 on Day 3
- Shipped: 246, up from 165 on Day 3
- Released: None
- Deaths: 3, up from 1 on Day 3
- Average daily take: 63.8
- Unaccounted-for animals: 70
- Snippet from statute: It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death
- Snippet from manual: To protect wild horses and burros from unauthorized capture, branding, harassment or death
The figures above are based on the daily reports.
The Day 3 report still shows 122 horses shipped but the breakdown yields 120.
A stallion and mare were put down on Day 5 due to blindness in one eye, lifting the death rate to 0.9%.
The capture total includes 113 stallions, 137 mares and 69 foals.
Youngsters represented 21.6% of the animals gathered.
Of the adults, 45.2% were male and 54.8% were female.
Body condition scores were not given.
The location of the trap site was not disclosed.
Three HMAs are affected.
Up to 50 mares will be treated with GonaCon Equine and released back to the range with up to 50 stallions.
The number of doses and the interval between treatments were not specified, leaving open the possibility that the Complex becomes another GonaCon crime scene.
The roundup supports three tenets of rangeland management.
RELATED: Triple B Roundup, Day 3.
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