Lake Pleasant Roundup Comes and Goes, No Announcement

The incident concluded on May 2 with 460 burros captured, 457 shipped, none returned and three dead.

There were no unaccounted-for animals.

The start date was April 15, one week later than scheduled.

The capture and removal goals were 400 each but a 15% increase was authorized.

The capture total included 187 jacks, 240 jennies and 33 foals.

Foals represented 7.2% of the animals gathered.

Of the adults, 43.8% were male and 56.2% were female.

The death rate was 0.7%.

There were no plans to treat any of the jennies with fertility control pesticides and return them to the HMA.

Animals identified for removal were taken to the Florence off-range corrals.

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