Chincoteague Ponies: Cash Cows of Assateague Island

No response yet from the Chincoteague Fire Company on the number of adult males and females on the island.

The herd would need at least 100 females to produce 100 foals.

That leaves 50 males out of a herd of 150, the maximum number of ponies allowed by FWS, for a sex ratio two mares for each stallion.

Abnormal sex ratios are usually seen in herds treated with PZP, a byproduct of the effort to sterilize the mares, but in the case of the Chincoteague herd, it’s probably intentional.

Miracles and Wonders on Assateague Island

How could a herd of 150 adults, on the Virginia side of the island, produce 100 foals?

Fifty stallions covering 100 mares with a 100% success rate?

Twenty-five stallions covering 125 mares with an 80% success rate?

Have the saltwater cowboys been skewing the sex ratio in favor of females?

All six of this year’s buy backs are fillies according to the auction results.

Ka-ching, ka-ching.

Foals are hard to find on the Maryland side because the mares have been ruined by PZP.

Foal-Free Friday, Irony and Hypocrisy Edition

While some folks talk about humane disposal of wild horses, the advocates deliver, referring to the practice as humane management or in-the-wild management.

Those are codewords for mass sterilization with PZP.

Ironically, the most vocal proponent of the method, who accused the BLM of the largest attempted eradication of wild horses, convinced an appeals court to halt the plan, snatching the title for itself.

Beware of the wild horse advocates.

Narratives, Collusion Drive Wild Horse Reporting

The unspoken word in news circles, apparently, is if you’re doing a story about wild horses, go to the Bureau of Livestock Multiplication and the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses for comments.

Even Google—an appendage of the Democrat Party—is in on it.

Think of it as JournoList for wild horses.

Those who try to expose the deceit are censored.

Exhibit #1, a report by KRNV News on the Lahontan Management Plan, featuring the genetic diversity narrative and overpopulation narrative.

The first interview is with Tracy Wilson, defeatist, pesticide pusher and overseer of the largest attempted wild horse eradication in Nevada, who argues that the AML is too small to support genetic diversity and should be at least 150.

Unfortunately, herd size is poor indicator of genetic viability. Breeding population is more important. An AML of 500 would be too small if you’re poisoning the mares with PZP, the raison d’être of CAAWH.

Next, the camera turns to Holley Kline of the BLM who says there are far more wild horses than the land can support, which is misleading.

There are more wild horses than allowed by plan and they’re robbing forage from high net worth individuals who receive generous government benefits with no means testing.

Exhibit #2, a report by KLAS News on FY26 appropriations affecting wild horses, featuring the fertility control narrative.

Suzanne Roy, Wilson’s boss, said the BLM should “make humane management—not removals—the foundation of its program,” implying that fertility control is not removal, even though wild horse numbers go down as the advocates pummel the mares with pesticide-laced darts.

Impact of Court Order on Rock Springs Roundups?

They may go on as scheduled due to overpopulation but the AMLs would revert to their previous values so the capture and removal goals should go down.

Adobe Town: 536 → 800
Divide Basin: 0 → 600
Salt Wells Creek: 0 → 365

The number of horses removed could be reduced by 1,229.

The title of largest attempted eradication of wild horses would shift to the advocates at the Salt River and Virginia Range.

Largest Attempted Eradication of Wild Horses?

The demoting of two HMAs in Wyoming and the downsizing of a third might win the prize in the motorized removal category but the plan was halted by an appeals court decision on July 15.

In the nonmotorized category, the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group and the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses take the prize for their mass sterilization programs at the Salt River and Virginia Range, affecting over 3,500 wild horses.

So, for now, those who accuse the federal government of the largest attempted eradication of wild horses are guilty of it themselves.

Why are you still giving them money?

How Is the Lahontan HMA Like the Salt River?

You can count the breeding populations on one hand.

The bureaucrats allow seven to ten wild horses in the HMA.

At the Salt River, the advocates have ruined most of the mares with PZP.

Those with faulty immune systems may still be able to bear fruit.

Advocates Grooming Youngsters to Be Pesticide Pushers?

Protecting the public-lands ranchers is a top priority of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses and its affiliates, even if it means leading the young folks astray.

Now is a great time to be in the millstone business.

Like Clockwork, Advocates Praise Helicopter Ban

They knew it was coming. They’ve been involved in it from the beginning.

What do you call it when your political allies submit legislation that orders the government to procure services you provide?

Helicopter Ban Rises from Ashes

The co-chair of the House Pesticide Caucus has reintroduced a bill that would stop the roundups but not the removals according to a report by KLAS News.

Predictably, the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in mass sterilization and fierce opponent of principal use, endorsed it.

Originally known as the Save a Horse, Hire a Cowboy Act, the bill supports three tenets of rangeland management, forcing a change in methods but not the goals.

It will likely go nowhere in a Republican-controlled Congress.