Indian Lakes Off-Range Corrals Open to Public on May 31

Participants will be escorted by wagon according to today’s announcement.

Registration is required and tours are limited to 20 persons each.

The privately owned facility has a capacity of 7,600 animals and the population as of January 11 was 3,804 wild horses and one wild burro.

The corrals support three tenets of rangeland management.

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Tour of Gray Horse ORP Set for June 22

The privately owned ranch covers approximately 26,000 acres of grassland in northeastern Oklahoma according to yesterday’s news release.

The January Facility Report shows two pastures, Gray Horse East, with a capacity of 1,735 mares, and Gray Horse West with a capacity of 1,015 geldings.

The populations as of January 1 were 1,783 mares and 775 geldings.

These animals were removed from public lands in the western U.S. and sent here to die not because of inadequate resources but because the bureaucrats have assigned most of their food to privately owned livestock.

Thus, the facility plays an important role in achieving and maintaining AMLs, sometimes referred to as ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses.

RELATED: BLM to Extend Gray Horse ORP Contract?

Price of Hay Defies Gravity

The feed store collected $34 per bale today for alfalfa-grass mix, 20 bales minimum, no change from December.

The single-bale price was $35.

Three years ago the price was $19.

A horse would need around five bales per month, putting the cost at $170 per AUM.

At that rate, you’ll burn through your $1,000 adoption incentive in six months.

Ranchers pay $1.35 per AUM on public lands.

RELATED: Price of Hay Unchanged, Still Too High.

Price of Hay Unchanged, Still Too High

A bale of alfalfa-grass mix sold for $34 yesterday, 20 bales minimum, no change from last month.

The single-bale price was $35.

Although it’s off its high of $36 per bale earlier this year, it’s up 79% from the summer of 2021, when Bidenomics was unleashed on the American people.

An average horse would need around five bales per month, putting the cost at $170 per AUM.

The poor ranchers, forced to live in multi-million-dollar base properties, pay $1.35 per AUM to access forage on public lands.

Curiously, a headline today on Drudge says “Animal shelters across USA overflowing.”

RELATED: Cost of Hay Dropped Slightly!

Cost of Hay Dropped Slightly!

The price of a bale of alfalfa-grass mix on August 5 was $34, twenty bales minimum, compared to $36 in July.

But it’s still up 79% since July 2021, before Bidenomics, when the price was $19.

The single-bale price was $35.

The average horse would need five bales per month, putting the cost at $170 per AUM.

The poor ranchers, with their multi-million-dollar base properties, are forced to pay $1.35 per AUM.

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BLM Reviewing Data Collection Requirements for WHB Adoption

An announcement dated July 19 in the Federal Register seeks public input on new, proposed, revised and continuing collections of information from those who wish to adopt, purchase, foster or train wild horses or burros.

The agency collects information from individuals to determine (1) if applicants are qualified to adopt or purchase wild horses and burros, (2) whether or not to authorize an adopter or purchaser to maintain more than four wild horses and burros, (3) whether or not to grant requests for replacement animals or refunds, and (4) whether or not to terminate a private maintenance and care agreement.

Your remarks should address these issues:

  • Whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency and whether the information will have practical utility
  • The accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the burden of information collection, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used
  • Ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be collected
  • How to minimize the burden of information collection on those who are to respond, including the use of automated, electronic, mechanical or other forms of technology

Written and electronic comments will be accepted through September 18.

Do Wild Horses Eat More Than Domestic Horses?

Your host buys twenty bales of alfalfa-grass mix every four weeks, allocated as follows:

  • Seven bales for two domestic horses
  • Thirteen bales for three adopted horses

The domestic horses consume 3.5 bales each over the four-week period.

The adopted horses consume 4.3 bales each during the same period.

This has been the pattern for several years.

Experience indicates that wild horses need about 25% more hay than domestic horses, which means they poop more than domestic horses.

These guys also receive grain in the evening, hay is not the only component in their diet.

They are not ridden or expected to do any work.

Call them pets if you’d like.

RELATED: No Relief in Cost of Feed.

In-Person Adoptions Suspended at Wheatland Corrals

Low placement rates, compared those of online adoptions, prompted the change, according to a news release dated June 8.

The feedlot covers 200 acres in southeastern Wyoming and can house up to 3,500 wild horses and burros, while privately owned cattle and sheep are dispersed at much lower rates on lands set aside for the horses and burros.

There’s nothing in the statute that says AMLs must be small relative to the available resources.

They could correspond to 100% of the authorized forage, neglecting the small amounts assigned to wildlife.

But the government chooses to manage HMAs primarily for livestock, and that’s why there are almost as many wild horses and burros in off-range holding as on the range.

The advocates, defeated a long time ago, snuff out new life with their fertility control pesticides, giving the ranchers exactly what they want.

They are buffoons, no longer deserving of your financial support.

RELATED: Adoptions Resume at Wheatland Off-Range Corrals.

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