Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Mustangs

I've been to MANY wild horse 'facilities', 'adoptions', round-ups,
'sanctuaries', ridden by bands on desert rides and had 'em come into my camp
when horsecamping -- the Ramhorn BLM camp north of Susanville off 395 is
completely fenced to keep wild horses OUT.

Anyway, long story short and one solution that a lot of BLM management feel
is the "only solution to maintaining bands" is to shoot all males.
Everything male from foals, to yearlings to stallions.  Get rid of all male
horses for one year.  The following year's foal crop would be on the ground
to start rebreeding in another year.  A two-year span basically of no new
breeding.  Mare bands will reform, regroup thus eliminating inbreeding.

But the public would be out hanging anyone who suggested that.....

Bonnie Davis


----- Original Message -----
From: "Zephyr Arabians" <z_arabs@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] Mustangs


>
> --- oddfarm <jsalas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I still don't understand how we can gather herds,
> > test for EIA and WNV, file feet, vaccinate and worm,
> > but you say that birth control hasn't worked? Why
> > the heck not?? If we can hold them to draw blood and
> > give a shot, it would be just as easy to do a quick
> > slice.  OUCH! Why would any one waste money on the
> > "patch" for the mares? I don't get that one.
>
> It only takes ONE stallion per herd to get all the
> mares pregnant.  Gelding would make little to no
> difference in the number of foals produced.  It
> basically has to be the mares that are sterilized,
> whether temporarily or permanently.
>
> Actually, I think another option might be to give some
> of the lead stallions a "vasectomy" type operation.
> Let them continue to breed but not sire any foals.
> Not sure what that would do to the herds though.  Just
> as the "imported" stallions didn't survive.  Would
> this sort of thing just eliminate the strongest
> stallions, and actually damage the herds?  I don't
> know.  Just theorizing off the top of my head. :)
>
> ~Nicole
>
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