Commentary by R.T. Fitch – Author of “Straight from the Horse’s Heart“
Frustration Mounts as Captive Wild Horses Continue to Die under the BLM’s Care
Captive Calico Mom and Baby - Photo by Elyse Gardner
The number of deaths continue to grow as the captured Calico Wild Horses slip away one by one; there has been a death every day for the past three days.
By their own reports the BLM states that a yearling male was “euthanized” due to poor condition from diarrhea and colic on the 6th. The 5th brought the death of a young male due to complications from the controversial gelding process and the 4th recorded the death of a yearling filly found “dead in her pen” from unknown causes. And the mares continue to foal, daily, in their crowded manure strewn pens with absolutely no protection from each other or the elements.
In total the catastrophic death toll stands as follows:
Fallon Facility 84
Round-up Site 7
Aborted Foals 39
TOTAL 130
It does not take many mental gymnastics to deduce that the recent deaths are exclusively the result of being held captive and the poor medical care being administered by the BLM’s unlicensed vet. These animals would still be ALIVE if they were left alone and free on their rightful land.
By Nevada state law the agents of the BLM and their contractors would be brought up on animal cruelty charges. If not for the fact that Fed trumps State we would have on our hands an animal cruelty seizure case bar none. If the BLM held themselves to the same laws and standards that they require of the public they would all be placing themselves in jail for “chasing, harassing and removing wild horses” from their federally “protected” preserves.
But the wild horse instrument of death and extinction, the BLM, runs without control, rule or logic. Their updated “gather” schedule has been released and they not only play with their own numbers but they plan on “Zeroing Out” as in totally destroying and forever removing from the face of the earth multiple herds.
-Bordo (NM) – field office doesn’t report this many horses in HMA
-Moriah – to be completely zeroed out as per BLM
-Winter Ridge- to be completely zeroed out (see IDA alert: https://secure2.convio.net/ida/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1482)
-West Douglas (CO) — this is the plan according to BLM despite Federal Judge’s ruling
-Twin Peaks (CA) — BLM reports that population of mustangs has doubled in two years and burros have increased by over 20%/year
We need, at the very least, a temporary moratorium on this madness and we need it now.
The BLM proves, even to itself, that it is a broken system and this is not the way to manage our native wild horses. We need real numbers, real facts and knowledgeable people to guide and direct the best way forward to ensure the future safety and welfare of our iconic wild herds. This insanity needs to cease and it must cease soon, before all of the horses are dying in pens and none roam free on their rightful lands.
We must stop this, now.
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Straight from the Horse's Heart 
The BLM has oversight of the Gulf oil spill that eventually will kill millions of ocean creatures. It also has oversight of our public lands and is desperately seeking energy there. Our Mustangs aren’t much more then land creatures that happen to be in the way. The BLM is not an animal management agency it’s a land management agency. Our Mustangs must be managed by a animal welfare agency that trumps land management with authority to enforce the 1971 mandate and law.
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your death numbers are the number BLM reported. need to add the dead mustang in the cattle guard and the ones they killed in the field during the helicoptor runnings, to the blm reported deaths.
How many mustangs was Cartoor paid for to round-up during the past 10 years? Take that number and subtract it from the adoptions and holding pen number and thats how many they really killed :(.
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Frank I am in total agreement with you. I cannot fathom that our WH&B will ever be safe from this large conflict of interest.
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Think of all the gathers and all the deaths the BLM listed–then think of how many more there really were. Mind-boggling and sickening.
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I really think the Fallon facility needs an intervention. I don’t understand why horses are not being treated, especially young foals and colts. As the heavy handed round ups are the only policy the BLM implements to manage our horses, it seems euthanasia is the only “treatment” the BLM vet does. I also need to know if the foal whose mother died has a surrogate or if they euthanized it. I am getting no answer out of John Neill. Sorry, but 2 people visiting for an hour on Sundays is just not cutting it.
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At the risk of sounding pathetic (which is by no means how I FEEL), what exactly can we do? Storming the Bastille will get us arrested, and give truth to the lie that we are EcoTerroists. Appealing to the BLM & it’s governing agency, with facts & science in hand, is falling on deaf ears. It seems any Comments issued to field offices from Advocates are summarily round-filed.
I have friends in Northeastern Nevada – NEVADA – who were unaware of the scope & devastation the Calico roundup caused; all they had heard or read about were the foals who were run until their hooves sloughed off.
We seem to be contained in a bubble and not much information is getting out past Advocates, our sympathizers and the Bureau. For us, this is a national disgrace, a continuing abuse of power for special interests with no consequences or accountability.
And no matter how ‘evil’ we may find the Bureau, there has to be at least one agent who finds this as reprehensible as we do.
We need a broader media outlet (Good Morning America obviously AIN’T it). We need partners within the Bureau, who will take seriously the science & data Field Advocates have gathered. We need something more because we have little patience left.
I want it all and I want it now.
(Ok! That feels better!)
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I know it feels like we are preaching to the choir but I can tell you that I know some really strong slaughter proponents and I was able to turn them around to our side. It’s slow but it’s coming. Too slow I agree
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“I have friends in Northeastern Nevada – NEVADA – who were unaware of the scope & devastation the Calico roundup caused; all they had heard or read about were the foals who were run until their hooves sloughed off.””
I agree most all the info over the past many years has been either filtered through the BLM (most all news stories) or sent to the BLM where we know they hate wild horse lovers and do anything they can to ignore them or deny access.
The pictures and one youtube Vid of those poor lame colts was really about the only PICTURE of BLM abuse that got to the public view. rest is all hidden on blogs the public just doesn’t read or see. There are not enough uncopyright pictures of BLM abuse for people to USE to post in public. Words are not enough to help the public to understand. we need to show the public with pictures how very bad the BLM is.
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Click the radio button on right column to learn more about “Herd Watch”
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Our hands are tied and our comments to the BLM fall on deaf ears. We must seek legislators willing to take our Mustangs away from the BLM and establish a Wild Horse agency (or wild life agency). We can effect elections. Our Mustangs must be managed by horse people not oil men.
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I totally agree, Frank. There should be a single agency responsible for the welfare of the Wild Ones and the land they occupy, with no obligations to livestock or mining interests, simply responsibility for the Equines and the ranges they occupy.
The Bureau has admitted they are stressed to the rafters with responsibility; they are not the Bureau of Wild Equine, Livestock or Wildlife Management. They are the Bureau of Land Management .There are agencies whose sole purpose is the welfare of wildlife or fish and game. There are agencies for national parks and forests. And I’ve been told there are agents in the Bureau who have tried to act on the Equines behalf, but it’s tough work, breaking traditions nearly a century old, and they get shut down.
The Wild Horse and Burro Act has been amended a few times, not to keep current with multiple use but to chip away at the original intent. A specialized agency could possibly prevent Herd Areas from being parceled away; in-house and on-the-range research, specific to a particular Herd Area, could determine the ACTUAL health of that range and eliminate a blanket round-up schedule, saving the Taxpayer a chunk o’ change. Familiarity with herds and bands is essential to determining exactly how to reduce a herd, if in fact that herd is in actual jeopardy and not just annoying the status quo. And it would cost us no more than the historical amount of money already allocated to the Bureau, an amount the Powers seem unwilling to account for in terms of Wild and Captive Wild management. Yes, it costs to keep Equines in holding facilities. But how, exactly, is the money spent for those still on the range? (No vetting, grooming, supplementary feeding or range repair as it benefits the Wild Ones. So where the Hell is it going??)
Forming a separate agency, however, would be about as easy as repealing the Mining Claim law. No one who benefits from current methods would want it.
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Sometimes, I wonder WHY these people hate these wild horses so much!!?? Or, maybe, it’s us, the wild horse (actually, ALL horses!), advocates? Are they doing this just because of greed, or, is it pure hate & determination for them to “win” no matter what, & do exactly the opposite of what we want?? It’s almost like the more we protest, make our voices heard, & fight for our cause, the faster they continue to round the horses up, &, not care how they suffer or die. How can they (BLM, & followers), hate & despise a creature so wild, free & beautiful??
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Part of it is greed, part of it is they have been operating like this for a long time, without much getting in their way, so they are used to doing what they are doing with little interference. So, all the attention focused on them was at first, dismissed as not ever going to amount to anything.People would get tired and go back to doing whatever it is they were doing; I think they expected the scrutiny of the Cloud roundup, I don’t think they were expecting it to continue and increase for the rest of their roundups. However, I do believe that as more Americans find out about this, they are getting more calls, emails, comments, etc; lawsuits are being filed and they have to deal with them, I want to see what happens with the West Douglas ruling, becuase I am tired of BLM acting as if they are above the law, if any of us who own animals treated our animals as they do these horses, we would be facing jail time, why are they allowed to continue to do this and have no ramifications for their total disregard for basic horse care???? that is one thing that is frustrating me,
They are still planning to let other offshore drilling start even after this total disastrous event in the Gulf, what Salazar and the present administration is thinking is beyond me. New reports from the workers who survived the blast and fire tell of warning systems that either failed or were turned off. A loophole in the law allowed BP to bypass having the equipment in place to deal with a total failure of the drill; AMericans need to understand what is going on with how OUR land, OUR horses, OUR wildlife and resources are being “managed.” All of this will affect our and all our children and grandchildren’s lives.
If BLM/DOI is overwhelmed by the “managing ” of the horses, then let them stop this madness and help us come up with an agency/entity that will have the wild horses’ welfare as a priority.
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I’ve always thought that it is because they are wild and free that the government hates these horses so much. Just like they try to squash us because we dare watch them and make them a focus–because we too are wild and free but they can’t gather us up so they take it out on those we love. The government just cannot tolerate anything wild and free–nothing can escape their power grasp and control. If they could only get the horses to stand in line and pay taxes then the gov’t would declare a victory–until that day the govt will continue to hate them and use them as a substitute for how much they hate us. Too bad get use to us we don’t quit.
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Reminds me of the “freedom” speech around the campfire in the movie Easy Rider.
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Well, R.T. add another death today, a yearling gelding, euthanized because of a fractured leg, why will they not alleviate the horrible overcrowding in these pens?
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This is so upsetting, with the BLM the quality of their management sucks.
Their rejection and downright emotional abuse of the public they deem, ‘troublemakers’ is very troubling. They have a 40 year history about the same, only thing different in their management over 40 years!! is the HMAs are much smaller and the BLM is not directly running them off cliffs or shooting them.
It may take a couple people riding their mustangs in big cities carrying a picture of dead wild horses in cattle guards or wrapped in barbed wire, to get noticed. To start changing before its to late.
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How much is the costs now with just this one group? seems like they could have taken each and every youngster and placed it with a private trainer, paid the private trainer the full fees for train and board.
By now for much less money had a nice healthy well trained, ready to ADOPT colt. Instead they spend gobs of money to give the wild horses- lesson after lesson in how humans scare you in all ways. Lessons in how to be a well trained slaughterhouse/feedlot horse.
Maybe Obama will dump Salazar over the oil mess and someone who cares about the horses will get in before it’s to late.
No wonder the BLM refuses to put up a cheap camera or 2..they are ashamed of the conditions.
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I too feel overwhelmed. I call, write & email, call write & email. Still, nothing! I have done this for several different issues I care about and never have I felt so overlooked and dismissed as a constituent and citizen, as I do when it comes to the horses, be it the mustangs or slaughter. There is a better way, but it seems they – the Gov’t – wants no part of hearing about it. I do know my vote holds power and I fully plan to unleash that power on election day. I also agree about the photos. Yes, they are heartbreaking, but that is what it is going to take for those outside the circle to actually see what is going on. More media and more education. My local stations won’t even look at the issue because it is “not of local importance.” But, I keep sending them info anyway in hopes that someone who has the same passion we do will decide it is news worthy. Until it is over – I continue on – for the horses!
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I think only 2 things can stop or slow down these round ups. A 60 Minutes/Frontline type of expose or individual lawsuits against each one of them. I think we need to go the Western Watersheds route and sue. They say the public comments have no impact whatsoever. Perhaps lawsuits as incessant as the round ups might get someone’s attention.
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2 good points, media and Federal lawsuits, but a Senator willing to propose legislation to take them from the BLM and place them in the care of horse people would seal the case. May be a lawsuit to do just that without erasing the 1971 Act just removing the BLM.
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hello; i think the pix of hte mares and the 3 foals lying in the hot desert sun is :pitiful…to leave sick Foals to literally “lie out in hot desert sun with no shade ; no milk bottle and OBVIOUSLY these LIL FOALS ARE TOO WEAK to stand up to nurse; SO WHY DOESN’T BLM FEED THEM BOTTLED MILK?
because the BLM doesn’t care how many foals perish; in fact they may be killing the foals purposely!
TO LEAVE A NEWBORN FOAL WHO CANNOT RISE TO NURSE IN THE HOT DESERT SUN; WHY THAT’S “ANIMAL CRUELTY PURE AND UNALTERATED ! (leave a live foal in the hot desert sun;
even the HSUS say the Mustangs have to shelter FROM THE RAIN; WIND AND HOT BLAZING SUN
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Do we know those foals are sick? I hadn’t heard that.
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no we don’t, the observers went out today, so I will be interested in hearing about what they found out there.
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hello? if you magnify the pix of the Colt in the foreground lying down in front of his her mother
you can see this foal has already perished; look at the foal’s mouth; all full of sand and stuff
the foal eyes are not even open and there are flies on the foal already; the other two are sick !
when a mustang lies down with their head at a lower level than the butt; this means they r sick
I ask you? have anyone ever seen newborn foals lying down in the sun and not nursing? anne
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ps in my opinion; the little foal in the foreground who’s Mother is lying over her protecting her: imo this little foal is “long gone; in other words this little foal “has died; you can tell by the foals mouth; if you magnify the pix of the foals lying in the hot desert sun placed there by the BLM; if you look at foals; mouth; you can see the foal has perished because teh foals mouth has already begun to Rot !
LIKE I SAY THE BLM LEAVES WEAK AND SICK MUSTANGS TO PERISH IN A HOT DESERT PEN ! @
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Anna, we are all entilted to our opinions, and I agree that the conditions in these pens are atrocious, but on what facts are you basing the judgement that the one foal in question is dead and the others are sick? Horses and babies especially do lay down in the sun, they bask in it same as we do; I don’t see any other evidence of illness or death. If the babies were sick, trying to remove them from their moms would not be an easy thing to do, I think it’s very important to stick to the facts when calling the BLM to task, unfounded accusations only cause more problems, I am relying on the observers who go out there every week, if the foals were sick and dying they would report it. I agree that foals are dying, but these pictures do not prove that, and in fact were not identified as that. They are a witness to the dirty pens, and overcrowded conditions in which these mares have to give birth, the foals have to lay in, and the mamas then have to try and defend their babies from other mares, who are equally protective of their foals.
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Hi Jan: I see you doubt your own eyes which is too bad for example have you truly ever seen a “new born foal they bask in it same as we do; basking in the desert sun; surely you do not think those foals are “sunning themselves; I can tell by their posture; when a mustangs head goes way down;
that’s a very bad sign; JUST ONE HOUR OF HOT SUN ON A WEAK FOAL LIKE THAT @ 90 degrees would surely kill the foal; if you don’t see that I do not know what to say; even the HSUS said THE MUSTANGS MUST HAVE SHADE FROM THE DESERT SUN OF FALLON NEVADA ! case in point:
I have looked at 500 pix of new born foals; AND NONE; NOT A ONE; LOOKED LIKE THOSE FOALS !
Jan DO YOU SEE THOSE FOALS NURSING ? NO ! A Foal must nurse in 12 -24 hours of birth or if not the Foal must be given Milk bottle; and 2. DO YOU SEE ANY MILK BOTTLES NEAR THE FOALS?
Tell me truly; have you ever seen Mares give birth in sand pits and not bring them to shade? NEVER!
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Anna, I actually have raised foals, my neighbor has 6-7 foals a year, so yes, i ahve actually seen real, live foals laying in the sun, so like I said, I am relying on the observers’ reports to base my reactions on, foals don’t need to nurse 24/7, by just the pictures, there is no way to know whether or not these foals are unable to get up to nurse or not, they aresn’t struggling, they are laying flat, my horses lay just like this on sunny days, do they stay that way all day, no, but they do lie down in the sun.
I am not denying that the conditions these babies live in are horrible, they should be out in the mountains, not shut up in dirty, overcrowded pens,
why should there be bottles of milk laying around??? if they can’t nurse, which nothing in these pictures suggests, then they would need to be removed from their moms and bottle fed in another location, there is no way those wild mommas are going to let a human walk up to their babies and try to stick a bottle in their mouths.
Since the observers were scheduled to go out today, I will be very interested in seeing their updated pictures and reading their reports.
Forecast for Fallon this week are high’s in the 60’s, so there is not a forecast of intense heat right now. Should there be some sort of shelters from the wind and sun? of course, but that’s not going to happen.
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They look like they are resting in the sun to me. Not much else to do at Fallon.
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savewildhorses: I agree, this photo was taken by Elyse gardner, I believe she would have stated that the foals were sick /dying in her report. I think this is to show the conditions these mares/foals are living in. I hope someone who was there today can find out the information on the orphan for you,
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Elyse Gardner has a great Mother’s Day slide show on her Humane Observer’s blog : http://humaneobserver.blogspot.com/2010/05/tribute-to-mustang-mothers-happy.html
This little guy is very much alive as you’ll see in the pictures. Beautiful show.
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The BLM’s name should be changed to reflect what they really are. The Bureau of Liars and Murderer’s. They operate without interference from anyone and as long as their tactics are not questioned by anyone with some backbone and substance to enforce the Wild Horse Act as it was meant in the first place I fear nothing will change and it is our American Icons, the wild horses and burros who will contine to pay the price.
A very sad state of affairs indeed……
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I would definitley second the liars part and they do “intentionally harm mustangs left and right; even youngun’s for example a perfect example of a lie by the BLM is what John Neil said about Trooper;
the foal’s who’s mum was “shot for no good reason by the blm @ the gather site; after that blm said: OH THAT FOAL? that foal didn’t have a mother…he’s an orphan; he has been eating GRASS since the foal was one day old!; you can tell by his body condtion; the mare we shot was not the mother ! lol
(not a direct quote; when I find the quote i will post….)
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Jan wrote: I am relying on the observers who go out there every week, if the foals were sick and dying they would report it. I agree that foals are dying…
so what makes YOU think the foals are dying then: I think they are dying because they look like it !
ps the point of the pix is: the pix does report they are sick; just look @ ’em;
jan do you have ANY idea how much hotter sand is than regular dirt or pasture? about 20 degrees !
if you do not recall; try walking down a hot sandy beach on a hot sunny day barefoot; get back to me !
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Because I believe the people who actually go out there ans see what is happening, if they say there are foals dying who are not being rported by BLM, then I believe tham, however, I don’t believe that the foals in the pictures you are citing are dead, dying or ill. This is based on my experience with foals.
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the foals are in dire need of resuce and attention; anyone can see this contact your congresspersons
thanks a lot anne usa 1951 “just a nobody from nowhere tryin’ to save our wild places and wildlife ! @
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To the Fallon Visitors this week: Can you please find out what has happened to the orphaned foal whose mother died shortly after birth? Was the foal euthanized, adopted by another nursing mare, given to a rescue organization? PLEASE can you report on this? Thanks.
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I fyou are talking about the original “orphaned” foal, she was adopted by an associate of Willis Lamm on Feb 6th and was removed to her new home that day.
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No, this one was just born last week and the mother died from complications. Foal survived. I noticed in many photos one mare has 2 foals following her and was wondering if this is the orphan and if she has accepted it as her own. I really need to know this for my own heart. I fear the BLM may have euthanized the foal just because it’s mother died.
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pardon the interruption and my lack of puncuation…
and forgive me for not properly id’ing the source–but there is a line from the movie TOPGUN that says
“you don’t own that plane, the taxpayers do. son your ego is writing checks your body can’t cash”.
i think that about sums up the BLM.
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website on the latest update on the lawsuit to return these horses to their homes.
http://www.thedesertinde.com/Wild-Horse-Lawsuit-Update-0506.html
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http://www.thedesertinde.com/Wild-Horse-Lawsuit-Update–0506.html
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the reason I think the foals are sick is because they are in the exact same posture as Hope the Foal!
when a foal does not even lift his or her head to see the humane observers with cameras…
this is avery bad sign; sure mustangs lie down; but then they get up again; I do not see these foals getting up to nurse; if they do not nurse they have to be given a bottle ; you can give a bottle to a sick foal; the mother is not going to stop you; these are not dangerous animals these are wild msutangs
ps the foal in the foregroudn being protected by the mother “has died ! just magnify the pix ! she gone!SEE YOU WILL NEVER KNOW AND I WILL NEVER KNOW WHY; BLM DOES NOT COUNT FOALS AS BEING LIVING MUSTANGS UNDER THE AGE OF 4; SCORES MAY HAVE PERISHED ALREADY! IMO
ps I base my observations on clinical signs of malnutriton and nutritional deficineies; postures; etc.
I HOPE I AM WRONG ! i hope the foals are alive; but those look sick (to me ! they are not nursing at all
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ps correction that should be the BLM does not count foals under the age of 4 months! too bad for them; there is a way to find out though; the freedom of information act could get a copy of :
How many mustangs has the BLM NV “trucked over to the rendering plant in Fallon; including Foals!
90 Mustnags have been trucked to the rendering plant not inclduing foals; or miscarriages; SICKOS
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Anna ~ where did you get the info that “90 Mustnags have been trucked to the rendering plant not inclduing foals; or miscarriages”? There are all kinds of rumors flying around, and we need solid evidence that what we report is true and can be documented.
If you don’t have solid evidence – not “he said, she said” – you’re doing more harm than good. I’m not trying to be argumentative, but spreading of wild, unfounded rumors is what the anti-horse forces point to when trying to convince the public that advocates are over emotional and don’t know what they’re talking about.
So, please, where did you get the info that 90 horses have been trucked to the rendering plant?
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Suzanne, thanks for this, I thought I ws overreacting to these kind of unsubstantiated comments, we must come with the evidence if we want to be taken seriously, otherwise , we just look like people who don’t know what we’re talking about. And that doesn’t help the horses.
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i got the info from the blm website; that is where i get most of my info and from humane observers; thought; maybe Elyse did not know the Foal was sick; but I know it is; believe me
I just remagnified the pix of the foal in foregroudn; the foal’s mouth is full of sand and stuff !
see the point I am making over all is:
The BLM does not give the Mustangs; of any age of any gender Proper Nutrition; so they get sick from Malnutrition and the summary of my theory is:
The Foals and miscarriages occured due to MALNUTRITON; caused by feeding scant Hay !
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Anna, yes I have seen foals lay in the sun and not nurse, foals don’t nurse 24/7, there is a new slideshow on Laura’s Arts and Horses website, from yesterday at Fallon, all of moms and babies, please look at it, if the foal in question was dead, I think ELyse Gardner would have mentioned that fact when she published the picture.
From what I have heard of the viewing process out there, if the observers want to see ALL the horses, they move quickly through the pens, HOWEVER, had they had ANY concerns over the well-being of this foal, they would have asked about it. They spent a while with Legacy, the colt who was in pain following gelding,and in the videos on Elyse’s site, they are questioning someone about his condition. I trust them to make sure of how these horses are doing.
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I hope Legacy is alright; this is my prayer however I also read this debatable statement on the BLMsite
The Mustangs are not fed any Hay for 24 hours prior to the Gelding…
so my point about Legacy is: if the Mustang Legacy was “fasting” for 24 hours PRIOR to the gelding
and if AFTER the Gelding the young gelding could not stand up to hobble to the Hay feeders;
then Legacy could have lay there for hours in the hot sun WITH NO HAY; where is the Hay is my beef!
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funny tho; and I am not aguring or disclaiming your claim that foals do rest and lie in the sun…however
of all the pix I have looked at of mares and foals of ANY type; or any age of any condition;
none of the foals I have seen are lying out in that Posture; flat out on the sand like that;
and so the pix surprised me to see 2 foals lying flat out….not even being attended to by their mares!
its’ Highly unusual…thanks for the reply; I hope I am wrong ! I am trying to stop another roundup; fyi. a.
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BLM has a NEW DOI Youtube channel up and a NEW wild horse round-up vid. needs reasonable questions and comments. here is the URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXT2LBgh02k
check the channel vids aswell, they have many DOI vids re-mining,land use ect. all need comments before they shut off comments.
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I post again about the NEW youtube vids.. in adition that new channel has a calico round-up vid that had a camera behind your group. they also have a long term holding Vid that shows several facilities. my question on that Vid was why is there no freezebrand or ID on any of the long term horses and how do they keep track of each single horse without ID?
heres the calico one on this channel AND I see some horses in this one first day at fallon and those horses look in GREAT condition. could be some interesting before/after shots here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jevPMkS8aMY&feature=channel
here’s the long term holding one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnU4g6WKbFo&feature=PlayList&p=5486F2E667230A7B&playnext_from=PL
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The long term holding facility one is on the BLM main website, in an attempt to appease all of us who are questioning what is happening to the LTH horses.
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Hi I got the info about the 92 mustangs who have Perished at the hands of the BLM from the BLM websites; what do you think they have done with the 85 (BLM website) mustangs who have perished
they truck them over to the Fallon rendering plant located near the Fallon Corrals; and IF I am not correct…then what did happen to the “carcasses of the 85 Mustangs who have perished @ Fallon?
reply requested; Anna summary: what do YOU think the BLM does with the “carcasses of the stangs
if they are not at the rendering plant then where are they ? I understand the rendering plant is Fallon; the town of Fallon Nevada; called “The lonliest Hiway in the nation; its a desert; a hideaway; a sandlot
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If you’re talking about horses that are already dead, yeah, they could be taking them to the rendering plant. As you say, what else can they do?
However, rendering plants also take live horses. That’s what I thought you were talking about since you were so upset about it. I’m sure they do take the dead ones to the rendering plant. Again, as you said, what else is there to do?
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Anyone who has concerns over the health of the foals/Legacy, please go to Elyse Gardner’s new post on the HUmane Observer blog, she has weekend pictures of the foals at fallon, including the 2 in the picture that caused some concern because of how flat they were laying, also, there is mention of an orphaned foal that WAS accepeted by another mare, who is already nursing one of her own, Savewildhorses, this may be the baby you were wondering about, as it appears to be in that time frame of age. ANy way, the “orphan” is now with a “mom” and seems to be doing ok, Legacy too looks better. beautiful mothers day tribute by Elyse!
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BORDO WILD HORSES NEED OUR HELP!!!
The Bordo Altravesado HMA is one of only two extremely small BLM HMAs in New Mexico. Soon there may be none.
COMMENTS DUE THIS FRIDAY, May 14th. I’m still working on mine, and I’m hoping to send them by Thursday.
This is the link to the EA:
Click to access DOI-BLM-NM-A020-2010-07-EA.pdf
Please email your comments to: NM_Bordo_EA@blm.gov
I contacted Carlos LoPopolo of Wild Horses of the West requesting any information he had on the BLM action. This was his response:
“Their plans are to “zero out” that wild horse management area. In fact, they want to “zero out” all of New Mexico’s wild horse management areas. That is why I’m trying to set up preserves on private land that they can’t stop. My southern preserve is to the west of the Socorro management area.
“As far as wild horses go, your lucky if you have 40 wilds. You do have many ranch horses that the ranchers let loose when it comes count time. I believe the ratio of cattle to wild horses on the Wild horse management area is 51 head of cattle to 1 wild horse.
“What you have to realize down here in the Socorro area BLM it’s an “old boys club.” It’s been that way for fifty years. This is a place where they reimburse you for the bullets you used to kill the mustangs. The shame of it is that it’s the same all over the west. The BLM does not manage the wild horses for continuation. It is managing the wild horses for extinction.
“My horses are from all over the west, not just New Mexico. My plans are for 10 preserves totaling 250,000 acres, four in New Mexico and at least one in every surrounding state. Right now, I run approximately 180 head on 33,000 acres.
“You should be aware of the fact that those who claim to have old Spanish mustangs and are breeding and selling them have a problem with my preserves, because of our DNA testing and our scientific approach. They have fought me tooth and nail for ten years. Even though I don’t sell or adopt any of my horses, they still feel I’m a threat somehow.”
I encourage you to visit the Wild Horse of the West website for additional information on what I believe is a vitally important effort to preserve the Old Spanish Mustang bloodlines.
http://www.wildhorsesofthewestartgallery.com/index.cfm
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RE: Bordo Altravesado EA Comments – Due Friday
Most of you have probably read this, but evidently I didn’t post it here. I’m not including ANYTHING from the emails sent by Carlos LoPopolo of Wild Horses of the West, since I can’t confirm some important information on his program.
Ginger has written a really great letter with a number of talking points you might want to be aware of before submitting your comments. Also, the CF link to the EA works. Others, including the one I put up, have been giving folks trouble.
http://thecloudfoundation.wordpress.com:80/2010/05/12/bordo-atravesado-removal-comments-due-friday/
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the blm is the bureau of liars and murderers. this agency needs total shut doe rwn. it does not belong in america. it works only for rich cattle ranchers where it leases out land owned by national citizens to rich cattle ranchers for $5.00 an acre peryear. those cheap rates allow cattle ranchers to make really high profits.it is time to throw the rich cattleranchers off the land. that land is for wild horses. americans have written millions upon millionsofletters to tell this agency to save thesehorses. we have a totally nonresponsive government we didnt know this is what we would get with obama, who appointed very bad appointees like salazar, who should be fired.
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i agree but i think we could do maor to stop it what some one needs to do is make a rally. we need to mack people aware of thise. set posts up on face book and my space email this websit to your frends if we dont do sumthing besides siting around and riting leters to people thiss wont stop
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