Source: FoxReno.com
“They are in an unnatural situation in pens…”
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With record highs shining into the Fourth of July weekend, everyone is finding a way to beat the heat, even wild horses.
The Palomino Valley Wild Horse and Burro Center is the Bureau of Land Management’s Short Term Holding Facility, occupied by overpopulated wild range horses up for adoption.
This week’s one hundred plus degree temperatures reign over the centers eighteen hundred and fifty occupants, leaving Assistant Facility Manager Jeb Beck no choice but to provide them some relief.
“There’s something new and foreign in their pen,” says Beck. “They are curious, we just didn’t know if they would destroy it, if they would utilize it, so far it seems to be working pretty good.”
On Friday, Beck installed eight fine mist spray sprinklers throughout the pens via public suggestions and says it is a quick, cost efficient solution to keeping the horses cool.
The Water comes from the centers two stock wells and the BLM is using the sprinklers as a trial run to see how the horses react to and utilize the resource.
“We’ve never experienced any problems with the heat and whatnot,” says Beck. “Because of the publicity it’s getting, we wanted to make a proactive step and try suggestions that were brought to us.”
Animal Rights Activist Henry Kimbell says the horses need a shade source in their pens, an environment they could have trouble adapting to because it doesn’t replicate the open country.
“It is a good thing in the sense that it is an acknowledgement that there is an issue but it really doesn’t address the problem,” says Kimbell.
He says putting the sprinkler systems in is last minute and driven by pressures put on the BLM from public feedback.
“They are in an unnatural situation in pens,” says Kimbell. “They can’t engage in survival strategies that they would engage in in the wild, seeking shade for example or cooler places.”
They sprinklers could result in a semi-permanent system during the spring and summer months, but still requires some logistical planning as no water piping exist above ground and to all pens.
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Categories: Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Tried to comment on the BLM water articles. I’m having a senior moment, can’t figure it out???? Anyway…. the BLM had a GREAT idea for a change. Our horse’s love the sprinklers, plus the mud that goes with it. They get cooled off, have a good roll and moisten their hooves. It doesn’t take ANY horse long to figure out how to best utilize a new situation and in this heat…. “rain” is wonderful!! Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:36:11 +0000
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I completely agree. I always put on the sprinklers/misters when the temp gets over 100 so every horse gets a chance to cool off. They figure it out immediately and it does work. At least the BLM tried SOMETHING even if it took public pressure and not just common horse sense!
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Ridgecrest holding facility already has some safe and efficient shade structures and has a bid out for more. NO word of any shade structures even requested by Palomino Valley or Litchfield or Broken Arrow or any other facility. This shows a photo of the Ridgecrest shade structures.
http://protectmustangs.org/?p=4651
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PS No shade structures even requested per fedbizops.
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Wow, that’s one ritzy shade structure, and it looks plenty big enough. I hope the PVC folks will see it and demand to have one for “their” (well, really “our” — well, really “the good Lord’s”) horses, too.
@Denise below — you are TOO funny. MIS is definitely a deadly syndrome!
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Yes if Ridgecrest holding facility can do it so can PVC,. So what are the reasons they are not and why is it taking them so long? They are not even coming out and saying they would even consider it . Fustratating for us but deathly for the wild ones .
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Moronicus Inchargacis syndrome….every BLM fiefdom is different person in charge with no leadership or instructions from a$$wipes like Guilfoyle and new Sec of Interior (name escapes me)…..ahhh! Jewell!
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Tough times (well, all the time actually) demand MacGyver-like creative problem solving, not bureaucratic excuses. The NAS said ‘no more roundups, so repurpose the d*** burlap used in the roundup chutes to build some filtered, shade awnings. A seventh grade level science class could probably figure this out in no time. We should expect no less and deserve a lot more ingenuity and action than we’re getting from the professionals paid by our tex dollars.
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