Tag: foals

25 foals die at BLM’s Litchfield Corrals in CA, BLM states likely cause is colitis

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Healthy foals with their moms in Devil’s Garden Wild Horse Territory For more info on what causes colitis in foals, read HERE. SOURCE:  BLM News Release For Immediate Release: Oct. 17, 2017 Contact:  Jeff Fontana, 530-252-5332                                                                        CA-N-17-57 Preliminary results for wild horse deaths at BLM corrals SUSANVILLE, Calif. […]

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Winter foals are smaller than foals born in summer

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photo by Carol Walker SOURCE:  SCIENCE DAILY Summary:  Although seasonal effects such as reduced metabolic activity in winter are known even in domesticated horse breeds, effects on pregnant mares and their foals have not been investigated. Researchers have now demonstrated that seasonal changes have a strong influence on […]

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Death by Helicopter: BLM Vet Releases Report on Calico Foal’s Death

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HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The federal Bureau of Land Management has released a veterinary report to Horseback Magazine that was requested by several individuals and advocacy groups. The report provides sketchy details on the final days of a foal filmed by photo journalist and videographer Laura Leigh on assignment for Horseback during a Nevada “gather” of wild horses.

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Icon of Freedom—Wild Black Stallion Escapes BLM Capture

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Winnemucca, NV (January 6, 2010)—Today the Cloud Foundation honors the Calico wild stallion, named “Freedom” —an inspiration to mustang roundup protestors worldwide. On January 2nd Freedom escaped Bureau of Land Management (BLM capture) by fighting his way out of the roundup corrals, jumping a six-foot fence, and smashing through a barbed wire fence to run fee again in the wild.

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UPDATE: BLM Ignores Media while Continuing Deadly Assault on Native Wild Horses

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HOUSTON, (Horseback) – The federal Bureau of Land Management has ceased communicating with Horseback Magazine.

On December 31, the magazine sent several pointed questions to the bureau and copied the email to its director Bob Abbey. The agency has not responded since, despite follow-up emails to both its Nevada spokesperson, Heather Emmons, and it’s chief Washington spokesman, Tom Gorey.

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Dr. Nena Winand Strikes Back on Mustang “Metabolic Disorder” Theory

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ITHACA, NY, – The original text printed on Ms. Picken’s website (I have not been able to locate it on the site) was taken from a personal email to her. The email was in regard to Salazar’s plan and about metabolic syndrome as one example of the fact that solving the problem of these horses is not as simple as plunking 1-10,000 on a farm out east and letting them run, because there is grass available.

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