The U.S. Bureau of Land Management plans to step up temporary roundups of wild horses to treat the animals with fertility control drugs before releasing them back to the range instead or permanently removing them from public lands. The agency plans 11 gathers of wild horses on federal land in Nevada, Idaho and Utah in the coming year for the primary purpose of applying the vaccine to about 890 mares. “If these fertility control treatments prove successful, we can lengthen the time between some gathers, saving taxpayer dollars,” BLM Director Bob Abbey said Wednesday. Horse protection advocates said the temporary roundups are a step in the right direction but complained that the strategy will be used in less than one-fifth of BLM gathers planned in the coming year...more
They might want vaccinate a bunch of politicians while they are at it, since they are surely doing more than anybody to screw up the "landscape". Put a "rapid" in front of that too - I'm sick of these guys.
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fertility injections cost a lot of money and maybe they work and maybe they don't. the real permanent solution to this problem is to get rid of the studs or if they want a stud in the herd use a crytporchid stallion that has had the down testicle removed. A lot of screwing and no babies and he will be the boss of the herd. Why don't the BLM'ers get this because it is free essentially and the smart guys don't make any money off of it.
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