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"Depression & Pain" ~ Calico Mustangs Injured in Roundups Now in Sick Pens @ BLM's Fallon Holding Pens.
OCTOBER, 2010. I JUST LEARNED THAT THE SORREL ON RIGHT, DIED ON MARCH 10TH, ACCORDING TO BLM SPREADSHEET. SHE WAS ONLY 2 YEARS OLD.
It is so hard to see them in this condition, especially when you know that just weeks ago they were wild and free, running, playing and enjoying miles of open range and nibbling sweet sage in their homelands. The horse with this horrid open wound is also lame on right leg and showing ribs, not to mention the depression it feels and pain! I guess this is why it is in the sick pens. Thank God they finally put up wind Breaks for them! It is very hard to look at the face of the other horse that is obviously very depressed and in pain too.
Another observer and myself were discussing this terrible open injury!!!! We thought it very well could be from the terrified forcing into the narrow metal chutes. There was another horse with about the same, nearly exact injury and location of it also!
This photo was taken on Sunday, February 28th, 2010 @ The Indian Lakes / Fallon holding facility of captured wild horses, most from the recent Calico roundups.
1,922 were gathered, but including 35 aborted foals, approximately 100 have died to date, due to the stressful helicopter roundups, stampedes in winter over miles of volcanic rock, snow and ice. In winter they are in a survival mode. The terror and stress from this only depleted their reserved energies and forced then into small pens at the gather site and sometimes directly into a truck!!! If you have seen any videos or shots of the gathers on site, you will see how they are shoved into small spaces and up against metal bars and chutes, smashing into each other, rearing up and falling over and being stomped on also! This must not continue! BLM now has their eyes set on "The Twin Peaks" herd management area, HMA, and plan a huge gather there!
THIS MUST STOP!!! No more of the same mismanagement of OUR wild horses and burros! Please protest by calling the White House.......Obama = 202-456-1111
Michelle Obama = 202 -456-1414 and Senate and Congress = 202-224-3121
"Depression & Pain" ~ Calico Mustangs Injured in Roundups Now in Sick Pens @ BLM's Fallon Holding Pens.
OCTOBER, 2010. I JUST LEARNED THAT THE SORREL ON RIGHT, DIED ON MARCH 10TH, ACCORDING TO BLM SPREADSHEET. SHE WAS ONLY 2 YEARS OLD.
It is so hard to see them in this condition, especially when you know that just weeks ago they were wild and free, running, playing and enjoying miles of open range and nibbling sweet sage in their homelands. The horse with this horrid open wound is also lame on right leg and showing ribs, not to mention the depression it feels and pain! I guess this is why it is in the sick pens. Thank God they finally put up wind Breaks for them! It is very hard to look at the face of the other horse that is obviously very depressed and in pain too.
Another observer and myself were discussing this terrible open injury!!!! We thought it very well could be from the terrified forcing into the narrow metal chutes. There was another horse with about the same, nearly exact injury and location of it also!
This photo was taken on Sunday, February 28th, 2010 @ The Indian Lakes / Fallon holding facility of captured wild horses, most from the recent Calico roundups.
1,922 were gathered, but including 35 aborted foals, approximately 100 have died to date, due to the stressful helicopter roundups, stampedes in winter over miles of volcanic rock, snow and ice. In winter they are in a survival mode. The terror and stress from this only depleted their reserved energies and forced then into small pens at the gather site and sometimes directly into a truck!!! If you have seen any videos or shots of the gathers on site, you will see how they are shoved into small spaces and up against metal bars and chutes, smashing into each other, rearing up and falling over and being stomped on also! This must not continue! BLM now has their eyes set on "The Twin Peaks" herd management area, HMA, and plan a huge gather there!
THIS MUST STOP!!! No more of the same mismanagement of OUR wild horses and burros! Please protest by calling the White House.......Obama = 202-456-1111
Michelle Obama = 202 -456-1414 and Senate and Congress = 202-224-3121