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Core-Lokts are fine. Don't overthink this. If there was another dimension where we elect sensible persons to congress to change the F'ing laws, eradicate the damned things for what they are, it'd be a done deal. But there isn't we don't and it wont be.
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Shouldn’t be too hard to trap and castrate the males. . says the guy that's never been around wild horses.... Yes, very..... But maybe I should have phrased it as, 'never been around wild horses, IN the wild'.....
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There are some chemical castration programs in effect for some of the essentially confined eastern island populations of horses. There's some criticism though as the typical herd/band stability is disrupted due to extended or continuous heat cycles of the mares. More and extended fighting among males that would not be seen in a typical short breeding season. Likely would be harder to apply to herds on our extensive western landscapes though.
One can find small groups of truly castrated males in many western herds. Probably they've been turned out by frustrated owners in the private sector. They do not, however, have the will or desire to assemble and hold harems and typically form their own sort of generally rejected subgroup. Castrate all but a few males, and those intact will still assure the available mares are bred.
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They are beautiful horses. But at the cost of big game? No thanks please.
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Wild horses to be captured in central Idaho to reduce herd
The Bureau of Land Management plans to begin rounding up horses near Challis on or about Nov. 5.
Author: Associated Press
Published: 7:32 PM MDT October 25, 2019
Updated: 7:32 PM MDT October 25, 2019
CHALLIS, Idaho — Officials say they plan to use a helicopter to capture 365 wild horses in central Idaho in early November to reduce the number of horses to about 185.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management in a news release Friday says the roundup in the Challis Herd Management Area near the town of Challis will begin on or about Nov. 5 and take up to nine days.
The agency says balancing herd size with what the 260-square-mile (675-square-kilometer) management area can support will help protect habitat for wildlife species such as sage grouse, pronghorn antelope, mule deer and elk.
The agency says mares released back into the management area will be treated with fertility control.
About 240 horses not released back into the wild will be transported to the Bruneau Wild Horse Off-Range Corral facility southeast of Boise for adoption.
RELATED: Official: Solving wild horse problem will take $5 billion, 15 years
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Glue and dog food sounds like a good use for them.
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Nah, it reminds me of the woolgrowers meeting where the lady addressed the group and suggested neutering the wild coyotes to keep down the sheep depradation. About that time, the grizzled ol' sheepman stood up and told her that she didn't understand. The coyotes weren't fugging our sheep, they were EATING our sheep......
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Huntsman22:
A good one. Reminds me of the cattle guard budget cut that's attributed to nearly every sitting president. Let the stockmen guard their own cattle.
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Trap them and transport a bunch up here. We need something to supplement the caribou herds for the Anchorage hunters.
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Glue and dog food sounds like a good use for them. shoot them with lead free bullets and let the condors eat them!
...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right....
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Back around 1980, a couple of friends and myself went to Cross Plains TN, to the wild horse adoption center, and got us a few of those mustangs. We all had horses, but were intrigued by the mustangs, and wanted to see if we could break them and make a good horse out of them.
As far as I'm concerned, that was a few dollars and some of my time that was a total waste. While I'm sure that some people who got them did have a positive outcome, and as a matter of fact one of the horses we brought back was broke to ride rather good, there are far too many good domesticated horses out there for anyone wanting a horse.
I'm not in the West, so I don't see the damage they do, but having horses of my own, I know that it's very easy for them to overgraze. Since there are no more "wild" Injuns to have a use for the wild horses, they don't need to be running around overpopulating their range. As much as I like horses, and I even like the thought of wild horses running around free, there numbers need to be controlled, and they don't need to cause the apparent problems they are.
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DIdn't bother the Anti's one bit to push for the introduction of wolves to our Western states to kill hundreds of thousands of elk. An Elk brings a lot more revenue to these states then a horse that is not even a native species.
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The Wild Horse Act and the Marine Mammal Act are 2 classic examples of a congress voting without taking time analyse what will happen if the plan works. It's all emotion without knowledge. A big problem is writing these bills without a sunset clause. Once enacted, they can't get rid of them when they turn into disasters.
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Nah, it reminds me of the woolgrowers meeting where the lady addressed the group and suggested neutering the wild coyotes to keep down the sheep depradation. About that time, the grizzled ol' sheepman stood up and told her that she didn't understand. The coyotes weren't fugging our sheep, they were EATING our sheep...... Has about the same validity as the suggestion made above. Must be the liberal mindset at work. They wanna castrate everything. Horses, coyotes, real men. No testicles allowed...  I have a helluva test for them down here with all the wild pigs, if they wanna see how well that works, and how easy it would be... 
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Screw the sheep! They haven't done a damn thing to help settle this country!
Let the horses be!! Solution... We'll trap them and release them in Your backyard. Actually, the sheep fed many explorers and people emigrating west. Actually....no explorer or people ever rode a sheep across a river or 3000 miles across the USA and I've never see a frickin sheep pulling a plow!!
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A horse could cross the country with a rider but on the Oregon trail, oxen did the bulk of the pulling. Horses couldn't take the day after day stress. Oxen were slow and ugly but they could keep going in conditions that killed horses.
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Seems simple enough, dog meat.
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OK. Shouldn’t be too hard to trap and castrate the males. . I understand they are competing with the bighorn, not ƒucking them.
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Pay a bounty for their scalps, both ears attached.
Allow them to be rounded up and marketed to the French.
Remove all penalties for shooting feral horses. Best solution! The ones the Feds already have rounded up and penned should be turned into dog food.
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