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Tuesday, January 05, 2016
Update on Wild Horses Shipped from Palomino Valley 
Dear Readers,
My concern over empty corrals at Palomino Valley Wild Horse and Burro Preparation Facility led me to request more details about our mustangs and their after-capture movements All of the information I've put in italics are taken directly from BLM sources.
"As of December 31, 2015, the number of animals at PVC are as follows: 1,129 horses and 12 burros, "
I also asked for the WHO, WHEN, WHERE and WHY of wild horse shipping.
Although the WHY is still forthcoming, but these shipping records cover the period I asked for, from November 1 - January 1. They were secured for me by BLM Public Affairs Specialist Jason Lutterman.
WHO are these horses? Their coat colors are sorrel and roan, both strawberry and blue, gray and bay, black, brown, pinto and dun.
They're as old as 15 years and as young as one. Some were born on the range, but many are facility born. Some have strikes listed on their final shipping orders.
Strikes tell how many
times a wild horse has been offered for adoption but failed to find a home.
Three strikes aren't good.
The 3-year old bay with 4 strikes, 2-year old sorrel with 5, and three yearlings with 3 or 4 each are not protected by the BLM oversight afforded adoptees. Three strikes mustangs and horses of certain ages may be be sold outright. To whom? For what? If they're fortunate, they might be sold to someone with good intentions.
WILD HORSE HOW-TO: Have questions about mustangs or burros in facilities other than Palomino Valley? Contact that facility directly. If the facility cannot pull the information for you, ask who can and you should be given a name and phone number/email address for someone who can.Labels: adoption, BLM, Bruneau, burros, Calico, Carson City, Elk Creek, Idaho, mustangs, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Palomino Valley, Paul's Valley, Sale Authority horses, Three Strikes, wild horses Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 6:18 PM 3 comments  
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 Phone Interview with Jeb Beck, Acting Manage PALOMINO VALLEY Dear Readers, What follows is only a transcription of my notes. You've seen plenty of my opinions other places, but for this blog post, I put on my objective journalist's hat, asked questions and wrote down the answers. If you see quotation marks, that means this is a direct quote which I took down like dictation, word-for-word. Since I am sitting at my kitchen table and was not looking at the horses as we spoke, you'll find no judgement here from me.I attempted to focus on concerns from Facebook and Twitter posters, but of course I didn't cover everything. Best, Terri
Sale Authority and Three Strikes Horses:
Purchase of Sale
Authority horses must go through D.C. This may be a slightly longer process than before because D.C.
doesn’t just sign off. Checks and balances have been added to avoid Tom
Davis – style disasters.
Sale
Authority mares with foals at side can’t be purchased until foals are of an age
to be branded. Then, foals may
be adopted and mare may be purchased outright.
So, it’s 2 transactions, not a two-for-the-price
of one sale.
Three-Strikes:
According to Beck, horses at PV don’t get a strike just for being there,
available for adoption. They may get one if they’re featured in an Internet
adoption. After they get that "strike," they're usually shipped further East for adoption at another facility.
The horses move are based on what other BLM
facilities need. Example: if they facility has all mares available for
adopters, they might ask PV to send geldings.
Brands: U mark on
horses’ necks (in some photos, it looked
like a sideways F to me) means the horse is – on arrival at PC – a sale
authority horse because s/he is 11 years or older.
Hip brands - AC is a common one -- are tied to fertility studies and indicate when/where horses received fertility shot(s).
There are
currently 1800 horses at PV.
Although
these aren’t “fresh” horses (fresh off the range), they are all at greater risk when
they are moved – to have feet trimmed, for instance. Risk is higher than
when they’re just standing in pens because crowded horses will kick and spooked horses
may run into fences.
Hooves are
currently being trimmed on a most-needed basis.
Staff moves from corral to corral and trims hooves of all horses
in that corral based on which corralhas the MOST horses who need their hooves
trimmed.
Beck said is safer than taking them out one at a time and
stirring up all of the horses in multiple corrals. It also ensures all horses in each corral will have attention to their feet.
At this
moment, they were “halfway through yearling geldings."
Hoof
trimming is sandwiched between other chores and may be delayed if horses have
strangles or are sick.
Dead
Mustangs: between June 28th and July 8th four horses died or were euthanized.
1. Mare in pen with other horses in preparation
for hoof trimming presented with “wobbles” one morning, meaning there was swelling
around spinal chord, possible neck fracture. She was euthanized.
2. Horse died of Bastard Strangles (different
from standard Strangles because it presents in body, not neck), 2 weeks
post-diagnosis and treatment
3. Yearling from video “passed overnight” and was
found dead in her pen on the morning of July 2. Her body was removed by 8:30 am
July 2.
“Unless there’s clinical signs of cause of death, horses have to be
listed as undiagnosed,” said Beck.
4. 3-year-old was found dead. Cause of death undiagnosed.
“No animals
have passed since July 2,” said Beck.
Injured horses: Horses which appear lame from a stone bruise, kick or other minor injury are observed in their corrals and not immediately moved to sick pens. "If they're eating and drinking, we watch them," because this is safer than stirring up all of the horses in the corral.
If the injury worsens or horse seems sick, s/he is evaluated by vet and a determination on whether it should be taken out of home corral is made.
Sunburned
horses: Beck commented specifically on a
gray and white pinto, sunburned and
peeling across the withers. This horse,
he said, has been at PV for six months and had been diagnosed earlier with a
food allergy which caused skin peeling according to a vet report. That peeling
patch got sunburned.
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Labels: 3 Strikes horses, Jeb Beck, Palomino Valley, Sale Authority horses, sunburn, wild horse deaths Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 1:10 PM 0 comments
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