Our welfare team member is out on the range today at the roundup while others celebrate the holiday. Thank you Colette Kaluza for your determination and commitment.
The two above temporarily evaded the choppers and came closer. You can see the sweat even though temperatures are near freezing.
Instead of flushing horses out of the tress to a trap, the trap was set on one side of a valley in the tree line.
Horses were driven from one side of the valley toward a trap set in trees. Fleeing into the trees for cover from the predator in the air is something wild horses do under stress. Then the trees create a challenge as two choppers bear down to put pressure on to get wild horses to move from the meager safety of the trees.
Families were pushed from one side of the valley to the other. It seems like they were able to slow down a bit when directly in from of observers and the chopper kept some distance.
But then they were pursued to the far tree line by two helicopters and captured.
86 (22 Stallions, 40 Mares, and 24 Foals) wild horses were caught on a day were temperatures dipped down to 8 degrees on the way to trap and only rose to around 37.
Total captured 1,915 (717 Stallions, 758 Mares, and 440 Foals). 23 have died onsite.
You can find ongoing team reports from Triple B HERE.
Our team members are onsite at trap and facilities and working today to meet deadlines on litigation (we will update you soon).
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