Horse burgers and burro burros, baby.
Horseys are livestock.
Interesting.
But I have little knowledge of the subject and no background. This starts rather in the middle of the issue and some background info would be appreciated.
There is a very simple solution. And it is not new. Let people capture them and keep them for free.
Free horses. But you have to come capture the wild animals like they had to do in the old days.
—I’ve seen the horse collection north of Sparks,Nevada.
—they are about the sorriest collectioin of nags ever beheld-—shipping them to France for consumption is far better than wasting tax money on them-—
I have seen wild horses in/near the Bighorn Canyon, National Recreation Area, in Wyoming, and Montana.
After Nevada it is the 2nd biggest collection of wild horses.
Think the article means "competition" - but, in any event, no. Just . . . no.
Person sees one pic of a horse rearing up to clear some knee-high wispy grass, and thinks that that horse is going to be able to carry a rider over 4' - 4'6" solid walls, oxers, and combinations against the clock?
Nope.
Even the BLM horses that are NOT sickly inbreds are mostly stock type, very short-backed, close-coupled and short-legged, with short necks and heavy heads. They can no more negotiate even a Novice level jumping course than fly to the moon.
Might be good on barrels, though.
They’ll ALL be very valuable after the EMP hits, eh?
“government estimates that each one of the 45,000 wild horses will cost taxpayers $50,000 over its lifetime.”
Here’s a thought: whatever you’re spending that money on, stop.
Hell, make some money. Raffle off the meat.
Who would trust anything coming from Bureau of Land Management? They are nothing more than agenda driven liberals.
Here’s a blog on Ladd Drummond’s US tax dollar paid horses. He’s the husband of the Foodnetwork’s, “The Pioneer Woman”, Rhea Drummond.
http://www.rechelleunplugged.com/2011/01/ladd-drummond-in-the-news/
No, it’s not my blog and have no idea who’s it is but it’s a good $$$$ breakdown.
Well, they couldn’t drag me away. (h/t MJ)
Heartbreaking. I always loved horses and read all those books about the wild island horses as a child. Five years ago I saw my first wild horses just outside of Virginia City NV running free. Stopped the car in the middle of nowhere to watch. On my childhood bucket list.
Thanks for opening my eyes to this.
We have wild horses coming out our ears here in Nevada. They regularly are in our neighborhood eating the lawns. They are eating up the food that real wildlife would eat. Next time we get a dry season we are going to have starving and dead horses all over the place.
I love the wild horses around here. I really do. Every morning I get to see them. When we go off-roading they are all over. But there are too many. So far I have only see one dead one on the side of the trail. But they breed FAST. every tiny herd around here is 1/3 to 1/2 yearlings and younger. A couple good wet years and the population explodes. One good dry year and they are going to be dying all over the place.
Wild horse, like any other wild animal, is a ressource: it must bring in money, not cost money.
How the h.ll does they assess a cost of $50,000 per animal, and even more, justify such cost? They must have used same Nintendo “science” models as the climateers.
This out-of-control bureaucracy is insane.
Horses are an invasive speecies brought here by spanish when they were genociding indians and poisoning them, so that white guys got the blame for that... (remember, isabella was SPAIN not england france or germany)
Horses DO damage the environment just as pythons are ruining florida, and pigs are destroying hawaii...
This is what happens when bleeding heart liberals want to shutdown U.S. Slaughter Houses.
During the civil war a lot of soldiers on both sides resorted to eating horse meat. As I understand it the meat was pretty good.