Wild horses couldn't keep President Donald Trump away from the chance of making a kill, according to a new report.Under his administration, thousands of wild horses have been rounded up with helicopters, packed into metal trailers, trucked hundreds of miles, and sold off to be slaughtered, the New Y...
They gotta cull these things. Horses breed like crazy, it would be easier if the US didn’t treat them like wild pets and require the weird plausible deniability.
Almost nobody wants a wild horse, they’re just gonna cull 99.9% anyway. And if you don’t cull them they become diseased pests like deer.
I think they have an average 40% adoption rate?
That flattens individuals and second string kill pens into the same group though.
No one with any political power wants actual culls though and the feral mustang herd plays an important role in keeping the blm grazelands in shape for ranchers to run cows on em.
So even if you can climb the ideology mountain there’s real material forces at work preserving the feral mustang herd.
Wow that number seems crazy high, but i looked it up again and numbers are pretty fucking high. In 2019 the fed started giving away 1,000 split in two payments if you adopt one and that alone doubled the rates.