Wild Horse Roundup - Challis, Idaho July 2009

[Victourios17]

When I`m older I think I`ll roundup as many wild horses as I can get a couple of acres or enough land,stables & paddoks for them all. The majority of them will stay wild horses and not be touched by any human.

[DomSubmissiveKitty]

They do round ups to 1) sale the horses 2) control the population and 3) vaccinate them, most of the time they do a round up it is to vaccinate them against equine diseases, google about it and u'll see that there was a case envolving the outbreak of a equine disease that wiped out a entire herd. The one's that are adopted out are broken in first to the pressence of humans and you HAVE TO meet the requirements to adopt one, you can't have animal abuse charges against you.

[DomSubmissiveKitty]

@DomSubmissiveKitty on a added note, i done research, they don't adopt wild horses from round ups to rodeos, its against the animal rights act. The only way you see these beautiful animals in rodeos is because there is always a lying rancher that will lie on the papers to adopt these animals and then sale them secretively to rodeos for more then they had to pay to adopt them and i'm talkin about thousands...

[xkabelbaan]

wild horses are much beautifull than tamed horses !

[Hightimezman]

My name is Lance Troy Jones, my grandfather Ward Jones, died 1923, my father Val Jones died 1989, his brother Verl Jones and Clay Jones all homesteaded the land the video was taken from...... It is our families ancestral land, and most importantly the BLM has been rounding up the wild horses for 100 years on and off. My father Val and his brother Verl even had a great cowboy armed standoff with the forestry and BLM after they both rode into town and re-rounded up all the horses to set them free.

[Hightimezman]

My name is Lance Troy Jones, my grandfather Ward Jones, died 1923, my father Val Jones died 1989, his brother Verl Jones and Clay Jones all homesteaded the land the video was taken from...... It is our families ancestral land, and most importantly the BLM has been rounding up the wild horses for 100 years on and off. My father Val and his brother Verl even had a great cowboy armed standoff with the forestry and BLM after they both rode into town and re-rounded up all the horses to set them free.

[wildmustangrobin]

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[JSMCBuckweat]

100 degrees my ass challis high ever is 97 degrees in 89 and in the last 5 years the high has been 93.... i guarantee that wasnt on any of the round up days!!!

[JSMCBuckweat]

100 degrees my ass challis high ever is 97 degrees in 89 and in the last 5 years the high has been 93....

[zakaslam1]

If someone did that near me , i break in and release them

[conrocapub]

I think David Martin Anderson does a great job in his new book, 'The Last Good Horse,' describing horse round-ups in the 1930s. There's also an author interview on the subject on You Tube. Do a search under the author's name to find it. Great stuff. Great read!

[everytimeyougoxox]

Sooo they think slaughtering them all in mexico and other places is reallyy gonna help them to be in control... >:|

[thebuckskin07]

They have to gather the who band to know which ones to cull. This is the problem. They cull the young and the old that won't make much longer. The government pays for the treatment of the old until they die and no one wants to adopt a young, wild horse, with no papers, that you can't sell. Everyone knows their are plenty of "wild" horses at the sell barn thanks to the people who stopped horse slaughter. America shot itself in the foot this time.

[candygrl30]

So you have to control them, right? So you have to take 5. 15 tops if it was an extremely productive year.\

You don't need to evacuate all 40 animals if only 15 are needed to be taken out. And there's more humane ways to do it then chase the poor horses around in a helicopter until they nearly collapse from exhaustion!

Honestly, I think the govn't is just doing this for the selfish reasons of the livestock ranchers.

[site4pets]

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[dog10crazy]

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[GreenBayBreyerFarm]

This is terrible... D:

[MsTaterdog]

I dont see many pictures of the wild horses starving because of over grazed ground because there are too many of them for the area. This does happen if they are not controlled in the numbers and the area they are in wont support them through the winters. Lets get down to the reality of it. There has to be some control on the herds sizes for this reason.

[watchingelk]

@MsTaterdog

Wild horse advocates are not opposed to management of the herds, but there are kinder ways to maintain herd size - bait trapping, PZP sterilization etc.

[watchingelk]

@MsTaterdog

Yes, but on 126,000 acres, with 400 horses and 4000 cattle? C;mon.

[watchingelk]

@MsTaterdog

Yes, but on 126,000 acres, with 400 horses and 4000 cattle? C;mon. Go to 3:39... Take it from Kenny.

[MsTaterdog]

But if these horses are not controlled they multiply, they have colts almost every year and in a couple of years the herd doubles in size, and keeps on growing in size.

[MsTaterdog]

But if these horses are not controlled they multiply, they have colts almost every year and in a couple of years the herd doubles in size, and keeps on growing in size.

Dont take me wrong I have loved horses all my life , but there has to be control on them to continue to let the herds run free. I have seen the wild horses domesticated. Many adopters let them run free in pastures even though they are contained to the smaller areas they do have the freedom of being a horse.

[watchingelk]

@MsTaterdog

There are management alternatives like bait trapping, PZP... No one is arguing that they need to be managed. It's HOW they are managed, with disregard to family systems, cruelty, and at ridiculous expense to the taxpayer. Go to awhpc.com and read the section on solutions. There are many.

[ArabianImages]

@MsTaterdog oh so we are supposed to control the herds by sending them to slaughter! very few find homes almost all of them are taken to mexico or canada to be inhumanely slaughtered!

[Erinsgoldisbeautiful]

@MsTaterdog For the Brumby horse poplulation to stableize, 89% of all the mares in each herd have to have 2 foals a season! They cannot manage that!! The beautiful horses aren't multiplying so much as they're having land taken away from them. I think the BLM should cut their shizz, and dedicate a 200,000 acre area to the wild horses, and leave it for them! The BLM are doing a terrible job in maintaining the wild horse population, just about as bad as the 'Rangers" are on Fraiser Island!

[qrackerlover]

may i ask who was the lead stallion? I am doing a project and seeing if the herd dynamic chages the result of rounding them up.

[watchingelk]

There were many lead stallions in many of the separate bands. the herd dynamic completely changes due to round ups. Family bands are obliterated and there is a tremendous disturbance & shifting in the herd dynamics for the ones left on the land.

And the ones adopted, auctioned, warehoused or whatever?? Their lives change forever the minute they are chased by the helicopter and put in trailers. Some adjust, of course, but they are no longer wild horses...

[qrackerlover]

@watchingelk thanks but i am trying to see if the stallions personlity chages the round up process.

[watchingelk]

not sure what you mean. the round up process being helicopters chasing them into traps?

[MsTaterdog]

If you have a smarter and more docile stalllion the whole herd should be easier to work with. Some of these animals have better breeding and are more sensible than others. Wild or domestic this all makes a difference in the out come of how they react when corralled and handled. Some of these animal activists dont see the reality of much of what normal horses do. All they ever see are the pampered stalled horses at the local stables and dont have a clue of horses not raised this way.

[FloridianHorseGirl97]

This is absolutely HORRIFYING! They think their helping but their NOT! at the stable i go to their is a mustang that was rounded up and he's absolutely TERRIFIED of men now, because of what they did to him! Hes ruined! Its horrible! But thanks to his owner he may get better..."too many too many!" well look how many people there are and no one rounds us up! Were the ones doing the damage. GOD DAMN

[FloridianHorseGirl97]

This is absolutely HORRIFYING! They think their helping but their NOT! at the stable i go to their is a mustang that was rounded up and he's absolutely TERRIFIED of men now, because of what they did to him! Hes ruined! Its horrible! But thanks to his owner he may get better...

[mewhitelaw8]

Here is a reason for roundups:

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved a big solar energy plant in the Mojave Desert on Wednesday [Oct 20, 2010], making it the fifth such project on public land in the West to win federal authorization.

His approval authorizes the Bureau of Land Management to offer Tessera Solar the use of more than 4,600 acres for 30 years to build the Calico Solar Project. The project next faces a hearing before the California Energy Commission.

[superwhiz88]

if you round up the fking traitor repulscums and deport them to the moon .. then the land will be peace and beautifully natural again .. why,, cause its all about profit.. how to lick their sugar daddy big corporation to get an extra dollars out of land or us..

[1veryreal]

@superwhiz88 - what big corporation?

[watchingelk]

One year later and it's getting worse. So much for the audacity of hope...

[3MoonGDSS]

Yes, "I don't like at all" "Why don't they leave them horses alone.." I agree and so do 580 people gthrd past 14 days, we are circling in protection forour wild horses here now. Please like this page for actions : facebook Wild Horse Protection Act

[3MoonGDSS]

Yes...leave our wild horses alone!

No slaughtering, harming, harassing our wild horses.

Support media attention on this now, to push stalled bills thru the Senate. Each moment that passes more horses lives are lost at the hands of BLM, w tax payer dollars, clearing our public land of our national treasure, our wild horses,for private interest profiteering. pls visit "Wild Horse Protection Act" on Facebook, for links and actions, articles too~:

[NikiBoshell]

This breaks my heart. The government needs to leave these beautiful animals alone. How cruel. They deserve better.

[bigdaddyquey]

i love horses



[Hostile8]

The BLM has no regard for wildlife... All your concerns should be directly sent to the address bellow... Perhaps, after receiving tons of complaints they will adopt an alternative solution... Currently it seems to be money the onlything they (BLM) care about... Voice your opinion...

Don Glenn, Division Chief

Wild Horse and Burro Management

1620 L Street NW, Rm. 204

Washington, DC 20036

Main Contact Number: 202-912-7261

[watchingelk]

RIP Kenny Bradshaw.

[deckzone3000]

Humans wont be satisfied until every non-human creature on this planet is dead or in a cage.

[WildhorseAnni]

We have all that public land -BUT BLM has our horses on private land information given by Mr. Nick, former feedlot owner hired by the BLM, the reason BLM held round up during the winter months instead of in Sept , is that they hired a buddy to receive the Calico horses, (to fatten his pockets with our tax dollars) and this buddy did not have his feedlot even built or ready for the horses until Dec. They don't protect our public lands , wildlife & water -but profit illegally

[smallestdachshund]

I adopted the foal at 2:02. We've adopted 3 wild horses since 2003. I can't believe they do this, but at least we're trying to help when the bureaucrats fail. They're the smartest horses.

[sunlei5]

I demand the BLM run live streaming vids 24/7 on all their holding facilities and run live vids on all round-ups. 24/7 Reports of BLM running wild horses by helicoptor, into the capture pens and directly into trucks!! Then having those mustangs stay crammed in those trucks. My God can you imagine cramming wild animals into a truck. What is wrong with the BLM? why can't they be charged with animal abuse?

[sabrinaburdynski]

ok that was bad do it the old fashoned way get on a horse and yuo ride for 10 plus miles and see if you arent hott peaple are so lazy the poor horsesdrenched in sweat i wanna adopt all of em and then just letem go again and there was a thing that said some go to slaughter and not all left alive or even return to the wild those are the only real wild horses but now there not there rounded up every year and seen peaple and have been branded and touched and halterd there now just orniments for out

[CDLver]

This roundup of wild horses is all about grass and which animals get to graze on it!

Wild horses have the right to roam the PUBLIC land of the Western ranges and they are being removed so that ranchers can graze their privately-owned livestock on PUBLIC lands!

2,700 horses in the Calico Mountain of northwestern Nevada will be rounded-up starting TODAY!

[BreyerLoverHorsie78]

@CDLver i kno, i hate round-ups. i kno the population of the wild horses needs to be controlled cause if we just lt the population get bigger and bigger we'll have too many but still, if ur gonna round up horses, only do it once a year and dont take more than wat is nessicary

[blablabla9656]

Just leave them alone. Man simply doesn't have the wisdom to interfere in the workings of nature.

[shycountrymiss]

PS- As far as the Montana roundup mentioned by the author? It was a Montana Senator that removed the mustang protection in the first place in 2004.

[shycountrymiss]

If you want to be mad at someone, or the group/groups responsible, take on the ranchers, cattlemen, oil related, & hunters because behind the scenes, it is their doing. In the meantime, adopt or contribute. The Mustang Heritage Foundation is trying to increase adoptions by paying trainers to train mustangs.

[horsecrzy1987]

What a beautifull bunch of horses... they will surely get loving homes and go on to have a great life with their new families!!!

[powelljerseys85]

Dont count on it!

[CDLver]

Do you know of 2,700 people to adopt the

2,700 WILD horses that will be rounded-up starting today in Nevada?

These horses are going to be confined to overcrowded pens where they will languish along with the other 33,000 horses who've been removed from PUBLIC lands.

[NativeID]

Nice editing! I like how the interview is pieced together at just the right parts.I agree with "greenvanholzer" & hope Kenny was told he was lied to and that the empty field they call "Greenfire" still has horses grazing on it.She's right, educate yourselves & find out both sides to every story, not just the biased one.Talk to someone that actually put their money where their mouth is & actually adopted one of these beautiful animals & actually cares for one instead of someone with half truths.

[watchingelk]

Dear NativeID - You are right, it is great editing! And clearly, I have an opinion. But, no one lied to Kenny. The day we interviewed him, the horses had just been removed, and the field was empty. I posted this video days after the round up, so didn't know if or how many horses would be re-released. Herd dynamics, however, have been destroyed and I've got photos to prove that, too.

I am not opposed to wise management or good adoptions, but the way round ups are conducted are just plain wrong.

[anonymous915]

Why are our tax dollars being spent like this? If memory serves correctly, they have a hard time adopting these horses out; it's not as easy as it was in the '70's

[ladybloodrose]

Their doing the Pryor round up as we speak an its VERRY sad. Their running new born foals 10 miles down the mouatin for No reason. They captured cloud, conquistidore, seattle an so many others  an are removing ENTIRE bands an not releasing anythere are only gona be a few n which may be lucky to get returned...

Pray for the Pryor bands...

[reeljustic]

Four more roundups commenced 2 days ago - 3 in Oregon and one in Montana.

Please sign the petition at double you, double you, double you thepetitionsite dotcom forward slash takeaction forward slash 166841148

and send it out to all of your friends! The deadline for the petition is September 12th and the signature requirement is within reach!

Please sign it today and pass it on!

[MorganJServices]

I am sorry for the event you witness. I don't know how you controlled yourself as you filmed.

I don't use the word "hate", but in this case I will. I hate the BLM.

Every single federal employee, contractor or private citizen that is involved in the ruin of our wild horses & burros WILL face a reckoning for their selfish, sinful, greedy lives. The Great Spirit is the One who has ultimate control of the universe. He created this world in a divine pattern & working order.

[PNFphotography]

What upsets me is we have 33,000 horses in holding pens that may face death and yet the BLM is gathering more horses. I wish to see the study that proves that there are too many for this land does anyone know where I can get this???

[SparkleTally234]

its unbeleivable what ppl do to these horses and helicopters what r they gunna do next so ashamed ppl should think straight i dont like when ppl do this

[greenvanholzer]

It does seem out of whack that we have about two million cows chomping on Idaho range lands, yet cannot afford to keep 30,000 horses wild.

I trust that at some point during or after Kennys interview, someone mentioned to him that the BLM intends to turn loose on the range 130 of these captured horses, after they inspect them.

But mostly, thanks for posting this video of these iconic horses and thank heavens we had a wet spring, which helped drop the price of hay for our equestrian world.

[MorningOwlFarm]

Wow.

[reeljustic]

This is so incredibly disturbing.  The BLM is out of control, irresponsible and barbaric. They MUST be held accountable.

Please write or call your Senators and ask them to support HR 1018 "Restore Our American Mustangs" (ROAM). This bill has already passed the House. And the BLM did this anyway.

Do not stand for this! Take Action Now!