This planned surgery includes risks of infection, bleeding, and death. The agency plans to hire presently unknown veterinarians to perform a painful and invasive surgical procedure in which a mare’s ovaries are crushed then pulled out with a looped chain instrument. The mares would later be released onto the range.
Even a BLM-commissioned report from the National Academy of Sciences in 2013 advised against the use of the procedures on wild mares. In addition, there are no substantive studies to evaluate the long-term health of ovariectomized mares, not to mention that it will achieve nothing in terms of any effective or viable solution for managing populations on the range.
304 federally protected wild horses have recently been captured by the BLM from the Confusion Herd in Utah. 17 mares from this herd are in DANGER of suffering this barbaric and pointless surgery. These procedures are dangerous, inhumane risk. Proven safer fertility controls exist. Contact your Senators to stop this.
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