U.S. Gov't to round up 1,000 wild horses, sell many to be slaughtered

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Needing rescues and good homes:

https://www.facebook.com/happyhorses...homes/?__xts__

https://www.facebook.com/lastchanced...rses/?ref=py_c

[Peter1469]

Needing rescues and good homes:

https://www.facebook.com/happyhorses...homes/?__xts__

https://www.facebook.com/lastchanced...rses/?ref=py_c

Do they advise this on the radio where you are? They do here, but there is horse country close to me.

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More equines in need of rescues and good homes:

http://equinerescuenetwork.com

https://netposse.com/article.asp?id=2148

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Sally shows many once wild horses and burros sold by BLMWHB to buyers with a $1000 stipend for each one bought where some are sold to "kill pens":

https://twitter.com/moodysally1


Horses in need of good homes and sponsors to rescue them:

https://twitter.com/SRF_SOSS


Horses needing rescues:

https://twitter.com/Soulhorses


Post #202 is a list of equine advocates. Wild horses and burros take care of the land virtually free, dig water wells that benefit other animals, but are being removed at record numbers, abused in the process. The result is land degradation by commercial interests, fires, lives lost, billions of dollars in property damages, the misuse of millions of taxpayer dollars every year. America's wild heritage is disappearing as the U.S. Congress sits on its hands, as some of them or other are involved in it. It is on record U.S.D.A. Wildlife Services kills millions of mammals and birds every year by cruel means.

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More precious animals in need:

https://twitter.com/heartandhooves

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Horses and the Bering Land Bridge

"How closely related are the horses that roam the North American west today to the wild horses that lived in the same place until the end of the last Ice Age? [...]

During past ice ages, glaciers trapped a large proportion of global water volume, which lowered sea levels. In Beringia, lower seas exposed a landmass that connected Eurasia and North America. The temporary land corridor between the continents is known as the Bering Land Bridge. The Bering Land Bridge ecosystem provided a biogeographical dispersal route for animals and plants to migrate from Eurasia into North America and vice versa. The land connection acted similarly to wildlife corridors created by conservation scientists today, but on a much larger scale and created by the geological process rather than a conservation effort. [...]

To reconstruct the evolutionary history of present-day and extinct horses, we generated ancient DNA data from a panel of more than 100 ancient horses and analyzed these data using two approaches. First, we reconstructed the evolutionary history of maternally inherited mitochondrial genomes using a data set of 189 horses. The mitochondrial genomes sampled from both Eurasian and North American horse populations allowed us to estimate the number of times that female horses dispersed across the Bering Land Bridge in either direction. Second, we turned to the nuclear genomes, which, unlike mitochondrial DNA, are inherited through both male and female lines. Nuclear DNA molecules are larger and more complex than the mitochondrial ones. Thus, on the one hand, a nuclear genome is much more difficult to sequence and assemble, but on the other hand, it is more evolutionary informative.

...our initial findings suggest that horses first dispersed from North America into Eurasia between 1 million and 800,000 years ago. However, the history of the horse is not so simple. After their initial colonization of Eurasia, we estimate that horses continued to disperse between the continents perhaps each time that lower sea levels exposed the Bering Land Bridge! The new immigrants integrated into the populations and shared genes, maintaining evolutionary connectivity between populations on the two continents. We found strong evidence that horses dispersed into North America from Eurasia during the most recent glacial period, not long before the colonization of North America by humans."

https://pgl.soe.ucsc.edu/horses.html

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More precious animals in need below, above, and on page 21.


> Standardbred Retirement Foundation (SRF), an organization that helps Standardbreds in need, saves from slaughter:

https://twitter.com/SRF_SOSS


> Helping horses and other animals:

https://twitter.com/HelpingHorses3


> Heart and Hooves rescue, a nonprofit equine rescue saving slaughter bound and at risk equines, committed to rescue, rehabilitating, and rehoming:

https://twitter.com/heartandhooves

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Reward Rises to $25K for Information on Wild Horse shootings

https://wildhorseeducation.org/2023/...rse-shootings/

https://twitter.com/WildHorseEdu

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Reward Rises to $25K for Information on Wild Horse shootings

https://wildhorseeducation.org/2023/...rse-shootings/

https://twitter.com/WildHorseEdu

MF CS scum. I could think of many things that should happen to whomever did this.

[Peter1469]

I found the nutrition info on horse meat. The French are onto something:

the nutrition analysis and essential fatty acid profile of 1 pound of raw horsemeat:

• 603 calories
• 97g protein
• 0g carbohydrate
• 6.5g saturated fat
• 7.3g monounsaturated fat
• 1,632mg omega-3 fatty acids
• 1,315mg omega-6 fatty acids