More than 2,700 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “Should wild horses be euthanized to help control their population growth in the Western United States?”

• No: 80.72% (2248)
  
• Yes: 18.28% (537)

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• relocation
  
• cut down on cattle ranches and people go vegetarian
  
• Sterilization
  
• sterilization
  
• birth control
  
• for controlling wild herds , castration of some. relocate herds, drop hay,
  
• birth control
  
• GIVE THEM TO PEOPLE THAT DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR ONE
  
• adoption
  
• lighten the restrictions of adoption of wild horses.
  
• can’t even save all domestics these days
  
• Remove the cattle
  
• Geld the stallions!
  
• Reproductive control using sterilization, temporary for all, permanent for some
  
• prevent pregnancies with birth control for mares.
  
• adoption
  
• Stop livestock grazing on federal lands, geld and release some stallions, use birth control on mares
  
• ALOT MORE FREE LAND FOR THEM
  
• A dollar from all horse feed sales should go to feed them
  
• relocate to better location
  
• sell to france to help with feed costs
  
• more resonable adoption practices and fees, sterilization
  
• Only the weak, deformed, & old and bad injuries, much like responsible horse owners.
  
• Geldings, just like we control cat colonies – spay & neuter. Trap, gelding, rest a week then release
  
• yes and no? what do we do? how bad is it for them to be overpopulated? will they starve?
  
• hold an adoption auction
  
• gelding stallions
  
• Capturing and gelding males and return to wild
  
• donating horses to colleges in th US for there equine riding programs
  
• Geld most stallions
  
• RescueFarms; train for medical and mental rehab/treatment kids and adults
  
• Take the majority of the colts off the range and geld & train them. Improve the breeding herd.
  
• gelding most of the mature stallions in each herd
  
• adoption, these horses are amazingly talented and diverse. they can be used for almost any disciplin
  
• Castrating some stallions and spaying some mares to reduce herd sizes
  
• castration
  
• geld some of the studs
  
• Let them be
  
• birth control would be more humane
  
• Get them fixed? I wouldn’t want to have to be the one to catch him or her.
  
• Stallion castration Mare sterilization
  
• Selective sterilization to control breeding but allow for a good genetic diversity
  
• If we just let them run free, the population would likely take care of itself-survival of the fit
  
• wild horse sterilization
  
• Use tax dollars for wild horses on public lands instead of subsidizing cattle ranchers.
  
• Revise existing adoption policy
  
• regulate the cattle grazing, or no cattle grazing.
  
• More use of Birth Control shots
  
• boost adoption efforts, and selective steralization if additional controls are needed
  
• STERILIZATION
  
• Unless they can come up with some kind of feasible birth control.
  
• contraceptives and improved adoption regulations
  
• There really isn’t any other solution. There are too many horses and not enough land and food.
  
• geld and release more of the colts; restrict out of control building which reduces available land.
  
• geld more of the colts; restrict out of control building which reduces available land.
  
• Continue adoptions and leave many of these horses on the range, they are small in number
  
• keep adapting out!
  
• AUCTION
  
• Stop leasing govt. grazing land cheaply to cattle ranchers & let the horses stay where they belong!
  
• sterilization
  
• Easier adoption policies
  
• neutering,
  
• better puplic awareness for adoption
  
• Hold more auctions and sell younger horses, reducing the quantity that can reproduce.
  
• If we are unable to do this on our aging horses, then BLM shouldn’t be able to either.
  
• Adoption, increased funding per tax return
  
• Sterilization to limit reproduction
  
• Catch, geld and release the males.
  
• birth control methods if practical.
  
• move the cattel off gov’t lands, and leave the horses alone
  
• humane slaughter for human oor animal consumption.
  
• lessen the amount of Domestic livestock that is grazing the same land
  
• Gelding most of the stallions may help,euthanizing is unexceptable when we have alternatives!!!
  
• Maybe use available funds to geld the stallions for population control.
  
• more adoptions
  
• THERE ARE MILLIONS OF US WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADOPT BUT WE ARE NOT CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE CENTERS.
  
• castrate males
  
• these animals have novalue, BRING BACK SLAUGHTER PLEASE, save the horse industry
  
• Send them to other reserves in the US and other countrys
  
• relocation to unpopulated mountainous region, They still exsist!
  
• sterilazition of both mares and colts/stallions
  
• Geld the stallions; birth control for the mares
  
• rewark the tax code to allow mustangs to be deductable to the average horse lover.
  
• Geld the males instead of euthanizing
  
• gelding and birth control
  
• If they can euthanize them, (the horses) then they (the government) can spay and or neuter them.
  
• or slaughtered for food.
  
• sterilizing selected stallions to keep the population down
  
• castrating some stallions perhaps? I think our overuse of the land is important.
  
• return them to the wild. there is plenty of space for them to roam.
  
• If adoption or enough ranches can’t be found, spay the mares!
  
• gelding colts
  
• Leave more on the range – stop favoring cattle over wild horses!
  
• sterilization
  
• Increase their grazing areas by decreasing the amount of land given to cattle.
  
• Stop the round-ups. Open up more land for these horses to roam. Restrict ranchers use of public land
  
• charge less to adopt, they’re wild and even registered horses are not going for much these days
  
• It’a also a quality of life issue for the horses, but there’s got to be an alternative to death.
  
• Money shld be spent on sterilization of studs, female contraception.
  
• Subsidize potential owners so more can afford to rescue a wild horse.
  
• Birth Control- Sterilization
  
• should either be gelded or broken to be sold
  
• neutering to prevent reproduction
  
• adoption
  
• Gelding a number of the stallions to control herd numbers
  
• Get more people involved by advertising through the media. .
  
• adoption
  
• adoption
  
• Gelding and mare care
  
• Birth control. They do it with the wild horses of Assateague
  
• adoption
  
• give them to people who are willing to give them a home
  
• make a wild habitat sanctuary area for them to live.
  
• Send WH to slaughter and use the money to support the herds that exist through birth control
  
• sterilization, better PR and more work for adoption
  
• sterlization
  
• Castration, lower selling prices, fewer cattle competing for range
  
• 100% rescue
  
• Birth control for the mares.
  
• there must be a drug that can be fed or administered to wild ranging mares to sterilize.
  
• adopt them out for more money
  
• Catch and geld the stallions. Only allow the best of the best to reproduce, manage the nubmers that
  
• ASsign a percentage of total herd to be given birthcontrol and monitor every few years as to size of
  
• I think there could be some type of birth control for the mares in the wild or geld the studs.
  
• For starters, stop paid lobbyists running the BLM. Slanted question, poor science.
  
• Send them to underdeveloped countries which utilize horses for transportation and agriculture.
  
• relocate them to other areas & geld the undesireable trait stallions
  
• relocation national parks, wildlife preserves. fixing mares.
  
• I’m sorry I have no solutions but the horses deserve better than death just because we can’t share.
  
• Humans should stop proreating & breeding; humans create burden on everyone including horses.
  
• castration of males
  
• if they made it easier to adopt them would be one way
  
• Keep them running free & leave them alone, less housing developments, more room for the wild horse
  
• Move horse to other locations on the range verse a holding facility
  
• perhaps gelding as many stallions as possible, yes expensive but at least you don’t have to dispose
  
• Why not have national parks for them like we do for bison?
  
• Gelding
  
• human birth control and vegetarianism
  
• adoption and auctions advertisements commercials to public interest
  
• Bring back the slaughter houses to put carcasses to use.
  
• Leave them free in designated areas away from ranchers.
  
• birth control
  
• to catch the wild horses and auction them but return the ones that dont get sold to the wild
  
• It is better than slaughter
  
• Let’s geld all the stallions but one our two in an area.
  
• gelding the stallions
  
• Castration programmes
  
• I would rather see a horse humanely euthanized than live a life of ill treatment or starvation.!
  
• Use BLM $ to employ professional trainers & train horses so they have a better chance to be adopted.
  
• leave them alone
  
• Let the puplic now about the situation! A sreility program would be an alternative.
  
• Stop leasing land to cattle ranchers. That land was reserved for Americas wild horses.
  
• slaughter for food
  
• adoption as with Mustang Makeover or birth control
  
• Transport some to new locations
  
• Do not send to Mexico to be brutally slaughtered
  
• But, chasing them with a helicopter and shooting them is not humane. What about birth control?
  
• Geld! Geld! Geld!
  
• birth control
  
• birth control should be used, like the ponies on the outer banks of NC
  
• Capture – geld and spay, leave only quality mares and stallions
  
• Non-lethal population control using contraceptive darts to create infertility has been successful!!!
  
• With the help of a little funding private parties would welcome the opportunity to foster.
  
• castation on stallions would be a better solution and moving some to a different location as well,
  
• removal + rehoming of majority of breeding stallions
  
• To relieve the BLM of its duties of killing off Mustangs.
  
• birth control
  
• Cattle? Oil? Land for food?
  
• sterilization
  
• open up more blm land, it is like they don’t have a shortage.
  
• adoption
  
• There should be more publicity about the horses up for adoption or fostering, or a way to transport
  
• Gather some and find homes for them.
  
• Leave them on the range,the strongest will survive and improve the herd,I live in Dayton,Nevada,
  
• Adoption
  
• Some form of limited sterilization
  
• Leave them alone
  
• gelding
  
• Adoption
  
• rather than euthinizing why not use them to feed the hungry
  
• Slaughter
  
• adoption
  
• easier adoptions
  
• Graze less sheep and cattle on public loands. Have farmers pay to graze livestock. Money go to help
  
• sterilization of parts of herd
  
• Gelding Stallions
  
• start with the older, unhealthy horses
  
• Geld more stallions.
  
• More auctions
  
• slaughter
  
• adoption or sterilzation
  
• Contraception. There are already too many mustangs adopted out into unsupervised situations with no
  
• Selective castration would be a more humane option
  
• open up Custer Forest to increase habitat
  
• It is far better then having them starve to death
  
• Adoption programs
  
• Consider GnRH immunocontraceptive “vaccine”, temporary contraceptive used in deer populations.
  
• What type of euthanasia are they considering?
  
• Shooting them IS more humane and cheaper. The slaughter plants should be re-opened.
  
• Open then Horse kill plants and there would bemore people to help
  
• Remove a few of the 4 million cattle and sheep off public lands
  
• effective in-the-wild management
  
• use some kind of birth control. government provide monies to help rescue groups set up shelters
  
• Round up all the stallions they can and geld them…why didn’t anyone else think of that years ago.
  
• sterilization, birth control would be more effective.
  
• Proper handling and management by the BLM. Use of birth control menthods.
  
• castrate/spay – Why do ranchers have priority over wild horses? Stop roundups.
  
• gelding and spaying or birth control hormones
  
• sell them for less money or give them away. but always to commited people with the right conditions.
  
• make it easier for people to adopt them…
  
• BIRTH CONTROL
  
• and feed teh starving people with them!
  
• birth control
  
• Give them to good homes–I mean free!
  
• They want to kill them to empty holding facilities, not to control population.
  
• adoption
  
• Education about over population and lack of feed and land that we have forced these horses into.
  
• Would catching the young stallions and castrating them might help.
  
• no more development and population control for people
  
• Leave them alone. There are NOT the numbers they claim in the wild!!!
  
• controlled breeding, sterilization of selected mares and/or stallions, euthanize sick/injured
  
• sterilization
  
• correct and strick management
  
• Get the BLM out and have an org. that understands herd management,gene pool dilution, etc. in charge
  
• birth control
  
• CONTRIBUTE AND DONATE AREA FOR THEM- BELIEF IS THAT THEIR NUMBERS ARE NOT OUT OF CONTROL!!
  
• Slaughter
  
• 1. Stop breeding, both backyard and within the so-called racing and show “industries”.
  
• Limit commercial cattle/sheep grazing
  
• Limit cows and sheep from grazing on the horses range. Let them have their fair share of the land!
  
• Leave Them To Hell ALONE.
  
• reproduction control
  
• Get horse slaughter plants open in US. Send excess horses to kill & BLM use money for budget!
  
• Capture and relocate or auction .
  
• New BLM management***Stop giving federal funds to countries that don’t appreciate us. Use funds here
  
• Stop leasing land to the cattlemen.
  
• relocate some of the horses to other parts of the country, Castrate some of the males.
  
• those in opposition to this email Henri_Bisson@blm.gov to let him know altermatives!
  
• REDUCE THE PRICE/ RESTRICTIONS ON ADOPTIONS, fencing for example.that stops me from adopting.
  
• Sometimes the governement needs to leave their nose out of it and let things work themselves out
  
• Birth Control
  
• gelding
  
• adoption!!
  
• Hold benefits to fund them
  
• use drugs to stop the cycling of mares for a few years
  
• Man needs to quit managing and let nature take its coarse with easier adoptions
  
• I should say sometimes. How about castration of the males then turn them back out
  
• birth control, sterilization
  
• Find homes for them.
  
• preservation of the herd/castration
  
• Adoption & ship to new, safe land. More public awareness for funding.
  
• The PROBLEM is the free/cheap access to PUBLIC grazing lands by for-profit ranchers.
  
• Sadly yes as population effects the enviroment and the health of the horses themselves
  
• stop development and leave range land open, it is the horses heirtage.
  
• Instead adoption and birth control should be used. Both are used on the wild ponies on the East Coa
  
• Unadoptable horses could be sold for food consumption in other countries to help supplement budget
  
• but every attempt should be made to find homes first
  
• Fed. $ for assisted therapy centers for rehab youth/adults use natural horsemanship
  
• Make it easier for people who care, to be able to adopt!
  
• keep two stallions, fix the rest. Put stallions with the herd every 7 or 10 yrs.
  
• maintain federal land and/or not for profit funded wild horse sanctuary acreage
  
• Castration round ups
  
• remove the owned cattle and let the mustangs have the range it was theres
  
• birth control and increase their range area
  
• Find other remote land for some relocation and let nature take it’s course
  
• Some form of contraception.
  
• The govt should charge higher fees for cattle to graze and use the extra funds to support the horses
  
• catch and geld as many as possible, Remove the horses from the herd that may be adoptable.
  
• Castrate the young colts. Or is killing easier!!!
  
• Create a wild Horse Sanctuary
  
• Cateration
  
• Sell to slaughter houses. Better than killing them on the range to rot!
  
• Adoption
  
• They must be controlled
  
• Small scale euthanasia with expert help followed by a larger scale adoption of ready foals.
  
• Castrate some of the stallions and stop leasing the land to cattle
  
• cull the stallions and geld, adoption, sales, follow Assateaque, Chincoteaque programs
  
• get some of the cattle off the land. After all, regardless of method, the horses were here first.
  
• More wild horse education. Many people think that the wild horse cannot be trained to be a safe hor
  
• inject mares with hormone, like Assateague Island or give horses more room, less for cattle
  
• send the meat to Africa and other countries where people are starving!
  
• Just not enough homes to house all unwanted horses…controlled breeding..?
  
• Like every thing els in this country if its a work just toss it out!
  
• Moving excess horses to another range or some sort of managing birth control
  
• adoption, relocation, fundraisers
  
• no, never, not ever – why not try gelding or spaying?
  
• adopt – start horses in basics of training
  
• switch from cars to horses
  
• For one, I have written many letters to the BLM and Wild Mustang Adoption sites with NO response!
  
• BIRTH CONTROL
  
• rounding up foals and gelding all males!
  
• Don’t think there is one.
  
• Geld stallions or spay mares
  
• Adoption; Gelding
  
• remove cattle & sheep from public lands & geld the stallions
  
• Mustangs are wonderful horses. Money could be better spent in training them & educating public.
  
• humane slaughter for meat to feed the growing numbers of the poor. Many ate horse during WWII
  
• Adoption
  
• capturing, gelding, healing and releasing a couple of generations. Cheaper than holding facilities
  
• Control the human population and leave the horses alone
  
• Geld the stallions
  
• Breeding PERMITS & limiting the number of breedings per STALLION. Some stallions are WAY overbred!
  
• Adoption
  
• reproductive management
  
• gelding most of the stallions
  
• release back to wild
  
• Adopt them out and/or geld some
  
• adoption/government support ($$$)
  
• More adoption incentive
  
• Sterilization
  
• Spay and Geld some of those horses and turn them back out. Let vet students learn on those horses.
  
• Implanted Sterility hormones if possible
  
• gelding, holding during recovery period, then back to herd. same as feral cat deal. fix, vacc .
  
• Euthanasia is preferable to lax adoption policies and subsequent neglect.
  
• Rounding up and castrating as many yound colts as possible, then returning them to the herd.
  
• do a better job of rounding up stallions,geld them and find them homes
  
• selling off new colts at 3 months of age so they will grow up tame this makes for a good helthy hors
  
• Leave them alone. There is not too many of them. Stop cattle grazing instead.
  
• It was their land long before it was ours
  
• Place animals that you can, and sterilize and return those that cannot be placed.
  
• partnering with rescue groups and mags like The Horse for publicity for adoption
  
• histerectomy
  
• trap and neuter like feral cats
  
• birth control
  
• If possible geld the stallions,surely there is a way to cut down the population.
  
• There are no viable alternatives.
  
• We have people turning Reg. show horses for pennies, feed and hay are too much for alot of people.
  
• wild horse sanctuaries, possible placements in zoos and better adoption efforts.
  
• Gov has already stripped away lands alloted for them, reduced their #’s far below wht the 71 Act gav
  
• I’d rather not but would prefer it to possibly starving ,prisions that train are a great method
  
• turn them back out where they came from. the BLM is controlled by lobbyist of greedy ranchers.
  
• Geld some of the males
  
• sterilization
  
• NO! What a stupid solution. Charge the ranchers a wild horse maintence fee for using their land.
  
• Allowing more habitat, not federal grazing, adoption, birth controlt
  
• They should be humanely slaughtered and their bodies utilized.
  
• Continue the adoptions, geld the colts and euthanize those too old to survive in the wild.
  
• yearly clearance sale
  
• o you bump of aged humans because there are too many? Too many for WHAT? Let nature take it’s cours
  
• Work on useable birth control
  
• Allow them to be used to feed starving people. Use them to feed meat eating animals in zoos.
  
• they should just leave them alone till they get higher numbers.
  
• Geld the older stallions and find a way to make some of the older mares infertile.
  
• birth control, and giving people an option to donate on their tax returns to help support the horses
  
• birth control
  
• gelding and spaying
  
• some type of birth control
  
• Stop incrouching on their land
  
• Euthanized is better than stuck in concentration camps with all their freedoms taken away.
  
• Return the land to the horses that was originally designated for them
  
• leave them alone
  
• Neutering and release
  
• castration
  
• change adoption policies, make it more attractive to private facilities to provide management care
  
• Keep federal lands for wild horses, cattle/sheep ranchers use personal land,wild horses came first
  
• Geld the male horses for a few years until there are less foals on the ground.
  
• Teams of volunteer wranglers, vets, vet techs should start gelding colts.
  
• spaying the mares
  
• adopt these horses out let the government find people who will adopt these horses were here beforeus
  
• control the private cattle herds on public land so the horses have more forage.
  
• Increase BLM budget
  
• Is it viable to use birth control for the mares? It would be far worse to see them starve.
  
• Hey, humans the HORSES were here FIRST !!!
  
• Catch the stallions and geld them.
  
• Beef is bad for America, bad as food, bad for environ, bad for wild horses. Remove cattle not horses
  
• They need to lower their restrictions on people who have many horses and a lot of land.
  
• sterilization/birth control
  
• fix the heard
  
• GELD THE STALLIONS
  
• more limits on allowed usage of domesticated animals.
  
• sold for meat
  
• If we can feed ALL Illegals, we can feed our Horses!
  
• why should that be an answer???
  
• The BLM needs a complete overhaul and get out of the pockets of the cattlemen. Why tell the real sto
  
• castration, chemical (for breeders) & physical (for unsuitables)
  
• more land for horses,less land for cattle.
  
• Wild horses could be adoptedout once a year to the public
  
• Buy the grazing rights for the Horses instead
  
• For other wild animals they are given forms of long term birh control.
  
• Could they target the studs to go to the holding facilities?
  
• no cattle, no sheep, no big business; selective birth control
  
• Do not make adopting them out so difficult
  
• Gelding 90% of stallions. Euthanizing unsound horses. Make adoption easier.
  
• A SELECTIVE euthanization policy for old/unsound, etc. horses makes sense.
  
• Offer more adoptions, but don’t just kill them.
  
• Catch and hold silent auctions, or casterate a FEW stallions
  
• Birth control implants, spaying a portion of mares every year.
  
• get cattle off blm land. leave it for horses.
  
• castration of some of the stallions
  
• remove more cattle from the range – it’s public ground
  
• Subdivide the herds into smaller groups and have each state adopt a group to live on the state lands
  
• Euthanize the ones in holding facilities. More $ for management, and space for quality animals.
  
• leave them alone!!!!!!!!!
  
• capture and castration?
  
• birth control
  
• sell the unadoptable for meat the money could be used to support the good ones and improve rangeland
  
• go to the PUBLIC..tell the story of euthanasia and why…they will donate..people love horses….
  
• The only solution is to stop the BLM from obvious wild horse mis-management.
  
• More pr needs to be done on the advantages of the wild horses as horses .
  
• Remove cattle from the horses’ ranges
  
• Sterilize the stallions
  
• They have as much right there as privately owned cattle. Let them stay!
  
• get over-the-road trucking companies to volunteer transportation to get the horses to new owners
  
• less restrictions for adoption to good homes
  
• more $ from sheep cattle grazing land use birth control in mustangs
  
• birth control measures
  
• gelding the stallions and only keeping the older ones and a few younger ones for populating later on
  
• birth control; stop letting cattle ranchers use public lands for little or no cost
  
• Developing feasible birth control.
  
• gelding !!!!!!!
  
• HUMANELY!!!!
  
• Suspend all BLM roundups until policy can be revamped.
  
• Well broke saddle horses are hard to find homes for right now. Something needs to be done.
  
• If they’re only euthanizing the older and weaker horses, that would be more acceptable
  
• Instead of simply holding all horses in a holding pen indefinitely geld the stallions.
  
• gelding/birth control
  
• give them back their land, no more big game hunters or cattle taking away from the wild horses.
  
• neuter or birthcontrol
  
• Its a much better option than slaughter, disease, or no forage
  
• give everyone a chance to buy them at a cost that people can aford.
  
• give them to PETA
  
• more aggrssive adoption practices
  
• Get the idiots out of their ‘ivory towers’ that passed the anti-slaughter legislation & get their $
  
• Better-slaughter to feed untold no#s hungry people. Cut taxpayer drain, do something practical.
  
• sterilization of all males
  
• What’s wrong with adoption?
  
• geld stallions or birth control for mares or don’t give away so much public land to ranchers for fre
  
• Gelding some of the stallions,same with mares,more adoption locations
  
• Try to adopt them out if possible but DO NOT KILL THEM!! These horses are our American Icons..
  
• if it was the same probleme with the man ,should we euthanize them!stop manipulation of the earth.
  
• geld and spay the mares, expensive for the mares but cheaper than millions in care.
  
• Slaughter
  
• better overall mgmt. spay, castrate, don’t pay farmers to not plant hay crops, possible food source
  
• brith control methods
  
• ABSOLUTLY NOT!!!!
  
• I would geld all the stallions I could catch
  
• Fertility control (selective castration of stallions, spaying mares); better promotion of sales
  
• gelding stallions
  
• gelding young colts would reduce the population. No killing!!!
  
• let the animal rights groups support them
  
• Why isn’t there more sterilization of the herd so that breeding is reduced to a maintance level?
  
• Spaying the mares and gelding the stallions
  
• Maybe sterilize the stallions
  
• make rational requirements for adopting wild horses.
  
• holistic approach- support prey/predator balance in the ecosystem
  
• processed for dog food, cat food, etc
  
• get rid of the cattle and sheep and put the horses back where they belong
  
• monitored adoptions
  
• Methods of birth control should be used
  
• castration
  
• at 1 time there was a million horses running free in this country. I say leave them alone .
  
• castration
  
• Increase the low fees now charged to ranchers for leasing public lands
  
• Those herds should be regularly culled. Very few captured or held–it is cruel.
  
• Managed breeding
  
• gelding & spaying
  
• geld any stallion that does not have good enough conformation to pass on to offspring.
  
• Get private cattle off public land, compare #’s
  
• meeting with rescues and government to find a solution
  
• Slaughter
  
• Sell horses 10 yrs old and up in holding facilities to zoos to feed carnivores.
  
• contract w individuals to care for and place 4-6 horses each, start training. BLM sales aren’t frequ
  
• better mngmt, gelding, etc.
  
• Leave them in the wild and to hell with the sheep and cattle ranchers.
  
• castrate the male horses, or sterilze some females. To kill them in good health is just unfair to th
  
• GELD THE MAJORITY OF STUDS – ALOT CHEAPER THAN ‘HOLDING’ FACILITIES. USE A SPECIAL BRAND TO SEE DIFF
  
• Anything else
  
• slaughter for human consumption
  
• geld the stallons!
  
• Reduce management and let nature take its course. Get the cattle out of their areas.
  
• Reproduction controls in herd management makes the most logic.
  
• Send more into training programs, prisons, challenged youth, etc…also gelding stallions would help
  
• birth control
  
• training and adoption make adaption easier for all…location…….
  
• i think that the horses that sont get adopted out sould be put back into the wild!!!
  
• there are many horses in rescue facilities that are unusable. Replace them with the wild ones.
  
• Charge the Gov.Land Leasees a Preservation Fee, Preserve American Wild Horse Heritage.
  
• make adoption requirements more sensible and less intimidating. I’d love to adopt.
  
• Geld the weaker Stallions, More acess to good horses thru adoption
  
• Allow humane regulated slaughter in the US
  
• adoptions, neutering or birth control methods
  
• The horses could be tranquilized to facilitate relocation to another region of the country.
  
• Modifying the adoption requirements such as how tall the paddock must be & offer incentives
  
• Gelding
  
• HMAs need to stop shrinking due to outside pressures and the folks looking to make the almighty $
  
• Euthanization is better than starvation and complete decimation of the range.
  
• Birth control in feed!!!
  
• gelding and spaying and broad range education on soil preservation practices from people first
  
• Yes, but only by qualified veterinarians!!!
  
• spay and geld ten release tem back into the heard
  
• gelding
  
• Find some sort of birthcontrol
  
• No easy answer, but they have to do a better job to have them adopted.
  
• Geld a percentage of the stallions if necessary & auction to reputable owners
  
• more efficient adoption programs
  
• I wish I knew of an effective solution.
  
• Unfortunately we’ve come to a hard decision. With all the
  
• adoption
  
• Geld all the colts, and any of the older ones that probably would not have a chance to be adopted.
  
• Dont just adopt the horses out to the long trim homes. Short trims homes can help just as much!
  
• National and State Parks – as imprtant as wolves, bison, elk
  
• try gelding some of the stalllions and end up with ony 1 to 3 studsdnt get rid of them comp. though
  
• easier to find good homes
  
• send them to slaughter at least they would be used instead of rotting in the ground.
  
• FORCE HSUS TO GIVE UP SOME OF THEIR “DONATIONS”, THEY PROVIDE NO SUPPOR