{"id":85407,"date":"2026-04-07T21:30:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.saltriverwildhorsemanagementgroup.org\/?p=85407"},"modified":"2026-04-17T21:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:19:02","slug":"we-get-a-lot-of-questions-about-our-fertility-control-program-and-why-we-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.saltriverwildhorsemanagementgroup.org\/?p=85407","title":{"rendered":"We get a lot of questions about our fertility control program, and why we do it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reality is that we would have had 1000 Salt River wild horses today, if we had not started darting mares with PZP in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>If the 274 horses we have today is too many according to the government, then what do you think would have happened with 1000?<\/p>\n<p>We have prevented the horses a lot of suffering, we saved taxpayers a lot of money, and saved the public a lot of anguish of seeing them removed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F974136075564150%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=267&amp;t=0\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for watching this explanation by Simone Netherlands, with the help of 109 Breyer foals!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reality is that we would have had 1000 Salt River wild horses today, if we had not started darting mares with PZP in 2018.","protected":false},"author":675,"featured_media":28863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,74],"tags":[210,155,211,154,76,146,212,151],"class_list":["post-85407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-updates","tag-fertility-control","tag-i-stand-with-wild-horses","tag-pzp-for-wild-horses","tag-salt-river-horses","tag-salt-river-wild-horses","tag-srwhmg","tag-stop-the-roundups","tag-wild-horses"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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