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First Colt of 2017 Named “Ducey”

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First Colt of 2017 Named “Ducey”

February 5, 2017
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First wild horse baby of 2017 is named after Governor Doug Ducey

The Salt River Wild Horse Management Group (SRWHMG)  announced that the first colt of the year has been born and was named “Ducey” in honor of the Governor of Arizona. Governor Doug Ducey has played a leading role in saving the Salt River wild horses and the Governor himself listed protecting the horses as one of his six major accomplishments of the year 2016.

The group released adorable video footage of little Ducey standing up for the very first time. The footage was captured by  SRWHMG volunteers (thank you Kari and Keith)  who were monitoring the pair to make sure they were ok.

The Salt River Wild Horse Management Group kindly asks visitors to stay a respectful 40 foot distance away from newborns and their protective moms, as they can be particularly vulnerable to public interference and babies can become abandoned. The group has had to rescue an abandoned newborn before.

As appreciation for the Governor’s support and also to ask for his continued commitment, the SRWHMG hopes to personally present a beautiful canvas print of baby Ducey this week.

“Without Governor Ducey’s support for the thousands of citizens who stood up for the Salt River wild horses when the federal government threatened to round them up, little Ducey might not have been born wild and free this year,” said Simone Netherlands, president of the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group. “We hope to work closely with the Governor to implement a public/private partnership for the humane management of this cherished wild horse population so that little Ducey can grow up wild and free.”

Last year, the Arizona legislature passesalt river wild horse managementd the Salt River Horses Act, to protect the wild horse herd within the Tonto National Forest. Governor Ducey signed the bill into law in May 2016. However, the legislation includes a conditional enactment clause, which requires the state to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Forest Service for the management of the horses in order for the law to take effect.

Therefore until the MOU is developed and signed, the horses are not protected. The SRWHMG is anxious to work together with the State and the Forest Service to  implement a humane birth control program to stabilize population growth and prevent future removals of horses from their home on the Salt River.

Photo by SRWHMG photographer David Stallings.

More News Coverage

http://www.kvoa.com/story/34414506/first-wild-horse-baby-of-2017-is-born

http://www.azfamily.com/story/34417094/wild-horse-named-after-gov-ducey


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Hay! We need your help.
Every year around this time, the forest starts to get green again and provides new forage for the wild horses. However this year, the horses have no forage left to eat, and there is no end in sight to this relentless drought.

Unfortunately the only way to keep them healthy is to keep our feed program going. It is a huge project, we distribute an incredible 240 bales per week over 4 different feed stations, and every three weeks we are out of hay again! We simply cannot keep this up without your help.

One bale of weedfree alfalfa costs $15 dollars and feeds one family band of Salt River wild horses for one day, but there are lots and lots of bands to feed! There are also lots of people who love and enjoy these horses, so if everyone who loves them would would put a little bit of money where their heart is, we can do this! We need $6500 every 3 weeks!

We are not a large organization, but our dedication to these wild horses is unmatched, please join us and you will become part of this important mission.

If you sign up for just one monthly bale of hay for the Salt River wild horses, either here through Facebook, or through our website, we will send you a thank you with a meaningful image of a family band of horses you helped feed. (Please do provide your address so we can send it to you, because Facebook doesn't give that to us.) Your donation is tax-deductable.

The Salt River wild horses are an icon of our American spirit and they deserve to stay in their natural habitat. This is how we do that. Thank you for spreading this call for help!
Click button below or click our website below.
A sincere thank you, SRWHMG.
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Hay! We need your help.
Every year around this time, the forest starts to get green again and provides new forage for the wild horses. However this year, the horses have no forage left to eat, and there is no end in sight to this relentless drought.
Unfortunately the only way to keep them healthy is to keep our feed program going. It is a huge project, we distribute an incredible 240 bales per week over 4 different feed stations, and every three weeks we are out of hay again! We simply cannot keep this up without your help. 
One bale of weedfree alfalfa costs $15 dollars and feeds one family band of Salt River wild horses for one day, but there are lots and lots of bands to feed! There are also lots of people who love and enjoy these horses, so if everyone who loves them would would put a little bit of money where their heart is, we can do this! We need $6500 every 3 weeks! 
We are not a large organization, but our dedication to these wild horses is unmatched, please join us and you will become part of this important mission. 
If you sign up for just one monthly bale of hay for the Salt River wild horses, either here through Facebook, or through our website, we will send you a thank you with a meaningful image of a family band of horses you helped feed. (Please do provide your address so we can send it to you, because Facebook doesnt give that to us.) Your donation is tax-deductable. 
The Salt River wild horses are an icon of our American spirit and they deserve to stay in their natural habitat. This is how we do that. Thank you for spreading this call for help! 
Click button below or click our website below. 
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Just donated for a couple bales of hay. No need to send a card. I was just down at the river yesterday. It really is so bad. I’m praying everyday for rain!💦🙏🏻💦🙏🏻

Thank you for ensuring the wild horses stay healthy!

Donated, from northern IL. Will donate again. Came only once 4 yrs ago and fortunate enough to see them and their Beauty. Coming again this April. Loved the Magnificent Horse since I was born, don't have one tho'. Therefore I thoroughly enjoy these Salt River Horses from my birth state, and will enjoy painting them. So I Believe it is a responsibility I have to help keep them safe. Thanks for all you do.

Donated & sharing. No need for a card! Knowing that the horses are being taken care of is enough for me! 💕

Can’t give much but hope it helps the beautiful ponies ❤️

Thank you for caring for these precious horses ❣️

Donated. Praying to the rain gods!

Can you supply a mailing address to send donations to?

I don’t hav the money..sorry

2 bales no mail needef

💛💛💛done💛💛💛

Donated. Thank you for taking care of all of them.

Prayers and positive vibes for rain!! Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication!! Donated and shared..Keep up the good deeds SRWHMG!! ❤🐴❤🐴

Donated and shared. Will message my address!

We need rain so badly. Donating and sharing

Done. Thanks for the reminder!

Thank you for doing this ❤

Could only donate a little due to unemployment. Bless you for keeping these precious ones alive!

I would like to send a check, where can I send it?

Donated!! 💗🌵💜

Donated

Donated a bale for each of the 16 weeks I will be in AZ this winter. I consider it such an honor to be in their presence and they deserve to have all of us who love them to step up in their time of need. And will continue to donate when needed while back in MI. THANK YOU to all of you for helping to support this precious gift we have in our Salt River Wild horses. ♥️

Donated. I don’t need a thank you card. I know how much you appreciate all donations. I’m just glad I can help!🐴♥️

Donated.

So sad the forest is so dry. Of course I will buy a couple of bales. Donated and shared. I do not need a card so I am not providing my address.

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We are so saddened by the continuous roundup and removal of thousands of wild horses by the Bureau of Land Management all over the country. The loss of their families and their freedom and sometimes their lives,..the cost to the taxpayer,..stuffing them in holding pens and having to feed them for the rest of their lives.. It's just not sustainable, but more so, it is just unnecessarily cruel. Imagine if this was Sarge, or Mick or Cisco losing his family and bashing their heads into the paneling! Or Moonshadow or Soldier running for their lives from a helicopter and being left behind..

All we can say is that we feel very fortunate to have reached great working partnerships with our local State and Federal governments for the humane, responsible and sustainable management of the Salt River wild horses.

Stabilizing their population numbers is what gives them their freedom in perpetuity. Please continue to support our humane management programs and support humane birth control and humane treatment of all wild horses everywhere. If we can be an example at all, we believe that a win-win for everyone IS possible.

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We are so saddened by the continuous roundup and removal of thousands of wild horses by the Bureau of Land Management all over the country. The loss of their families and their freedom and sometimes their lives,..the cost to the taxpayer,..stuffing them in holding pens and having to feed them for the rest of their lives.. Its just not sustainable, but more so, it is just unnecessarily cruel. Imagine if this was Sarge, or Mick or Cisco losing his family and bashing their heads into the paneling! Or Moonshadow or Soldier running for their lives from a helicopter and being left behind..
All we can say is that we feel very fortunate to have reached great working partnerships with our local State and Federal governments for the humane, responsible and sustainable management of the Salt River wild horses. 
Stabilizing their population numbers is what gives them their freedom in perpetuity. Please continue to support our humane management programs and support humane birth control and humane treatment of all wild horses everywhere. If we can be an example at all, we believe that a win-win for everyone IS possible. 
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Oh I do hate these hideous roundups. So very thankful for the difference being made for the Salt River horses.

Someone from SRWHMG needs to send a proposal to Secretary Haaland the second she is confirmed. All of us need to write to her touting this wonderful program. Per advocacy is needed now more than ever with this hopeful opportunity to strive for real change! Do it!

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I hope Deb Haaland is so very different and will support our horses, unlike the current admin. It just breaks my heart. 😥

It makes me so sad how animals are treated. Thank you for helping the salties stay wild and free

I'm so grateful for you guys. It makes be sad beyond words to think of those poor wild horses being rounded up, not knowing what's going on, confined to small spaces, and lots of them losing their families. Horses remember their family members and grieve their losses. Cheers to your group for all you do to help. Wish we could save them all.

Tell us what we need to do to Join forces and make an impact. There's power in numbers.

This breaks my heart to see these horses rounded up 💔

They can’t move them over somewhere else

A new Interior Secretary is about to take over, and I am very hopeful that she reveres the wild horses and will dramatically change how things are done at BLM. BLM, along with other government agencies, need to learn that they work for us, we don't work for them. Using our money and telling us what to do and not to do is not their mission. I will give Ms. Haaland time to settle into her office, but then I will want to know her stance on this issue. I will be writing to her as well. I am so hoping for better things to come with "OUR" wild horses.

Why can’t they funnel a portion of that money to advocates to do fertility control, use another portion to maintain the land. Financially they would still be in front and the horses could live a wild free life with minimal human intervention 😢

Heartbreaking. You are models of how PZP works. Keep up the good fight!

The successful partnership of the AZDA, FS and the SRWHMG, needs to go nationwide. We can clearly see that it works. Humane management for ALL Wild Horses, in their home environment is the moral decision. The BLM needs to take a page from this positive relationship.

Public private partnership works. This needs to be our national goal!

God made us the shepherds of this earth... I feel terrible for those who do not tend well to the Creators flock. Thank you for all your sacrifices and for being great shepherds of the SRWH ...You all are doing gods work and it doesn’t go unnoticed ❤️🙏🏽 🐴 Blessings

Oh how heartbreaking. Can we all write her? Give us an idea as to what to say and where to send it and consider it done!

This is absolutely disgraceful, we have the same issues with our wild brumbies in Australia. Sheep and cows do so much damage to the land and yet more and more of them are encroaching on Government land.

All other herds are killed...they only conceded to the Salt River herds to shut people up.

Hope they can be convinced to try the birth control program. That would be great.

We need to hit Deb Halaand asap w our writings about BLM and their atrocities. She will take office soon and we need, as a collective group, HAVE to begin expressing our desire to see PZP used instead of roundups.

Freedom for these wonderful creatures.

We have seen these beautiful horses in their natural habitants, to me they are so much more beautiful in the wild than on some ranch or holding pens. They were born in the wild,let them live in the wild where nature intended them to be, just saying.

Oh this is simply heartbreaking! 💔💔🐴🐴. Will they release any of them back into the wild? 🙏🏼🤞🏼

Things probly won't be better in Biden admin.

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Sharing a notice directly from us and from the AZDA, as we had 2 horses on Bush hwy yesterday. This was because of a fence that was cut on the south side of Bush Hwy because someone apparently wanted to get into the Bulldogs very badly. Because the horses are completely fenced off of Bush Hwy now, they are also completely fenced onto the road, once they manage to get out of a fence. Please do not cut any fences in the Tonto National Forest, for their safety, and yours. SRWHMG. ... See MoreSee Less

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An high priority and important post. Now more than ever since letting them through the fence means they most likely won’t be able to return to safety.

Thank you for watching out for these wild souls! Shame on "humans" for being thoughtless to satisfy their own 'wants'! :(

Arrrrggggg.

The fences are not easy to repair either. Fence repair comes out of the funds from SRWHMG not the government. This takes vital money away from their care.

Some people just don’t know what the right thing to do is anymore I guess? Disgraceful! They need Jesus more now than ever!

I'm relieved to read that the two horses are safe now.

The people that cut these fences aren't interested in God's creations as mentioned in the above post. They're not interested in the safety of our Wild Horses or the laws of TNF, our city, none of that. They don't care of the danger they place on the public or innocent motorist when they accidentally slam into a horse in the dark of night with their children in the car and someone dies. They don't care! They've proved it over and over again and again and again some more. Lives of people and the laws they make to better their communities DON'T MATTER!! The only importance in their tiny lives is their fun. That's all. Simply put and true. Now if I'm wrong then prove it. Get a gate code or get permission, follow the rules from the Forest service and use the proper gates it's that damn simple. Ever gone home with blood in your mouth from CPR and all over your clothes from some dumb accident that didn't have to happen?! I have. Did you know you can smell blood on yourself for days no matter what you do. So Stop jeopardizing the lives of innocent people and animals of my community. I'm tired. Of YOU!! Just step up and do what's right. Be brave enough to do that. PLEASE FORWARD MY POST TO THOSE WHO NEEDS TO READ IT. Thank you.

Theres no picture because we were too busy getting the horses back to safety behind the fence.

People really do need to stop cutting fences! If there is a fence there it is there for a reason. There are entrances into these areas that are accessible without taking the lazy way and cutting a fence that puts the horses and public in danger.

Two legs can be vile and despicable to other two legs and to the four legs of this world. Too bad whomever cut the fence will never be caught and face punishment!

Wow.. thats an act of pure selfishness. Thank you for getting them back to safety!

Maybe some cameras should be hidden out there. People are too lazy to get the codes to the gates 😢

What’s the odds that the assholes that cut the fence are the same assholes that are killing the horses.... wow forest service I’m no detective I might start looking into that being a possibility, that’s if you are truly going to investigate?

Whoever is cutting these fences, needs to stop for the horses' sake!

What is wrong with people. God bless your work preserving Gods creation and looking out for those be beautiful horses.

Whatever happened to common sense?

I agree with the common sense post.

selfish idiots !!!!

Thoughtless jerks

How sad and selfish 😡

Makes me so mad

Idiots

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