The Bureau of Land Management has a team of people looking for answers as to why dozens of horses have died in captivity at the Cañon City Wild Horse and Burro Facility.
since the start of the weekend from a mysterious illness causing apparent respiratory and neurological effects.An independent and a federal veterinarian are on-site as well as academic experts are looking for a cause.
More than 2,500 horses are currently kept at the facility. The illness became apparent late last week among horses mostly gathered from the West Douglas area west of Meeker in Western Colorado. In addition, some of the ill horses were gathered in the Sand Wash Basin to the north in northwest Colorado.They have been at the facility since late last summer. The horses from the West Douglas area says Hall, were not in great shape when they came in.
They don’t know how the disease may have gotten into the herd, but as they separate sick animals, they are trying to isolate exposure. “We’re not sure how effective that will be over the long haul, and we started a voluntary quarantine of the entire facility to do whatever we could to keep this from spreading beyond the Cañon City facility.”“There seems to be a respiratory component and also a neurological component,” said Hall.
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