The Hunter Valley Brumby Association has described a cull of feral horses at the Singleton Army Base as a massacre.
Official figures have now been released from the aerial cull last December.
Fairfax reports a contractor killed 235 horses in the space of 7-and-a-half hours at a rate of 31 per hour.
The Association is questioning whether the cull was carried out humanely, saying it's unlikely the marksman would've been able to get a clean shot into every horse from a moving target and whether it was possible to exclude pregnant mares from the cull as was originally promised.
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| Hunter Valley Brumby Association President Kath Massey With A Foal Rescued From The Singleton Army Base Picture: The Land |
