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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: woollyval on November 23, 2012, 07:06:50 pm

Title: now I've lost one too....
Post by: woollyval on November 23, 2012, 07:06:50 pm
Went to check sheep that are located a few miles up the road and one has vanished...totally! She is a very small 8 month old Ouessant lamb about knee height who has always been less friendly than the rest...not a trace....suspect predators  :-\ Gutted as have just sold whole flock to completely change policy and they leave next week for Cumbria
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Post by: jaykay on November 23, 2012, 07:08:46 pm
Oh no  :-\ I hope she's just hiding and wanders back  :hug:
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Post by: colliewoman on November 23, 2012, 10:23:34 pm
Oh hun :-[  I hope she turns up and had just got herself lost :fc:


Not telling you how to suck eggs, but have you checked any nearby flocks? When one of mine vanished, she mysteriously appeared in a flock  a mile down the road :thinking:
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Post by: Mammyshaz on November 23, 2012, 10:34:27 pm
 Awful for her to go missing like that. Hope she turns up soon  :fc:
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Post by: woollyval on November 24, 2012, 01:09:16 pm
Ah....well ....found a bit of brown soggy woll on ground and some on brambles this morning....looks like she got hooked up and was killed and eaten.....she was a very very tiny person and very aloof.....bit peed off as possibly happened because I didn't check them Thursday as was bailing out house.....but then again with sheep that are away from view anything can happen between checks  :'(
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Post by: jaykay on November 24, 2012, 02:28:49 pm
Oh dear  :-\

You mustn't blame yourself for having to bail out your house - and even if you'd checked them on Thurs, she could have got caught 5 mins after you left. If you wrapped sheep in cotton wool, some of them would manage to choke themselves on it!
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Post by: Mammyshaz on November 24, 2012, 06:15:23 pm
 :bouquet: not a good outcome but nobody is to blame. It's just sheep keeping I guess  :'(
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Post by: Remy on November 24, 2012, 07:05:18 pm
Oh no, so sorry  :bouquet:  , poor little girl  :( - it's the not knowing that makes it worse!  Several of my Gotlands have got totally caught up in brambles as they have such long coats and I've had to cut them free.  This could have conceivably happened to the one I lost, as there was fleece in some thick brambles right near the badger sett.