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Pasture Farm

  • Joined Aug 2011
  • East Lincolnshire
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Dead lamb
« on: April 04, 2013, 08:27:59 pm »
Just walked the fields to find a lamb with all its innards eaten    .....and a ewe with a gashed leg.Now i can't make my mind up if this is a fox or a dog. The lambs are between 3 and 6 weeks old now  alert and agile lots of them in a field full of full grown protective mothers.......angry and saddened   as if lambing isn't traumatic enough :rant: ....only walked the fields at 3.30  and at 8 it's done
« Last Edit: April 04, 2013, 08:31:06 pm by Pasture Farm »

twizzel

  • Joined Apr 2012
Re: Dead lamb
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2013, 08:31:41 pm »
:( such a shame. I would have thought it could be a fox, or possibly a badger especially if it was dusk when it happened. Is your field near a footpath? I'd be surprised if it was a dog but I suppose it could have been. Were your other ewes and lambs ok?

Fosterlambfarm

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Muirkirk
Re: Dead lamb
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2013, 08:37:05 pm »
I'd have thought it would be a fox or badger as a dog would most likely go for as many as possible jus to chase them. Such a shame tho, seen it happening up my way a few times, as if difficult lambings and all those hours arent enougj
C mccrossan, foster lamb farm

goosepimple

  • Joined May 2010
  • nr Lauder, Scottish Borders
Re: Dead lamb
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2013, 08:49:25 pm »
Och that's bad news PF, sorry for you and them.  It's a worry too, hope you find the culprit.  :fc:
registered soay, castlemilk moorit  and north ronaldsay sheep, pygmy goats, steinbacher geese, muscovy ducks, various hens, lots of visiting mallards, a naughty border collie, a puss and a couple of guinea pigs

SteveHants

  • Joined Aug 2011
Re: Dead lamb
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2013, 01:08:12 am »
Sounds to me like the lamb went down of something ad then badgers got it, eating them from the inside out is classic badger.

MrsJ

  • Joined Jan 2009
Re: Dead lamb
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2013, 06:26:09 am »
How sad.  Hope you find out what did it so you can avoid it happening again.
We were notified that 7 of the hunt dogs were on the loose from the kennels just up the road from us yesterday.  We spent an anxious few hours until we heard that they were all accounted for.  Not quite sure what we would have done if they'd got into the field.

 

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