Author Topic: Do crows kill lambs? (Read 20183 times)

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #15 on:** November 28, 2013, 06:25:41 pm »

Badgers certainly take infirm lambs - the inside-out skin is indicative of badger.

As to whether they take newborns...

Marches Farmer · « **Reply #16 on:** November 28, 2013, 06:53:29 pm »

Yes badgers take lambs. Crows and ravens will peck out the eyes, tongue, umbilicus and anus of a first-born twin while the dam is off having the second one.

If you're shooting crows always go into the hide with two people, wait a few minutes then one person leaves. Fortunately crows can't count! Look around the field and you'll always see one crow on sentry duty, generally high up in a big tree. They take it in turns through the day - to both spot danger and that lambing or cast ewe already mentioned.

Dougal · « **Reply #17 on:** November 28, 2013, 11:18:15 pm »

I've seen me losing strong single lambs to the badger at anything up to three weeks old! The Kites will make a fair meal out of a lambing park not to mention the ravens, gulls and a thousand and one other protected verminous critters that quietly sink the record lambing!
All this I can deal with, it happens and all these creatures have their own young to feed, the annoying bit is being told by someone that has never been in a lambing park in their life that it doesn't happen like that!!!