dicehorn 38 Posted September 23, 2010 Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 dicehorn.... You are correct.... thats why the fox runs amock in a field of newborn lambs biting tails and heads, causing infection and suffering and eventually a slow death if not treated, he takes the tail of a few and comes back for the rest. He will come back if he kills a couple of lambs. Take the ewes out of the field and there would be few surviving lambs in the morning. The ewes will defend the lambs and that is why you get wounded lambs, but, they will have difficulty in defending twins one of which is more vunerable especially if in panic it moves away from the ewe. It is the same with Roe deer - it is estimated that a roe doe has only a 40% chance of rearing both her twins in certain areas of the UK due to fox predation, whereas a doe with a single fawn has an % chance. That is why we stalkers sometimes make the mistake when seeing a doe with a single fawn that she is a first year conception. Quote Link to post
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