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Given the location that may be whats killing them then. Although i'm certain there are fox in the area as i put one up the other day. If it is the fox, the pigs are def having a good munch on them. b*****ds.

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lambs can drop dead for no apparent reason as well, badgers will take newborns but they wont turn down carrion either, fox is the same.

 

 

 

Sad to say Gem, when i first found the poor b*****d he was still alive. Didn't really want to mention it, but thats how i know it wasn't carrion.

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lambs can drop dead for no apparent reason as well, badgers will take newborns but they wont turn down carrion either, fox is the same.

 

 

 

Sad to say Gem, when i first found the poor b*****d he was still alive. Didn't really want to mention it, but thats how i know it wasn't carrion.

 

 

must have been something wrong with him, bloat perhaps? going by the pic he looks to be about a month old but its hard to tell without seeing it in the flesh, id have given it the knock on the head very fast if there was no gun nearby, the ewe should have been nearby to drive the predator away unless the flock forgot him?

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Yer when i found him him this morning i didn't even have a knife. Bit difficult dispatching a lamb that size cleanly and humanly by hand. Took the photo this eve, having a wander looking for earths and more had been eaten from the back end, and he had been dragged a foot further into the cover. The flock are spread over a big piece of very poorly managed rough open pasture and woodland, the flock are flighty as feck and i seem to find a lot of lambs wandering on their own there. My guess is foxy grabbed him early, got him down but didnt kill him, for some reason left, then stripey had a munch, and then i found him, poor wee b*****d, must have been horrible. You can't go 100 yrds there without falling down a big fecking hole. :icon_eek:

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Yer when i found him him this morning i didn't even have a knife. Bit difficult dispatching a lamb that size cleanly and humanly by hand. Took the photo this eve, having a wander looking for earths and more had been eaten from the back end, and he had been dragged a foot further into the cover. The flock are spread over a big piece of very poorly managed rough open pasture and woodland, the flock are flighty as feck and i seem to find a lot of lambs wandering on their own there. My guess is foxy grabbed him early, got him down but didnt kill him, for some reason left, then stripey had a munch, and then i found him, poor wee b*****d, must have been horrible. You can't go 100 yrds there without falling down a big fecking hole. :icon_eek:

be carefull what you say on here bud after last nights episode not only do we have unwanted guests but members that

pass on info :hmm:

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seen a clip on youtube of a badger scaring fox away from a kill , probably what it was then .

 

you in a high TB area? i know it has no bearing but might be worth to see if your local cattle farmer has put a report in for TB, you might fall in the bracket if they decide to bring the cull in

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Yer when i found him him this morning i didn't even have a knife. Bit difficult dispatching a lamb that size cleanly and humanly by hand. Took the photo this eve, having a wander looking for earths and more had been eaten from the back end, and he had been dragged a foot further into the cover. The flock are spread over a big piece of very poorly managed rough open pasture and woodland, the flock are flighty as feck and i seem to find a lot of lambs wandering on their own there. My guess is foxy grabbed him early, got him down but didnt kill him, for some reason left, then stripey had a munch, and then i found him, poor wee b*****d, must have been horrible. You can't go 100 yrds there without falling down a big fecking hole. :icon_eek:

be carefull what you say on here bud after last nights episode not only do we have unwanted guests but members that

pass on info :hmm:

 

 

S'alright mate, i'm not going anywhere near anywhere i shouldnt or doing anything i shouldnt be, only culprit that would get dealt with would be foxy and in a legal manner. The others are just a f*****g menace, but they are all over the shop, and that's not a local thing, south wales is sinking into the ground. Cheers for the heads up though :thumbs:

 

Chimp - Aye mate there is TB about, not too bad, but it had been in the past. :thumbdown:

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