Dorset decapitated lambs

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How bleady sick can people be? Or is witch craft alive and well in Dorset just like Dartmoor? ( sister an law lives that way!:facepalm:)
 

Al R

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Found 5 one morning in a field years ago all with heads missing. The next day doing a farm tour with 40 inner city 10year olds and from the other end of the field we all saw a badger behind a ewe giving birth waiting for the lambs to come out and then it took its head off and ran like a trophy kill.
 

Wink

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Found 5 one morning in a field years ago all with heads missing. The next day doing a farm tour with 40 inner city 10year olds and from the other end of the field we all saw a badger behind a ewe giving birth waiting for the lambs to come out and then it took its head off and ran like a trophy kill.
That would be my thought as well that a badger had done this. How come there are so many of these being posted now thinking that a human slasher is going around?
 

Dry Rot

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That would be my thought as well that a badger had done this. How come there are so many of these being posted now thinking that a human slasher is going around?

Very good question! I don't have much experoience of badgers but from what I've read they tend to specialise, which is not unusual for predators. They discover an easy way to get a meal and then keep repeating it.

Remember Blue Tits and those old tinfoil covered milk bottles? Once one learnt the trick of pecking the tops off to get at the cream, the behaviour was passed on. Some apparently even waited for the milkman! I think it's called social learning. Expect increasing numbers of badgers learning how to get an easy meal.
 
Last year there were lambs being found shot dead in the fields. Did anyone ever hear any more information on that mystery? Calibre of projectiles? Or information on culprits?

Once, whilst working on a North West Wales beach, I cam across a headless shell-duck and was informed that peregrine falcons come in for the attack so fast they often take the heads off their prey.
 

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