Lamb Attack

[Tubbylew]

My initial fear if I'm honest was 'human intervention' and then various types feasting on the remains as we have seen this several times in the East of the country from various religious /thieving types but from what you've all suggested my conscience is at ease with it just being prey to nature.
Cheers.

Think you'd just find the skin, and guts left if it were them types.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

My initial fear if I'm honest was 'human intervention' and then various types feasting on the remains as we have seen this several times in the East of the country from various religious /thieving types but from what you've all suggested my conscience is at ease with it just being prey to nature.
Cheers.

If it was human intervention then they won’t get a job as a butcher that’s a fact….
I’d lay vast amounts of money on the fact it’s died because it’s a sheep and the wildlife have seen it as Sunday dinner

 

[Mucker4890]

Think you'd just find the skin, and guts left if it were them types.

You'd be surprised what they take and what they leave - some bits you'd leave normally have religious significance etc.
Anyway, at least the rooks aren't hungry

 

[Lazy Eric]

Maybe over thinking this dead sheep a little too much. Doesn’t really need Quincy to say that sheep has been dead for a couple of days at least and the wildlife has started to tidy it up.

 

[Mucker4890]

Maybe over thinking this dead sheep a little too much. Doesn’t really need Quincy to say that sheep has been dead for a couple of days at least and the wildlife has started to tidy it up.

Yeh F*ck me Eric, we've established all that and if we'd have waited for you the series would have been over...
I'll see if I can fax you a little sooner next time

 

[Estate fencing.]

We used to be on a National trust farm that was over run with vermin, left a dead tup on the yard one night and just a head a spine left in the morning.

 

[Estate fencing.]

some will say 'big cat', and get highly excited

Not by anybody that had had a big cat problem, they are usually found up a tree or stuck over a fence. Cat wouldn’t leave it in the middle of a field.

 

[GAM]

We suffer badly with Ravens, they and Black Back Gulls will strip a Carcass clean in know time..

 

[JockCroft]

Friend in South Wales checked sheep yesterday, all fine.
Went to check this morning, one missing.
Went to look for it and found this:
What could have done this ?

Just wait till your newly released Sea Eagles arrive. They take the lamb, but I am told only live ones.

 

[neilo]

Just wait till your newly released Sea Eagles arrive. They take the lamb, but I am told only live ones.

That can't be right. @Danllan says they're very welcome.

 

[neilo]

We used to be on a National trust farm that was over run with vermin, left a dead tup on the yard one night and just a head a spine left in the morning.

Takes up less room in the dead box, where the collection is charged by weight.

 

[Danllan]

That can't be right. @Danllan says they're very welcome.

Welcome here, for sure; but not in subsidised numbers, only at their natural balance point.

I've no problem with culling predators / vermin - including badgers, if it were legal - when there are too many in a given area. And I've no problem with former wrongs being righted, and wiping out our native fauna certainly counts as a wrong. Bring them back, let a balance be reached and leave it at that. No problem with decent and quick compensation for genuine stock losses either.

 

[Mucker4890]

Not by anybody that had had a big cat problem, they are usually found up a tree or stuck over a fence. Cat wouldn’t leave it in the middle of a

Just wait till your newly released Sea Eagles arrive. They take the lamb, but I am told only live ones.

They won't attack livestock or endangered species.
Chris 'Paid agenda' Packham said so...

 

[JockCroft]

They won't attack livestock or endangered species.
Chris 'Paid agenda' Packham said so...

Would Mr Packham prove his opinion.
I would suggest he uses an old Viking method. Have his friends peg him down on a hillside ( That is 4 pegs roping feet and hands) then walk away and leave nature to enjoy the peace and quiet for a couple of hours. Want to educate the man not kill him.

 

[Mucker4890]

Would Mr Packham prove his opinion.
I would suggest he uses an old Viking method. Have his friends peg him down on a hillside ( That is 4 pegs roping feet and hands) then walk away and leave nature to enjoy the peace and quiet for a couple of hours. Want to educate the man

Would Mr Packham prove his opinion.
I would suggest he uses an old Viking method. Have his friends peg him down on a hillside ( That is 4 pegs roping feet and hands) then walk away and leave nature to enjoy the peace and quiet for a couple of hours. Want to educate the man not kill him.

The vikings never did anything of the sort.

It was 24 hours...

 

[Guiggs]

Puma

 

[Mucker4890]

Puma

240 CVX ?

 

[JockCroft]

The vikings never did anything of the sort.

It was 24 hours...

That was the "Ravens Court". Shirt riped open and a knife drawn down the chest to draw blood.

Legend has it that very few were found "Not Guilty".