Birds kill 200 lambs on a single Isle of Wight farm

Savage93

Birds kill 200 lambs on a single Isle of Wight farm.

scary for farmers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaMa1WHZOUs&t=15s

oldgit1897

I wonder what Packham would say about that ?

Birdnuts

Crows can be a pain at lambing time all right - but this seems a very extreme case. Suprised the farmer didn't lamb indoors more given the scale of the claimed losses. I trap hoodies all year round on my place in the west - some still around but have escaped any lamb losses for the last few years. The foxes are a different story as I'm the only one still doing a bit of lamping locally:(

grassroot1

Birdnuts wrote: »

Crows can be a pain at lambing time all right - but this seems a very extreme case. Suprised the farmer didn't lamb indoors more given the scale of the claimed losses. I trap hoodies all year round on my place in the west - some still around but have escaped any lamb losses for the last few years. The foxes are a different story as I'm the only one still doing a bit of lamping locally:(

Most flocks actually lamb outside in the UK and all in NZ. The sizes of the flocks in the UK are a lot larger and probably put more pressure on the shepherd.
Outside over a large area it is difficult to protect newborn lambs

Eddie B

oldgit1897 wrote: »

I wonder what Packham would say about that ?

Here's packham right armed man. Bit about Lamb loses on Isle of White mentioned in it. You can probably guess it's just brushed aside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQg4KPkf5Ho

Cass

How many lads actively control bird numbers, especially around sheep/flocks?