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phil · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject: Fox and lambs

Has anyone on here seen a fox take a healthy young lamb i don't doubt they will take sickly or weak ones.Its something i haven't seen,just wonder if the fox is a handy scapegoat for bad farming.

Guest · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject:

"just wonder if the fox is a handy scapegoat for bad farming" Just read this post and have realised that you are obviously a complete wind-up merchant - nice one you had me goimg for a while...

phil · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:47 pm Post subject:

no pun intended

blowin · Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:07 am Post subject:

lofty · Joined: 07 May 2008 Posts: 65 Location: north mayo

have come across foxes taking lambs that were just born a couple of hours, have never seen foxes taking lambs that were older but a fox may be driven to killing older lambs if they are struggling to feed a litter or if the weather is particularly harsh. It wouldnt be unusual to spot foxes sitting in fields at night that hold heavily pregnant ewes.

dara · Joined: 01 Aug 2007 Posts: 186 Location: Mayo

We regularly lost lambs to foxs when we had too many ewes to lamb in the shed. We tried jackets and sprays but found that the problem was we were lambing too early - being pickled with foxs round here there wasn't much else for the buggers to hunt but our lambs. When we lambed later (early April) we had no real problems.
I remember watching one ewe lamb in the early evening about 50 yards from my backdoor and i went in to get the wife to help me get them in. 15 minutes later and one was found under the hedge dead and the couple was lying where it was born, savaged - the poor ewe , a mule, was going beserk. And so was I.

admin · Site Admin Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Posts: 227