tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post8353390474558189619..comments2024-03-26T22:16:26.572-04:00Comments on Terrierman's Daily Dose: A Lamb's Cold Death In the GrassPBurnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-4671535455423288752018-05-10T16:02:08.448-04:002018-05-10T16:02:08.448-04:00Exactly the point Tuffy. In the UK, the claim is ...Exactly the point Tuffy. In the UK, the claim is made of wholesale slaughter of lambs by fox. It’s fiction. PBurnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-79349797793034480152018-05-09T19:56:28.052-04:002018-05-09T19:56:28.052-04:00i'm not sure why you think this book would say...i'm not sure why you think this book would say anything about foxes as sheep predators?!<br />they are not sheep predators--yes coyotes and wolves and regular dogs are, but not fox.<br /><br />in all my years raising and treating sheep, i have never had a single sheep or lamb death from a fox. we in fact have both red and grey foxes living close by, who steal chickens, or pheasant, but never sheep/lambs. in fact there is a fox family living under our hay shed that seems to return year after year. they, along with the multitude of raptors, must be loving the gophers and field mice...tuffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16113985064101042445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-23796431230454617732018-05-07T21:31:58.827-04:002018-05-07T21:31:58.827-04:00Yeah, I might read the book. But actually I live t...Yeah, I might read the book. But actually I live the life. It's lambing time right now on our farm in Iceland, and I started my new young sheepdog just a couple of weeks ago...Edzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10853691280823309116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-47336426119596052042018-05-07T16:56:28.485-04:002018-05-07T16:56:28.485-04:00Rebanks is also featured in a recent Smithsonian a...Rebanks is also featured in a recent Smithsonian article on the Lake District.Mark Farrell-Churchillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09867907324318184817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-80211216263095511972018-05-07T14:57:53.154-04:002018-05-07T14:57:53.154-04:00I will look for the book. Hope it is available as ...I will look for the book. Hope it is available as an e-book.<br /><br />My dog and I helped a couple of seasons on a large commercial flock in E. Oregon. Owner had severa H-2A hands and volunteers, like me. With so many helpers, not much work for a dog at shearing and lambing, but many long hours and sleepless nights us.<br /><br />Was mucking a jug or something when I heard and saw a good deal of excitement from the owner and couple Peruvian hands who had been loading a stock trailer to take mothers and lambs across a bridge to another field. He marks the ewe and lamb with coded paint numbers to keep them matched. One ewe's lambs was missing. We all fanned-out across the field to search. Shortly we heard the lamb baahing, and walked toward the sound. Down in a deeply encised stream on a narrow bank just above the water was the helpless one week old lamb. One jumped down the 5 ft vertical bank and handed uninjured lamb to me. In short order it was reunited with its mother. The number and kind of things that can go wrong raising sheep are almost endless. This owner had a contractor friend who would raise bottle lambs according to some kind of arrangement. -- TEC<br /><br />TEChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16532804977801740123noreply@blogger.com