Wild dogs attack lambs
Farmers lose stock
THIS week in Rural Weekly we talk to sheep and cattle farmer Ross Brown after his farm was devastated by wild dog attacks.
Finding 12 lambs, barely alive after being attacked by wild dogs is not how anyone wants to start their morning.
Unfortunately this is what happened to Meandarra (west of Dalby) sheep and cattle farmer Ross Brown.
“I go out there and there’s these poor little lambs that have been bitten in the middle of the back and it’s broken their backs, and they’re alive and they’re just there bleeding and kicking with their front legs trying to get up and they can’t,” he said.
“They (the wild dogs) chased them around and killed them. It’s grabbed them in the back of the shoulder. It’s bloody cruel, the poor little buggers.
“I’ve had to go and hit them on the head.
“In another paddock the dogs had killed four ewes that were in lamb, one of them had had the lamb ripped out from its side.
“The dogs go in and pull out their entrails, their kidneys and liver and all that sort of thing. And here’s this little lamb lying there, obviously dead, still in the bag.” Mr Brown said after a recent muster they came up 140 sheep short.
“We should have had 560 and we came up with 383,” he said. “There were some old ewes in there and I think about 20 of them may have died from natural causes.
“Given that about 20 ewes might have died from natural causes, the wild dogs must have killed the balance.”
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