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Today's Topics:
1. Sad day (William Buchanan)
2. Re: Sad day (GARLAND STAMPER)
3. Re: Sad day (Gail Winnick)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 13:08:21 -0500
From: "William Buchanan" <bkbu...@bellsouth.net>
Subject: [Blackbelly] Sad day
To: <blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info>
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Hello all,
Last night, as with all July 4ths, we brought our Anatolian in to sleep in
the basement. He stresses out over the fireworks so we give him the night
off. Besides, we haven't lost a sheep or seen any signs of coyotes in
ages.
Well, this morning we awoke to a field of dead sheep. At first I suspected
dogs, wild or otherwise, due to the number of dead. But upon inspection, I
determined this was done by a mother and her pups. Apparantley July is the
beginning of the "training period" for coyotes pups. Every single dead
sheep
had small teeth marks on their throat or small puncture wounds on the
throat. Not one sheep had a single stray bite anywhere else on their body.
All the dead were a year old or younger, no adults killed. The most
common
victims were ramlambs born last fall. All were text book coyote kills, the
only thing that confused me was not a single one was eaten or even cut
open
and of course, the number killed, 15. I had never heard of a coyote
killing
more than one sheep at a time, but after researching it, I have learned
differently. They must have struck at daybreak. We got up and let the
house
dog out to use the bathroom and noticed the sheep gathered in a tight ball
in the front pasture and very worried looking. We also noticed a young
lamb
staggering across the pasture. I went up the slight rise to get a better
look and saw the dead bodies littering the pasture. All the bodies were
very
warm, the small amount of blood looked very fresh, no flies, and a few
were
still barely alive, drawing their last breath.
I am still in a state of shock.
Chris Buchanan
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:32:06 -0700
From: "GARLAND STAMPER" <gstamper97...@msn.com>
Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Sad day
To: <blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info>
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Chris,
OMG...I am so sorry and also shocked at the enormity of the attack. How
senseless!
Thank goodness your adults are alive. We don't have a sheep dog, but our
flock is very small only 25 lambs and adults, so our elec fence and the
neighbor dogs on all sides so far have kept ours safe. Coyotes are
opportunistic predators...glad your dog can go back out and do his job.
Sounds like he is doing a really good job!
Again, my condolences.
Beth in central OR
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 15:49:35 -0400
From: "Gail Winnick" <hearts...@acd.net>
Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Sad day
To: <blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info>
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Oh my gosh Chris. I'm so sorry. Just when you think you're doing a
good/nice thing. I would have never thought that after having the dog out
all the time before that they'd come at the first chance either.
Gail
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Buchanan" <bkbu...@bellsouth.net>
To: <blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info>
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 2:08 PM
Subject: [Blackbelly] Sad day
Hello all,
Last night, as with all July 4ths, we brought our Anatolian in to sleep
in
the basement. He stresses out over the fireworks so we give him the night
off. Besides, we haven't lost a sheep or seen any signs of coyotes in
ages.
Well, this morning we awoke to a field of dead sheep. At first I
suspected
dogs, wild or otherwise, due to the number of dead. But upon inspection,
I
determined this was done by a mother and her pups. Apparantley July is
the
beginning of the "training period" for coyotes pups. Every single dead
sheep had small teeth marks on their throat or small puncture wounds on
the throat. Not one sheep had a single stray bite anywhere else on their
body. All the dead were a year old or younger, no adults killed. The
most
common victims were ramlambs born last fall. All were text book coyote
kills, the only thing that confused me was not a single one was eaten or
even cut open and of course, the number killed, 15. I had never heard of
a coyote killing more than one sheep at a time, but after researching it,
I have learned differently. They must have struck at daybreak. We got up
and let the house dog out to use the bathroom and noticed the sheep
gathered in a tight ball in the front pasture and very worried looking.
We
also noticed a young lamb staggering across the pasture. I went up the
slight rise to get a better look and saw the dead bodies littering the
pasture. All the bodies were very warm, the small amount of blood looked
very fresh, no flies, and a few were still barely alive, drawing their
last breath.
I am still in a state of shock.
Chris Buchanan
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