Butchered lamb??

arctictree

Came across this earlier. Warning, graphic images.

I am nearly certain this was done in the last 24 hours. All the flesh seems to be gone. Just the spine and the fleece left. Poachers??

charolais0153

arctictree wrote: »

Came across this earlier. Warning, graphic images.

I am nearly certain this was done in the last 24 hours. All the flesh seems to be gone. Just the spine and the fleece left. Poachers??

Was it one of your own. I don't think crows would be as neat as that. Definitely was some sort of butcher

arctictree

charolais0153 wrote: »

Was it one of your own. I don't think crows would be as neat as that. Definitely was some sort of butcher

Yes, was one of my own. Fleece was about 8 yards away. Bast Ards...

Green farmer

It's foxes and or badgers. They'd do that over two nights.

tayto lover

Green farmer wrote: »

I think foxes and or badgers. They'd do that over two nights.

I don't believe that badgers eat animals of that size.

Green farmer

tayto lover wrote: »

I don't believe that badgers eat animals of that size.

if they found it immobilised they would.

Wailin

Green farmer wrote: »

if they found it immobilised they would.

Oh cop the **** on. Badgers eat earthworms, grubs, berries and insects. Not ****ing lamb.

Green farmer

I didn't say the badger attacked the lamb, as badgers mostly eat berries etc, but a badger would scavenge a carcass the same as a fox.

Lawless_IRE

Could have been a fox that made the kill. And a buzzard/hawk that cleaned up the bones

Sheep breeder

That carcass was stripped by fox and seagulls in a day or two, amazing how much of a lamb two or three seagulls can strip in a day,

arctictree

Just found it very strange that the fleece seems to have been separated from the carcass. We do have a resident buzzard and plenty of foxes and badgers too.

Sheep breeder

Gulls strip the skin and to the bone no problem.

Green farmer

The most likely cause is the lamb died of natural causes and nature just cleaned up. Hate when I find something that died overnight as the foxes will have had a go it. always get remains to knackery asap or into a shed if knackery cannt call the same day, as don't want to draw more predators to the area.

razor8

Was the skin still attached to the wool?

J.O. Farmer

Definitely wildlife probably scavenging a carcass. A poacher wouldn't have left so much of the ribs or skinned the head.
Also there's a fair bit of wool around the bones. A butcher would've removed the whole pelt without flittering wool so much.

ganmo

It's possible that it was butchered and then nature attacked
If it was butchered in the field there would be a puddle of blood, have a look for that and any sign of the leg bones? It's happened that poachers just take the legs

Sheep breeder

Let's face it lads that's a dead carcass, no butcher strips ribs on a fresh lamb and skins a head. A lamb is gutted and skinned and a full carcass removed and where is the panch.
How many days had the sheep being herded before this remains was found.