STOATS KILL LAMBS
Stoats are blamed for killing 60 lambs on the property of a Famdon (Hawke’s Bay] farmer. Last season and early this season seagulls killed a few lambs, but the new danger, is responsible for a much larger death rate. A watch has been kept for 'the killers, but unsuccessfully. One cold night, however, the vigil .was relaxed early in the evening, and in the morning 13 casualties were found lying about the paddock. In everv case, blood on the wool of the lamb, in the vicinity of the neck, indicated the presence of- a tiny hole, evidently inflicted by the razor-like teeth of the stoat, and through which the attacker had sucjked the life blood of its victim. The stoats are silent workers. One night a lamb was killed within three chains of the watchers. When discovered by torchlight, it. was still warm, and the killer evidently had just left its victim. The farmer has removed his ewes and lambs from the’ paddock and replaced them with dry sheep.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4400, 4 October 1934, Page 2
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172STOATS KILL LAMBS Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4400, 4 October 1934, Page 2
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