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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13456903/Heartbroken-farmer-nearly-quit-career-ravens-massacre-220-lambs.html
Heartbroken farmer nearly quit career after ravens massacre 220 lambs
Surge in attacks now threatening viability of sheep farming, it’s claimed
Farmer devastated after losing 30 lambs in a single day
He spent hours helping deliver lamb, only for raven to kill it the next day
Massacres of newborn lambs by armies of ravens are threatening the viability of Scottish sheep farming, it was claimed yesterday.
One shepherd has revealed he considered quitting his career after 220 lambs were killed on a single farm. Five ewes also had to be destroyed.
Finn Yorston, who tends flocks on Balnabroich Farm near Blairgowrie in Perthshire told The Times he lost 30 lambs in a single day and that the growing raven population had brought a surge in attacks.
The 45-year-old said: ‘I have been a been a shepherd for 30 years and this was the worst lambing I have ever experienced.’ He added: ‘It is the only time in my life I nearly quit. I was born and bred on a hill and I think I am pretty tough, but it has been heartbreaking.’ Ravens are a protected species in Scotland which means a licence is needed to kill them. Estimates of their numbers range between 2,500 breeding pairs and 6,000.
The Scottish Government’s wildlife agency NatureScot says they tend to feed in large flocks which allows them to target prey much larger than they are.
They are members of the crow family and noted for their intelligence. Mr Yorston said they had learned to coordinate their attacks, luring ewes into defending one of their lambs, then preying on its twin.
In one particularly distressing incident he spent hours helping to deliver a lamb from a ewe which was struggling with the birth, only to discover a raven had killed the newborn the next day.
While raven attacks are an annual problem for sheep farmers, Mr Yorston said they had increased dramatically this year, costing the farm between £30,000 and £40,000.
The shepherd said he had counted 84 ravens on the farm, but NatureScot gave permission only for four to be killed. This was later increased to nine.
Mike Nairn, the farm manager, said the licence had little effect given the numbers of ravens predating on lambs there and that the attacks had continued.
He told The Scottish Farmer: ‘We have observed a significant increase in the raven population at Balnabroich Farm in recent years … they seriously threaten the viability of an upland sheep farming enterprise as well as causing multiple distressing instances of cruelty to the sheep flock.’ He said the farm is now selling 500 sheep, as they ‘stand no chance’ if the ravens return, and the farm needs time to recover.
A NatureScot spokesman said: ‘We recognise the damage that ravens can cause to livestock and the impact this has on farmers. We issue licences to control ravens to those who are suffering or likely to suffer serious damage to their livestock where there is no other satisfactory solution.
‘These licences permit the shooting of some of the birds that are causing the damage, with the aim of removing problem birds and deterring other ravens.’
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