Dead lamb

teddy52food · Mar 23, 2009

My neighbor has a Farmall B and raises a few goats and sheep. Today he said he lost a lamb that was tore up on it's back. He thought maybe a bobcat. I said maybe an eagle. Then he said he say one (eagle) in a tree the day before. Will an eagle kill a week old lamb?

Anonymous-0 · Mar 23, 2009

bison · Mar 23, 2009

when you got livestock,you gonna have deadstock.

hoof print · Mar 23, 2009

I believe they will. I watched an eagle carry away a dog once, not a big dog, but no chihuahua either. It may have tried to pick it up but couldn't, causing the damage to its back.

Fawteen · Mar 24, 2009

I've never seen it happen, but it's one of the things I wonder about. I have a half-dozen lambs under 2 weeks old and a family of eagles that live upstream from me. I see one or more every day.

Remember, reputation and National Geographic propaganda to the contrary, eagles are scavengers, they'll go after carrion before taking on anything live.

The ones I see around here seem more interested in seafood. They'll fight with the gulls over something washed up on the beach.

Wild Bill Caldwell · Mar 24, 2009

Elmer Keith writein' in His books "SIXGUNS" and "HELL I WAS THERE" writes of seein' eagles catchin' and flyin' off with lambs

Mr. Keith lived most of His life around Salmon Falls Idaho....Pistols, Rifles, Shotguns, Elmer was one of the most noted MARKSMEN of His day

Wild Bill

Ian Jones, Nanaimo, Can · Mar 24, 2009

Eagles look at lamb and baby goats the same way we look at a buffet in Vegas. Up here we have some web cams set up on eagle nests. One south of us in an urban setting was full of strange looking strings and you could hear funny jingling noises on it. Turns out they found about 12 cat collars in the nest when the eagles left. Nest was right in a subdivision. Lots of missing cat posters on mailboxes, etc.

jack harmon · Mar 24, 2009

I think anything will kill a lamb!normally, the ones ive seen anyway,dog will catch it about anywhere they can,coyote generally by throat,cat by back of neck,but it makes sense eagle would hit them in the back.we dont have too many eagles but ive seen owls try to take full grown turkeys,so it would be reasonable.first thing I would do is make sure theres not any strange dogs around,Ive always had more problems with dogs than anything else killing livestock.though a lamb is ice cream and lolipops to a coyote.

Ken Macfarlane · Mar 24, 2009

They pick up Canada geese up here, I'm sure a lamb would be no trouble.

Dan in Ore · Mar 24, 2009

I've always been told the opposite. Eagles are predators and the only one that will scavenge is the Bald Eagle.

I know that we have had several pairs of Golden Eagles around here in the past and they were constantly hunting.

Seen plenty of road kills, but the only eagle I have seen on them is a Bald.

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