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Only real option I see is netting. Not doable over too large or hilly of areas, but I would try to do is link cattle fence trellis together or chain link with support beams (rope net might not be strong enough & could harm sea eagles if tangled in them) and totally enclose an entire field solely dedicated to lambing moms till the babies are big enough to not be snatched up be the sea eagles. Won't be cheap or easy, especially a large enough areas to protect 100+ pregnant moms. This should be at least partial off set cost wise by those who reintroduce this predator into the enviroment.

Easy answer: Help the farmers by building huge light-filled warehouses where sheep can birth and raise their lambs. Easy.

You never said anything about the other immigrants who are killing sheep.

Why would Government not want to help instead of being a hinderance?

too much government open season on politicians lol

Interesting 🤔.

Gift shite

I have heard all this before how many sheep in the uk Millions get a life I know shepherds who will kill a lamb so they 1 good big Lamb

Idk - when we were young (I'm mid-50s now!) we used to have loads of public information films on the telly - and, although as Young Farmers, we all used to laugh at them, they did used to show people how to behave in different ways, including walking across the land - such basic things such as shutting gates and keeping dogs on leads. It also did things in towns too - crossing the street and litter and stuff too. Part of me wonders if the sea eagles would be put off by a livestock guardian breed dog - I know that the crows and ravens are kept away here by my Caucasian shepherd just barking when they fly over - and he's not even out with the animals all the time. The eagles are beautiful for sure, but they are going to suffer in time when sheep aren't away out on the fields anyway and they can't sustain their numbers on the loss of the lambs.

I really hope the UK can take a leaf from the North American playbook. Canada and the US have an adaptable yet strong rewilding agenda that hasn’t had to come at the expense of farmers and stockmen - in fact we are often it’s greatest ally.

Very well explained, Charlotte. They have put in the hard work, deserve to succeed.

I knew a London-based lawyer who used to let his dog off the lead when he visited his second house in northern Wales. The farmer saw it chasing his sheep, and warned him that he would shoot it if he saw that happening during lambing season. Well the lawyer clearly ignored his warning, and the dog ended up getting shot. Last I heard, the lawyer was suing the farmer.

I don't think the cows realize how amusing they are!

shes been watching fed by farmers hahaha.........id like to hear from the brains behind the farm not the part timer...

Just moovellous😂

Awesome fantastic achievement 👏🏼

Why be so negative

Zero-graze, factory farmed dairy with astronomical capital investment costs and few, if any entry level jobs.

Well Ukraine sadly have an abundance of drone experience as of late... But nice to seeing them being put to some proper future use.

Farmers are going to have to adapt to the environment as they always have and adopt new methods to reduce predation from birds of prey. The eagles are taking lambs because they are the easiest target - if taking lambs is made more difficult then they will move onto other small mammals and fish. Obviously, affected farmers should be compensated for at least some of the additional costs incurred.

Awesome guys 👍🏼

Totally agree it is the only way to be with dogs

They are amazing 👏 and what a big help if farmer's used them. I know, Olly blogs tried them on one of his fields ❤ I do hope it works out for Alex. Good luck mate 👍

Think of the savings to the farmer on fuel alone. Seaweed has been used for years as a natural fertiliser so we know it works as long as they don’t over harvest the seaweed! Need more informational videos like for none farmers like myself. 👍

Ok so how long to spread 10 ton? Useless. More useless technology

What about the heart ache the farmer must feel from losing his stock ,it’s not just the financial burden. If this doesn’t cause mental health issues I don’t know what will.

Treat only training is a detriment to dogs.

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Purely positive doesn’t work. If it did, animals in the wild would teach their young that way.

Big respect

Dog owners need to have BIG fines , you can't blame the dog it is the owner .

Every dog owner should go through this training not just for the sake of the sheep but for the dog as well. Great video by the way

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He's 100% correct when my dogs are hunting you can put chicken in their mouth and it will fall out, they just want to hunt, they need to understand no means no,

They need guardian dogs…

absolutely horrifying. Glad Im not a sheepfarmer in UK... I would be so upset finding them eaten alive even before birth

Why don't British farmers use Great Pyrenees Guard dogs ?

The reason why Europe has much more wildlife than Britain is because it’s farmers often use flock guardian dogs and other measures to coexist with wildlife whereas our little island that barely has any wildlife in comparison has been cleansed by greedy lazy farmers whose only way of dealing with anything is to a eradicate it! Thanks farmers for fucking up our nature .

I’m sick of farmers moaning about everything like we’re supposed to kill all the wildlife, surely you have to expect some losses and not just presume you can get it all your own way all the time.

Lifestock Guardian Dogs might help.

The same problem with wolves here in Italy, a lot of problems, you can find wolves out of the door, and when the wolves kill a sheep the farmer is the problem. Thanks

Wolfs, bears and lynx have the right to life ... oh wait

Great pictures of Charlotte and her adorable cows.❤

They are all in need of livestock guardian dogs. We use them here in Australia and we've had 98% reduction in predation loses raising organic free range ducks, hens, sheep and turkeys in 80 acre paddocks. The trained dogs can be bought for around $40k each (around 20k pounds), or you can buy one trained pregnant guardian bitch for about $60k-$70k AUD, and she'll give birth to her pups in the brooder cages and train an average litter of 9-14 pups! They are excellent! Maremmas, Kangals etc are the best breeds for this.

I smell the greed , pay me for an unsustainable farming practice that destroys the environment , leave it out please how big is his flock and how large is the farm he's grazing not a tree or plant above short mown grass visible and then he's losing soil and sheep aren't native to this region , if people engage in practices that the environment cant sustain thats their own misfortune no need to blame everyone and and everything for their own stupidity, but still these people blame wildlife nature the weather and the like🙄 the mind boggles.

Chris Packham types need to understand we no longer live in the bronze age and fuck off..

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Government bodies no feckin common sense should be listening to the people that work on the ground

Little sections of barbed wire fince. Put a dead hide on it. Bird attacks hide. Bird finds barbed wire.

The sea eagles aren't introduced, they're reintroduced. I think we need to be able to compensate people for their losses while also making sure we maintain our ecosystems - these birds existed for thousands of years alongside humans until they were all shot or captured by hunters, there's got to be ways to protect the sheep or livelihoods of people, and yet still maintain essential apex predators. Shelters? Increasing the amount of hares and other birds?