A week after being shot through the head, this ewe (front, floppy ears) has not only survived but continues to feed her triplets. The ewe at rear lost both her lambs in the killings.
A week after being shot through the head, this ewe (front, floppy ears) has not only survived but continues to feed her triplets. The ewe at rear lost both her lambs in the killings.
A sheep shot through the head near Dunedin has made a stunning recovery and continues to raise her three lambs.
Roy Nimmo awoke last week to find three of his lambs had been shot dead in a paddock near his home in Cemetery Rd, beside the East Taieri Church.
Theywere only 1 or 2 weeks old.
A ewe had also been shot, through the head just below its droopy ears, but had somehow survived, he said.
However, he was deeply concerned someone had been shooting so close to his house.
Sergeant Kevin Davidson, of Mosgiel, said the shootings appeared to have been carried out with a .22 calibre rifle, either at point-blank range or by a very skilled marksman.
"It's either been a cracking shot, or they've been very, very close."
The killings come after mass stock shootings in January this year.
Sgt Davidson said the latest killings were again "gratuitous".
"You're not going to get any meat off a 2-week-old lamb."