DEER BEHAVIOUR BASICS: NUMBER 4 Stress: Aggression: Handling: Welfare issues By Dr Clive Dalton As soon as farmed deer see strangers or dogs, they use speed as a defence. With bad handling they can charge the fences in blind panic and injure themselves. What is stress? General signs of aggression in deer Physical factors causing … Read more
DEER FARMING BASICS: NUMBER 2 Capture: Stress & aggression: Handling: Calming: Welfare issues By Dr Clive Dalton Capture Stress and aggression in deer Deer farmers have been slow to provide shade and are criticised for this as causing stress. What is stress? General signs of aggression in deer Damage to pasture caused by stress A … Read more
The pinfold or village pound is better known on Tyneside as the ‘poond’ or the ‘pundfald’. The one in Ryton village has been well cared for for probably 200 years or more, and you can see from my photo taken in 2005, that some cement has helped keep the dry-walling stones and the coping stone … Read more