Man critical after Stag ( Buck) Attacks.
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This is indeed a very sad event, and my thoughts are with the victim's family at this time.
Sadly stag attacks are not uncommon on deer farms, especially at this time of year.
There have been many un-reported incidences of deer attacks over the last few years, with only the serious ones reaching the media. Unfortunately people fail to bear in mind that stags can be quiet and docile one day, and it only takes a hind to come into oestrus during the night, and the next morning the stag can resemble a homicidal maniac. Most deer farmers know this, but complacency is common and can get you into a lot of trouble. This is not the first terrible accident with deer, and it won't be the last. For this reason I am a great advocate of de-antlering farmed (and some park) stags once their velvet is shed and the antlers are hard. Although a de-antlered stag can and do still injure people.
People will always treat a stallion or a bull with the greatest respect, and rarely take chances with them, and that should go for farmed/tame stags too. But sadly many people will still take chances with them, and these terrible accidents happen.
Please click on this link: http://jelendeer.com/blog/ To help people stay safe when handling Red deer stags
Regards,
Mike
Mike Allison
Managing Director - Jelen Deer Services
Sadly stag attacks are not uncommon on deer farms, especially at this time of year.
There have been many un-reported incidences of deer attacks over the last few years, with only the serious ones reaching the media. Unfortunately people fail to bear in mind that stags can be quiet and docile one day, and it only takes a hind to come into oestrus during the night, and the next morning the stag can resemble a homicidal maniac. Most deer farmers know this, but complacency is common and can get you into a lot of trouble. This is not the first terrible accident with deer, and it won't be the last. For this reason I am a great advocate of de-antlering farmed (and some park) stags once their velvet is shed and the antlers are hard. Although a de-antlered stag can and do still injure people.
People will always treat a stallion or a bull with the greatest respect, and rarely take chances with them, and that should go for farmed/tame stags too. But sadly many people will still take chances with them, and these terrible accidents happen.
Please click on this link: http://jelendeer.com/blog/ To help people stay safe when handling Red deer stags
Regards,
Mike
Mike Allison
Managing Director - Jelen Deer Services
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Sinistral
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Stag attack kills Welsh farmer
Kenneth Price, 75, dies in hospital after suffering multiple injuries when animal turns on him.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/05/stag-attack-kills-welsh-farmer
A stag in rutting season. Photograph: Alamy
A farmer has died after being attacked by a stag at his remote hillside farm.
Kenneth Price, 75, of west Wales, suffered multiple injuries when the animal turned on him.
A doctor carried out emergency surgery on Price at the farm north of Carmarthen after the incident, which happened last week. He was airlifted to Morriston hospital in Swansea, where he underwent a further operation but he died on Monday.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been made aware of the incident. The Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire coroner, Mark Layton, will oversee Price's inquest.
It is understood that Price was an experienced and respected sheep farmer who had diversified into venison.
At this time of year – rutting season – stags can become territorial and aggressive. The HSE advises that handling be kept to a minimum: "Only enter their paddocks when it is essential for feeding, examination by the vet or if they must be moved to another group of hinds.
"When stock handlers enter a paddock which has a rutting stag inside, use a vehicle which will provide protection from an attack, eg a cabbed tractor. Two people should be on hand."
The HSE says that once their antlers are hard, stags should not be kept in fields with a public right of way.
In 2011, there was a spate of attacks on walkers by red deer in the royal parks of Richmond and Bushy in west London. Two people needed hospital treatment.
Kenneth Price, 75, dies in hospital after suffering multiple injuries when animal turns on him.
- Steven Morris The Guardian, Tuesday 5 November 2013 17.50 GMT
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/05/stag-attack-kills-welsh-farmer
A stag in rutting season. Photograph: Alamy
A farmer has died after being attacked by a stag at his remote hillside farm.
Kenneth Price, 75, of west Wales, suffered multiple injuries when the animal turned on him.
A doctor carried out emergency surgery on Price at the farm north of Carmarthen after the incident, which happened last week. He was airlifted to Morriston hospital in Swansea, where he underwent a further operation but he died on Monday.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been made aware of the incident. The Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire coroner, Mark Layton, will oversee Price's inquest.
It is understood that Price was an experienced and respected sheep farmer who had diversified into venison.
At this time of year – rutting season – stags can become territorial and aggressive. The HSE advises that handling be kept to a minimum: "Only enter their paddocks when it is essential for feeding, examination by the vet or if they must be moved to another group of hinds.
"When stock handlers enter a paddock which has a rutting stag inside, use a vehicle which will provide protection from an attack, eg a cabbed tractor. Two people should be on hand."
The HSE says that once their antlers are hard, stags should not be kept in fields with a public right of way.
In 2011, there was a spate of attacks on walkers by red deer in the royal parks of Richmond and Bushy in west London. Two people needed hospital treatment.
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Commiserations to the family concerned; a tragedy for everyone. All livestock farming has risks; in fact getting out of bed in the morning has risks, but the risks can be minimised. Another factor here is the age of the person involved. I am cracking on a bit myself and am very aware that I cannot bounce back from the occasional trashing that I get from farmed deer as quickly as I used to. Mind you probably nothing can be done about sharp tines hammered in by 300 kgs of moving stag. What increasing age should do for us though is give us more wisdom from the experiences and help us avoid getting into desperate situations. Certainly the advice about not going into a paddock with stags during the rut unless you have the protection of a vehicle is sound, but can you feed without getting out of the vehicle? For sure my quad bike has saved my life several times as well as making life so much easier, but I have had to have it lowered and widened so that I can outrun and out manoeuvre a charging stag without rolling the quad.
Still wouldn't swap the lifestyle for anything else though despite the risks. We all have choices.
Still wouldn't swap the lifestyle for anything else though despite the risks. We all have choices.
CARW FACH
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hey all, the man got attacked in saron after a stag got caught in a fence and he tryed to cut it out of the fence, due to the stag being in rut it attacked the man after the stag got free, very unfortunatly the man died after being in hospital for a few days, the man was in his early 70s so hopefully he had a good and forfillled life,
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