Trapping, guard dogs help some ranchers cope; ongoing livestock deaths drain producer income
Charles Hood has tried just about everything: trapping, putting out cyanide, designing snares and spotlighting. Nothing seems to have helped the Lometa-area rancher protect his sheep from coyote attacks. Hood, who raises about 200 dorper cross sheep at his ranch in Long Cove in northwestern Lampasas County, has lost nearly 40 ewes and lambs since March.
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