Notice of Hearing on the Application to Use Sodium Fluoroacetate ...

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1080 use, and continued To rise frxn thre? co five years after the
suspension <strong>of</strong> lO80 in 1972. %e norad that losses appear to have
declined by from three to six percent in the past four or five
years.
43. Dr. Zcoert Robel, a Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Environmental 3iology ac Kansas
Stace University and a witness for Sefender's <strong>of</strong> 'iii l dl i fz ., eT a1 . ,
testifi2d thaz in 1935-76 he supervised a study which focus2a cn
sheep losses co premiers and olther C ~ U S ~ in S a nine-coun~ area oi
south central Kansas. The producers rak'ng part in the sccciy nad
SO percent <strong>of</strong> the shee? in the nine-cocnty di?3, constizuring 21
percent <strong>of</strong> the sheep in Kansas. Although the primary pLr7ose <strong>of</strong> this
study was to evalua:e the effecti\fenesi <strong>of</strong> various nusbarfary ?rac;ices
in reducing predation, the study reported losses zo all causes were
6.8 percent <strong>of</strong> the sheep and 7.9 percent <strong>of</strong> the lambs on an annual
basis. proportion at^ cjuses <strong>of</strong> lanb deaths prior io cocking included
lambing complications 74.6 percent, dogs 0.7 percent and coyotes
5.1 percent. Proportionate causes <strong>of</strong> post-docking lamb losses included
disease, weather, unkno~in and other causes totaling 79.9 percent, ;vhi le
predation losses were coyotes 14.9 percent and dogs 2.1 percent. Annual
Icsses to predators were 0.9 percent <strong>of</strong> the stock sheep inventory and
0.9 percent <strong>of</strong> the lambs born. Of losses to gredators, coyot~s ki 1 led
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1 J. , ;~rcs.~i ti? ;he zl-,e2p and ai3.o p2,-;2nr <strong>of</strong> int: i amci . U G ~ S KI ; lea
24.9 percent <strong>of</strong> the sheep and 19.4 percent <strong>of</strong> the 1 ambs . These resul ~s