It has not yet been proven who broke into a chicken coop in Walding (Upper Austria) and slaughtered 200 broilers. “Very suspicious” is one or more wolves, but it could also have been dogs. Commissioner DNA will find out, and the controversial wolf regulation is already pretty much “done and sealed”. And unexpected is the proliferation of the statements.
bitten to death! In and around a mobile barn in Walding, 200 broilers are lying on the floor, ten to fifteen are missing. Suspected of the chicken massacre: the wolf. “We are waiting for the DNA report,” says Gottfried Diwold of the agricultural department of the state of Upper Austria. People don’t really believe in a fox as the perpetrator, but a poacher dog could also be in a blood frenzy. Incidentally, the laying hens in the better protected neighboring barn all escaped with a fright. And it shouldn’t have been the first crime scene incident.
This year alone, there have been 73 reports of wolf kills and sightings in our federal state, very few of which have been clearly documented with photographs or genetic traces. That Isegrim is there is beyond dispute. And on the border between Salzburg and Upper Austria near Russbach, the alarm also went off on Sunday: ten lambs were mauled. In Salzburg, the sixth incident involving cattle has been reported since May and in Upper Austria it would be the third if the wolf were found to be the perpetrator in Walding.
20 opinions on the regulation
On June 26, the state parliament passed the controversial wolf ordinance for Upper Austria, so that the previously strictly protected predators could be more easily removed, i.e. hunted. “There were 20 opinions on the regulation, ten positive, eight negative and two neutral,” says the office of the responsible agricultural council Michaela Langer-Weninger (ÖVP). As expected, the negative came from nature conservation organizations, the positive from, for example, hunters, agriculture and authorities, and a neutral one from, for example, the national park.
Source: Krone
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