Gang of sheep rustlers snatch flock of 500 pregnant ewes worth £60,000 from Norfolk farm
Thieves used at least one lorry to take the flock with the ewes just seven or eight weeks off from lambing
A GANG of rustlers have stolen 500 pregnant sheep worth more than £60,000.
Thieves used at least one lorry to snatch the flock.
Farmer Jack Peacock, 29, said: “We’re seven or eight weeks off lambing now and they can lose them if stressed.
“If they’ve got a two-deck, 30ft lorry they could probably load 130 to 140 sheep on to it in seven or eight minutes. They obviously knew what they were doing.”
The sheep were stolen from High Elm Farm in East Tuddenham, Norfolk, on Tuesday.
Mr Peacock said neighbours saw sheep being loaded on to a lorry at about 9pm but assumed those doing it were farm workers. Police are appealing for witnesses.
Some locals on Facebook were able to see the funny side, with Ollie Hunt posting: “I think I saw this happening, I saw some guys turn up and start loading the sheep, I wanted to make sure I knew how many they’d taken so I started counting as they loaded them, I’m ashamed to say I fell asleep at 23...”
And Mark Dean wrote: “Someone saw a lorry on the A47 making an illegal ewe turn.”
Rustlers stole a £20,000 flock at a Somerset farm last year.
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