D the G We can all claim to be from farming stock for many generations.
So What? As I am pretty much retired I spend most of my time working on a sheep farm, so I do have a slight knowledge of
sheep farming. I would have thought it quite obvious from preceding posts that hunting is a very inefficient way of culling foxes. Most of the time it serves purely to build up their appetites by way of healthy exercise. Also Bristol University makes an issue about standards of husbandry but I find no mention of weather and its impact on outdoor lambing and this can have a major impact on lambing fatalities especially new borns.
One set of statistics:
Abortion/stillborn    40%
exposure/starvation    30%
Disease                20%
Congenital defects      5%
Predation Fox/Dog      5%

To an extent these statistics are meaningless because lambing averages and mortality rates vary markedly between upland and lowland flocks