Furious animal rights campaigners have accused an Austrian farmer of lying after he shot dead a wolf that he claimed he thought was a fox. Farmer Niklas Koenig, 53, told police he had heard a commotion coming from his barn where he kept his sheep, and when he ran downstairs and grabbed his gun he […]
The “Xundheitswelt” wellness centre in Moorbad Harbach in Gmünd is focusing on good health in spring with a culinary week ending on 28 May. The centre has a focus on well being and health – combined in its wellness week with healthy food that tastes good. There are seven “Xundheitswelt” establishments in Austria, with the […]
Crows are gourmets who prefer organic food and are specifically targeting organic products, according to angry Austrian farmers who have won permission to start shooting the birds. Organic farmer Hannes Maier told local media that sometimes it was not possible to see the ground in his fields as the crows descended “in their thousands” to […]
A bull will be slaughtered after he put an elderly farmer into a clinic, officials in Vorderstoder said today (Weds).The animal knocked the 60-year-old man to the ground at his farm in the town in Upper Austrias Kirchdorf district yesterday evening (Tues). The farmers son, 28, managed to get clear by leaping over a fence.The […]
A Lower Austrian farmer who was looking for a “woman to lean on” in a TV hit series is suspected of killing his girlfriend before committing suicide.Alfred Tippelreiter participated in the first series of “Bauer sucht Frau” on private channel ATV, the Austrian version of international real life TV success “Farmer Wants A Wife” in […]
A farmer has bled to death after a work accident, police said today (Fri).The 59-year-old woman, who lived on her own, got under her tractors mowing device when the vehicle rolled backwards after she parked it. Investigators in Brunnenthal, Upper Austria, assume that the incident occurred in the early morning yesterday.She was found lying in […]
A farmer was hospitalised after he suffered an accident with his tractor yesterday (Weds).The 48-year-old man was driving his tractor up a pass road near Taxenbach in Salzburgs Pinzgau region when the vehicle and the manure tank it was towing overturned on a bend.The farmer sustained undisclosed injuries when the tractor and the trailer plunged […]
An elderly farmer has been injured by a two-year-old bull.The unconscious 72-year-old was found by his wife on Saturday morning, police in Ellmau in Tyrol said today (Mon). He was airlifted to a clinic in Kufstein where doctors attested severe internal injuries. It is unclear why the 1,000-kilo animal attacked the man.Earlier this month, a […]
A Carinthian farmer sustained severe facial injuries in a forestry accident yesterday (Mon).The 58-year-old was working on his own in his woodlands near Steinfeld in the province Spittal an der Drau district when he suddenly lost control of his chainsaw. The saw flipped up and slashed his jaw.The man managed to drive himself to his […]
Police in Lower Austria are investigating after two priceless geese were stolen.Officials in Kernhof near Lilienfeld said today (Mon) a farmer reported the loss of the two Red-breasted Geese this morning.A spokesman for local police said: “The farmer told us the geese were worth several hundreds of Euros each. They are a very rare vagrant.”Meanwhile, […]