Neighbours horses destroying our fences

[Thick Farmer]

Thanks for the replies, I put a strand of barbed wire along the top of the boundary but its come over it, it must have sustained some injury as it came over 2 sections of barbed wire.
Don't want to go down the legal route but it had crossed my mind to try and get to it next time before they do and put it in a shed, it might just concentrate their mind if they realise it might not be so easy next time as to just bring it back over the fence to their place like they have been doing!
But you're right, being nice and reasonable doesn't seem to be working...

Give the owners a barrage of verbal abuse, tell them you've had a belly full of their crap and if the horse is in your field again you don't know what you will do.... but it won't be good.

That usually does the trick. Also chasing the horse on the quad to round it up will pee them off! Use a length of alkathene the same as you would for cattle.

 

[spanners]

cut its head off, stick it under their bed sheets

 

[roscoe erf]

cut its head off, stick it under their bed sheets

farmers mafia

 

[Hilly]

Give the owners a barrage of verbal abuse, tell them you've had a belly full of their crap and if the horse is in your field again you don't know what you will do.... but it won't be good.

That usually does the trick. Also chasing the horse on the quad to round it up will pee them off! Use a length of alkathene the same as you would for cattle.

 

[bobk]

Give the owners a barrage of verbal abuse, tell them you've had a belly full of their crap and if the horse is in your field again you don't know what you will do.... but it won't be good.

That usually does the trick. Also chasing the horse on the quad to round it up will pee them off! Use a length of alkathene the same as you would for cattle.

 

[BSH]

I understood that it is YOUR responsibility to keep stock out. That it what I was advised in a similar situation although I think you can hold the animals and charge for expenses. You certainly cant harm them and would be liable if you did.

 

[roscoe erf]

I understood that it is YOUR responsibility to keep stock out. That it what I was advised in a similar situation although I think you can hold the animals and charge for expenses. You certainly cant harm them and would be liable if you did.

no if you have stock its your responsibility not your neighbours so if you both have stock you both have a fence.

 

[brynseiri]

All the things you could do, involve solicitors, fence his side, poison his horses, chase them with a quad, beat the living feck out of the neighbours to within an inch of their lives just result in more grief. The reason they haven't fenced their horses in is simple. Money, or lack of it, most horse to55ers round here haven't spare cash for a pot to pi55 in or a window to chuck it out of. If practical, a hotline on the top of the fence would be best, hooked to the mains. The fact they don't feed them as they should only strengthens my view about their budget availability for the horses. Speak to them regarding a share of the cost of the hotline, insist it is happening now and you want the half cost this week. Don't be too Adolf hitler, but don't beat around the bush either.

 

[Bruce Almighty]

I understood that it is YOUR responsibility to keep stock out. That it what I was advised in a similar situation although I think you can hold the animals and charge for expenses. You certainly cant harm them and would be liable if you did.

I understood it was your responsibility to fence your own stock in.

 

[grumpy]

no if you have stock its your responsibility not your neighbours so if you both have stock you both have a fence.

err no,

 

[Hilly]

In England isn't the responsibility of a border fence go with the person that the posts are on there side of the wire ?

 

[Blue.]

In England isn't the responsibility of a border fence go with the person that the posts are on there side of the wire ?

That's how it is round us,good fences make good neighbours.

 

[Goweresque]

In England isn't the responsibility of a border fence go with the person that the posts are on there side of the wire ?

From Wikipedia, so usual caveats apply:

"In the United Kingdom, the law is different for private land and common land. On private land it is the owner's responsibility to fence livestock in, but it is the responsibility of landowners bordering a common to fence the common's livestock out."

 

[roscoe erf]

err no,

err yes

 

[Goweresque]

This maybe of some interest: the Animals Act of 1971 has specific clauses relating to the right to detain trespassing animals - see section 7:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/22

 

[Shetlandsheep]

From Wikipedia, so usual caveats apply:

"In the United Kingdom, the law is different for private land and common land. On private land it is the owner's responsibility to fence livestock in, but it is the responsibility of landowners bordering a common to fence the common's livestock out."

Except in Scotland where boundary fencing is normally a shared cost (even if only one side has stock, however the shared element would be of a basic boundary, whereas the stock holder ought to pay for anything above that)

 

[Juggler]

Thanks for all the replies, I have been frustrated by this but not to the point of wanting to harm the horses or fall out with the neighbours! Neither do I intend to be walked over.

They have removed the horses from the field adjacent to mine, seems a bit daft of them not to fence it as it's only a fairly short run but there we go, the horses look well and are definately not neglected, just my re-seeded grass probably looks a damn site better than their old pasture, cant blame the horse I suppose.

I'm going to adopt the hot wire suggested by many of you and see where we go from there.

 

[Chris123]

is there a gate out onto the road from your field if so its been suggested already but can you move the stock off for a few days we have done this before and if the horses cant find the gate help them

 

[tillage]

I've found the staple-on stand offs you can buy very good, they stand a single strand of electric fence about a foot away from your fence. I think Hotline or Gallagher make them.

 

[IH 684]

we have had the same problem for the last 5 years, neighbour kept repairing the fence but a 10 year old may as well have done it, we bit the bullet this year and concreted in 200 meters of 4x4 posts 5 foot high