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jendan

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Don't worry I’m going nowhere near that TB area 😂. I didn’t even get as far as checking the flood situation when I saw the area it was in. Husband has decided he can’t possibly bring himself to look at a place that calls itself Mouldyhills either 🙈. My drawing board is getting pretty tired now 😂
I agree about the name, and would have tried to change it to "something else" hills.:)
 

Pennine Ploughing

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Mixed Farmer
Don't worry I’m going nowhere near that TB area 😂. I didn’t even get as far as checking the flood situation when I saw the area it was in. Husband has decided he can’t possibly bring himself to look at a place that calls itself Mouldyhills either 🙈. My drawing board is getting pretty tired now 😂
Don't be put off by the name, it's got a lot going for it, mostly ploughable for grass rotation, steading fairly central, go see it both of you, if only for a comparison to other places, under right management would grow lots of grass,
I have been at it a couple of times years ago, it has a lot of potential that farm
 

jendan

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Don't be put off by the name, it's got a lot going for it, mostly ploughable for grass rotation, steading fairly central, go see it both of you, if only for a comparison to other places, under right management would grow lots of grass,
I have been at it a couple of times years ago, it has a lot of potential that farm
If my numbers come up this weekend,i would have a serious go for it .:)
 

Homesy

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Location
North West Devon
Don't worry I’m going nowhere near that TB area 😂. I didn’t even get as far as checking the flood situation when I saw the area it was in. Husband has decided he can’t possibly bring himself to look at a place that calls itself Mouldyhills either 🙈. My drawing board is getting pretty tired now 😂
You will struggle to find a farm suitable for dairy, in a milk field and not in a TB area. I had being buying cows out of Exeter from a farmer in Sussex. He was in a TB4 area but has just gone down with TB.
In a previous life, I farmed in south Shropshire. We were in a TB4 area, closed herd but still went down with TB, as did all our neighbours on the contiguous test. It is now endemic in that region. Have badgers or deer and you will get TB regardless of cattle movements. If TB is of that much concern erect an electric ring fence around your farm and buy where you want to live.
 

NoParticularPattern

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North Yorkshire
It is not even on a hill really, very gently slopping to the south to catch the sun on most of it,
South View maybe
Mouldyhills has to be some sort of local dialect/throwback/landmark name surely? Especially since it’s not actually hilly. It does look a nice spot but unfortunately our surname would make an excellent combination for name calling when joined with Mouldyhills 😂. And I suspect that the locals would outright refuse to accept the rename matter how hard you tried.
 

NoParticularPattern

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North Yorkshire
You will struggle to find a farm suitable for dairy, in a milk field and not in a TB area. I had being buying cows out of Exeter from a farmer in Sussex. He was in a TB4 area but has just gone down with TB.
In a previous life, I farmed in south Shropshire. We were in a TB4 area, closed herd but still went down with TB, as did all our neighbours on the contiguous test. It is now endemic in that region. Have badgers or deer and you will get TB regardless of cattle movements. If TB is of that much concern erect an electric ring fence around your farm and buy where you want to live.
Yes but ending up with TB in the end and deliberately buying into 6 monthly testing are two very different things….! Plus it would have implications for our herd back home testing wise and that’s not fair to anyone to intentionally make everyone’s lives more difficult. If a TB4 farm doesn’t come up then it doesn’t come up, it most definitely is the hill I’m willing to die upon- Mouldy or otherwise!
 

vantage

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembs
Yes but ending up with TB in the end and deliberately buying into 6 monthly testing are two very different things….! Plus it would have implications for our herd back home testing wise and that’s not fair to anyone to intentionally make everyone’s lives more difficult. If a TB4 farm doesn’t come up then it doesn’t come up, it most definitely is the hill I’m willing to die upon- Mouldy or otherwise!
Just because it’s in a high incidence area doesn’t mean it has TB. Some farms around here have never had Tb, we live with it. Check out its history, you may be lucky.
 

NoParticularPattern

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North Yorkshire
Just because it’s in a high incidence area doesn’t mean it has TB. Some farms around here have never had Tb, we live with it. Check out its history, you may be lucky.
Oh I’m not suggesting it definitely has it, but regardless of whether it does or doesn’t you still have the increased testing frequency to deal with. And I’m not going make a conscious decision to inflict that chew on on ourselves!
 

jendan

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Mouldyhills has to be some sort of local dialect/throwback/landmark name surely? Especially since it’s not actually hilly. It does look a nice spot but unfortunately our surname would make an excellent combination for name calling when joined with Mouldyhills 😂. And I suspect that the locals would outright refuse to accept the rename matter how hard you tried.
Its not "Oldough" or "Bread" is it?:ROFLMAO:........ Completely off topic but in our local paper last night,in the Births column,parents named their boy "Kell",with a surname "Hogg".......... a nailed on cert for a nickname of cornflake..............Could be worse i suppose,at least its not a Richard Head one.
 

NoParticularPattern

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North Yorkshire
Its not "Oldough" or "Bread" is it?:ROFLMAO:........ Completely off topic but in our local paper last night,in the Births column,parents named their boy "Kell",with a surname "Hogg".......... a nailed on cert for a nickname of cornflake..............Could be worse i suppose,at least its not a Richard Head one.
Not quite that bad 😂. I do have a friend who wanted to name her son Harry, entirely forgetting that her surname is Bow 🙈
 

aangus

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Location
cumbria
Mouldyhills has to be some sort of local dialect/throwback/landmark name surely? Especially since it’s not actually hilly. It does look a nice spot but unfortunately our surname would make an excellent combination for name calling when joined with Mouldyhills 😂. And I suspect that the locals would outright refuse to accept the rename matter how hard you tried.
The name might have something to do with mole hills
 

Jdunn55

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Yes but ending up with TB in the end and deliberately buying into 6 monthly testing are two very different things….! Plus it would have implications for our herd back home testing wise and that’s not fair to anyone to intentionally make everyone’s lives more difficult. If a TB4 farm doesn’t come up then it doesn’t come up, it most definitely is the hill I’m willing to die upon- Mouldy or otherwise!
Surely if you're in all year round you could badger proof the farm so you shouldn't be able to get tb or atleast reduce the risk massively?

Don't worry about the name it doesn't mean anything, mines called Roses and it's been anything but rosy so far 🙈🙈🙈😭😂
 

NoParticularPattern

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North Yorkshire
Surely if you're in all year round you could badger proof the farm so you shouldn't be able to get tb or atleast reduce the risk massively?

Don't worry about the name it doesn't mean anything, mines called Roses and it's been anything but rosy so far 🙈🙈🙈😭😂
Yeah we have no concerns about actually getting TB because of being a housed and closed herd, just don’t want the hassle of deliberately moving to somewhere that tests far more frequently than we currently do (because it’s a chew on 🙈).
Roses- prickly?! 😂 I know the buggers I’ve got in my garden are (or so the children keep telling me- they’ve yet to learn that one apparently!). You’re not doing so bad from what I can see- managed to get struck up on your own which is certainly no mean feat!
 

jendan

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Surely if you're in all year round you could badger proof the farm so you shouldn't be able to get tb or atleast reduce the risk massively?

Don't worry about the name it doesn't mean anything, mines called Roses and it's been anything but rosy so far 🙈🙈🙈😭😂
But you would still rather it be called Roses Bower than Clarty Sh!tehole.:)
 

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