The Hunt

[sleepy]

What is it with these people?

I'm normally pretty understanding of country sports and let them come across our ground.
However my rule has always been a) let us know when they are coming and b) don't go on the new seeds and c) no vehicles

So what happens today? My neighbour (non farming) phones me to say the hunt are all in her yard and been rude to her when she asked them to move, and next thing I know there are 4/5 vehicles and all the followers trapsing straight across some young timothy .

That's their last chance, they can fudge off & they're not coming back again

 

[Clive]

Can you actualy stop a hunt coming across rented land ? Does fox hunting form part of the sporting rights as it often does for shootng etc ?

 

[sleepy]

Can you actualy stop a hunt coming across rented land ? Does fox hunting form part of the sporting rights as it often does for shootng etc ?

Guess it depends on the tenancy agreement, my LL (council) let the tenant decide.

 

[Sid]

M

What is it with these people?

I'm normally pretty understanding of country sports and let them come across our ground.
However my rule has always been a) let us know when they are coming and b) don't go on the new seeds and c) no vehicles

So what happens today? My neighbour (non farming) phones me to say the hunt are all in her yard and been rude to her when she asked them to move, and next thing I know there are 4/5 vehicles and all the followers trapsing straight across some young timothy .

That's their last chance, they can fudge off & they're not coming back again

I have no bother with the hunt Its the followers. All i ask is a call before so i can plan not to meet them on tge roads. No vehicles, local dairy farmer got told to go forth from wence he came chasing my weaned calves around a field trying to find the best way to the road,.Happy for the riders to have access and anyone on foot.
They take the pee sometimes, ban them for the next 4 local meets.

 

[Ducati899]

We lost all respect for ours when a neighbouring farmer who followed them on his quad bike to help the terrier man decided to go all across my wheat and new leys a good few years ago and then the same day the hunt master went straight through our dairy herd on his horse with the rest of Of his tribe flooring close behind,They are just a nuisance now.. Total ban from our land

 

[7610 super q]

Can't think of any other group of people who can cut a neat little hole in a hedge, and cut wire without asking.....
Anyhoo....whenever one appears, I grab a big dollop of branches/ thorn bushes/ brambles, and ram it in the hole with a telehandler.

 

[Shadow]

It seems to depend hugely on the individual hunt. Most places I have lived the local pack has been a small, friendly bunch who stay away from places when asked and put right any damage but when I was in Oxfordshire they were a pain. Both the foxhound and beagle packs went where they fancied and had no control over the hounds. On different occasions they went through heavily in lamb ewes, through ALL the neighbours game cover strips the day after he had released the birds from the pens (he reckoned it cost him £5k), chased a fox through the garden (post ban) and galloped past the livery yard fields which were full of horses because we had been told they definitely wouldn't be coming our way! Thank god we moved as the lot down here seem pretty good so far...

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Just what we did...get them banned...pack of destructive toffs looking down their beaks at us

 

[TWi58630]

Horses are ok, people are ok but when you get certain people on top of a horse their brain and manners seem to disappear They look down their noses at you and treat you like shyte!

 

[Suffolk Serf]

I get more bother from the local shoot. The trouble is it's my landlord's.

 

[DRC]

It is actually illegal, unless following a set trail, drag hunting.
I've just about trained our lot to respect things, although they do still try and push it even though I say you can come when sheep aren't here, but not after they arrive on tack.
They love my HLS margins, which will probably get ploughed out this year, so be interesting to see what happens after then.

 

[TWi58630]

I call them "The raggy arsed toff brigade"

 

[Nearly]

I call them "The raggy arsed toff brigade"

I know a worse name.

 

[nick...]

Had them round here in november.never said they were coming and i despise em anyway.bloody horse foot prints all through a barley field and sh!t everywhere.must have been about 30/40 horses.they are as wellcome here as a fart in a space suit.upper class twots
Nick...

 

[RobFZS]

banned them from here, one they're a nuisance , 2, don't want them dragging tb all over our land, i know where they get alot of their dog meat from and it's certainly a place that's seen more tb cattle than anywhere else in the area and 3, why should they have fun on our land for free while alot of them are raking the money in enough to doss off during the week, the huntsmans ball is a load of rubbish with the local nobheads aswell.

 

[Gong Farmer]

I've always thought I had to accept hunts as part of the countryside life but if I ever went on Room 101 the one thing to go in would be hunt followers. Driving aimlessly round country lanes, stopping and blocking them because they thought they saw a horse three fields away.

 

[Vernon]

One way or another they always seem to bring or cause problems. Had a proper fall out with them when they decided to flush out the trees around our yard, and the hounds decided they needed to flush me out from under a trailer I was working under in our workshop.
Also got back to the yard one afternoon to find 2 police cars and three anti hunt vehicles parked in the yard. They all refused to move them so I advised them I had the technology to do so. They soon came running as I started to move them with the long pallet forks on the loader.

 

[Surgery]

banned them from here, one they're a nuisance , 2, don't want them dragging tb all over our land, i know where they get alot of their dog meat from and it's certainly a place that's seen more tb cattle than anywhere else in the area and 3, why should they have fun on our land for free while alot of them are raking the money in enough to doss off during the week, the huntsmans ball is a load of rubbish with the local nobheads aswell.

I think you might have wrote something which would be my major concern

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Hunt came round here a few weeks back, rang first to advise, said no problem.

Next day - Call from head huntsman saying they were chasing hare coursers across the farm, police and local gamekeeper all gave chase!

Haven't yet hear the outcome but I think each hunts popularity depends on how they treat us farmer's.

 

[RobFZS]

I think you might have wrote something which would be my major concern

That and Neosporosis, we have no dogs here, but the hunt just seems like a vessel for spreading disease to me.