You won’t believe this

[Boysground]

This is a sad situation. However many of us have what seem like pointless interviews under caution and at some point common sense breaks out.
The bigger point is education and maybe right at the start there was a missed opportunity to educate the public. I can only speak as operator of a small caravan / camping site but we find the public are really interested in farming and we think part of our job is to educate.
One guest was thrilled with how friendly cows were, and she touched them over a gate. No big deal to us but to a town dweller this was an event.
I don’t think the public are trying to be difficult.

My calf hutches are right alongside a footpath. My guys are told to be nice to everyone and answer questions from the walkers. It’s common for me to see a family being given a tour. The kids love the inquisitive calves. There’s no harm in a little education

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[betweenthelines]

Perhaps the farmer started going into detail about his livestock breeding stategy

Talk of Blackie rams, Longhorns, white faced thieves, Danish Reds, Belgian Blues, Longhorns etc. could lead to innocent townies thinking the countryside is full of highly sexed Afro Carribbeans, local robbers Scandinavian Communists and Flemish Pornographers.

God knows what they would think of the goings on at a YFC dance!

 

[Bald Rick]

My mate runs a beef and sheep farm. One of his neighbours has glamping pods which border my friends farm. Yesterday morning he gets a very irate couple in his yard going mad that his cows have been having s*x in front of their children. Apparently they’d gone mad at the glamping pod site owner who explained the animals weren’t his. They demanded to know who’s they were, so turned up. My friend basically just laughed and asked them to leave. Next thing he knows the police are in his yard regarding an animal indecent exposure and sexual matter!! I kid you not, he’s now got to give a statement about his cows today at his local station. Apparently he’s been invited in voluntarily but if he doesn’t attend he could be arrested.

Google image “Horse mounts policeman” and get your mate to place that image in front of any officer questioning him. Should terminate any discussion pdq

Modesty (& TFF rules) forbids me pasting the pic here

 

[Fendt516profi]

Google image “Horse mounts policeman” and get your mate to place that image in front of any officer questioning him. Should terminate any discussion pdq

Modesty (& TFF rules) forbids me pasting the pic here

 

[Banana Bar]

My mate runs a beef and sheep farm. One of his neighbours has glamping pods which border my friends farm. Yesterday morning he gets a very irate couple in his yard going mad that his cows have been having s*x in front of their children. Apparently they’d gone mad at the glamping pod site owner who explained the animals weren’t his. They demanded to know who’s they were, so turned up. My friend basically just laughed and asked them to leave. Next thing he knows the police are in his yard regarding an animal indecent exposure and sexual matter!! I kid you not, he’s now got to give a statement about his cows today at his local station. Apparently he’s been invited in voluntarily but if he doesn’t attend he could be arrested.

I would so definitely run away. Make them get the chopper up, massive man hunt. It would be comedy gold in the papers!

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

I would so definitely run away. Make them get the chopper up, massive man hunt. It would be comedy gold in the papers!

It was getting the chopper up that kick started the whole thing

 

[Hfd Cattle]

My calf hutches are right alongside a footpath. My guys are told to be nice to everyone and answer questions from the walkers. It’s common for me to see a family being given a tour. The kids love the inquisitive calves. There’s no harm in a little education

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We have a large cattle shed with a footpath running alongside it . Most just walk pass without a sidewords glance but some will stop and watch and a few will show an interest. I will always have the time to stop and answer any questions ......even if I don't have the time !!

It keeps me on my toes though !!

 

[Victor]

"They werent having s*x officer they were just getting up for a better veiw to see what was going on next door"

 

[Hilly]

Holiday makers here and 99% not interested , the ones that are only want to know how early we start in morning and just keep saying it must be so hard been a farmer ooooh it must be so hard work , it’s quite frankly embarrassing .

 

[primmiemoo]

Looks as though some campers will have had first hand olfactory experience of agriculture this week

 

[oldoaktree]

Near neighbour farm has dairy heard and digester . When they are spreading the digestive/slurry I can smell it from my place it’s a couple of miles away by the crow fly. Now recently next door neighbour got some put on and it stinks proper stinks for a good week or so now. Question is if you had some form of holiday accommodation next door would you have to compensate your punters ? Tell them your in the country side and it’s the smell of the country side even though you know that they will not return.
I do know that the local farm to me has a bit of an issue with getting rid of the digestive.
By spreading it you are affecting someone else’s business!

 

[Cowmansam]

I know of a pub that had to close for 3 weeks as the fields on all sides got hammered in chicken muck mid summer and between the flies and the stink it wasn’t worth scaring potential customers away from ever coming back got nowhere with the farm owner for compensation but he did apologise and hasn’t done it since wasn’t intensional just never thought

 

[Robt]

If any of your lot really believe the opening post is true, then i really do dispair...... This is like the story told in most country pubs on most sunday evenings after a long session...

 

[Purli R]

Holiday makers here and 99% not interested , the ones that are only want to know how early we start in morning and just keep saying it must be so hard been a farmer ooooh it must be so hard work , it’s quite frankly embarrassing .

Just smile & keep tekkin there money.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

If any of your lot really believe the opening post is true, then i really do dispair...... This is like the story told in most country pubs on most sunday evenings after a long session...

I would love it to be true though !

 

[mountfarm]

Update: he went and the couple had said about the animals and their children. There’s no accusation against my friend although him laughing in their faces didn’t help the matter. The police found it amusing but had no choice but to investigate due to the words the couple had used. He asked if the police had seen the couple face to face but they wouldn’t confirm or deny nor would they say if the couple would be spoken to again.

 

[Hilly]

A lot of farmers must tell
Any muppet who will
Listen that farming is hard ,

Just smile & keep tekkin there money.

I do last ones that took any interest couldn’t get their head around the fact I don’t milk my cows twice a day educated people as well .

 

[Gordy1]

This is what you get when some people move to the countryside………….what would happen if you went to a hotel in a town for a weekend break & complained at the noise coming from night clubs & traffic etc, they would tell you not to come to the town & go back to the countryside if you don’t like it!!!, I know a couple of times when people have moved from a town to live next to a farm & have complained to the council about the smell from cows & pigs & had even asked for the pig farm to be shutdown!!!!, I think the horses that some folk bring along with them smell worse than cows & pigs

 

[oldoaktree]

I have complained about a night club in a hotel once there was nothing about it on the description about a night club banging away until the early hrs . I received a part refund.

 

[Deereone]

I do last ones that took any interest couldn’t get their head around the fact I don’t milk my cows twice a day educated people as well .
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Have they never heard of 3X day milking?