ARGHHH WHY CAN'T FARMERS SORT THEIR FENCING OUT!!!!!

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This must be the 4th near miss in the last week I've had driving from my grandmas to mine on the back roads and everytime I have a lamb / sheep incident!!!

Not only are these lambs running wild on the lane... Me being a nice person and respecting the safety of other people's livestock and other road users I have stopped my car put hazards on and put these lambs back into the field!!

But ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!! Tonight (about 15 mins ago) driving back to mine, just out of no where, this lamb tried to commit suicide by jumping in front of my car from a ledge at the side of the lane. Thank god I swerved and screamed!!!! I missed it but my god I thought I had hit it!!!

Why can't the farmer just sort the fencing out??? Tomorrow I'm going to go round and inform him as its dangerous!!!!
 
We have really good fencing between our field and next door's field. However two lambs have been popping through the fence at will. In fact there were three of the little s*ds in with the horses today and I still can't find where they are getting in. :confused:
 
It makes me mad! My uncle has a farm up the road and there's always the odd stray lamb or sheep but its not so bad as there's no roads so at least their safe but running onto the road and of you get someone driving fast who has no idea about lambs or sheep something or someone could be seriously hurt! Grrrrr
 
Normally it's the fences that are fine and it's the tiny gap under the gate that they get out through, if so there needs to be a wee piece of wood hanging down on chains, that stops it. Thing is, the gap is sometimes ok until the lambs start scraping away at it and make it bigger! It's literally about a week that the lambs can get through these gaps before they are too big, so things should improve!

Should add i have a farm and not all farmers have un sorted fencing...:-))
 
Think yourselves lucky, had a horse riding friend ring me, do you know there is an artic stuck in your field?, no went to look, an arctic had gone down a small country lane over a 7.5ton limit bridge which leads to a bridleway, no where to turn so drove in our field stuck recovery lorry called so another huge lorry along bridleway three hours later huge mess broken gatepost he departs, glad didn't meet them on bridleway. Sat nav blamed as looking for SantaPod where is common sense?
 
Oh my goodness mon what a disaster.... Why don't people look at a map first before setting off! Your right.. Common sense.. Or the lack of it!!!
 
Sat nav must be loved honoured and obeyed, in a car you could understand but a huge arctic god knows what it is going to cost his company £95 hr for recovery truck and then putting our field right and it is a right mess, good job a livestock field nota horse paddock.
 
Oh dear Mon! I blame sat nav for a lot of things, I read a hilarious story where a woman had driven into a river because her sat nav said it was a ford, there was a picture of the submerged car being dragged out, it was definitely a deep fast flowing river with no indication that one should drive into it! The woman was not hurt and obviously felt pretty silly!

Lambs are naughty wee things :-)
 
There's only 1 world to describe that woman mandwhy and that is a... BAFOON!!!! Why the hell would u drive a car into a river I do not know!!!!

Ps I know not all farmers have crap fencing lol just this one seems to ignore the millions of suicide lambs escaping from his feild trying to right off my car!! Haha
 
It is an offence to allow livestock to stray on a turnpike road (i.e. fence/hedge on both sides) under the Roads Traffic Acts and it should be reportedto the police.

I agree, that is a bit severe in the case of young lambs but a young motorcyclist on the way to see his girl friend near here was killed when he hit a cow at night. I was a witness at the fatal accident inquiry because it was on record that I had made 23 complaints about straying stock to the police. That farmers fences were flat to the ground in places and he'd made no attempt to repair them.

There was another case where a motorist hit a sheep which bounced through the car windscreen. The car driver is still eating his meals through a straw.
 
My OH is a police man and has had to attend 2 crashes recently and arrange for poor sheep to be PTS - it is worth reporting loose livestock to the police they will come out and sort it out (track down farmer etc.) because they have more work to do if there is an accident and someone is injured.
The knackerman tends to issue a pretty large bill for middle of the night call outs to loose on road sheep which makes the farmers think twice about how much to spend on his fencing!
 
I had a nasty surprise going to see my boys first thing, about a month ago. A whole flock of sheep had stuffed themselves overnight on my saved (with difficulty) summer grazing. They had trampled, ate & dumped which equalled TRASHED my few acres. They had got in by a short post & rail by the gate, the farmers fence had more holes than confetti. I was not a happy bunny.:mad:
 
When I was at a previous yard which was next door to a couple of cattle farms, the cows from one particular farm were ALWAYS getting out onto the road. The fields were surrounded by hedges but with huge gaps in and the farmer seemed to think it was appropriate to use just a bit of twine to patch these gaps. Cows were always on the road and they were pretty dangerous. It wasn't just one either. You'd come around the corner in the car to see 20+ stampeding up the road towards you. Terrifying.

I called the Police every single time because it could be 2 or 3 times per week, at least. Eventually the farmer did sort out his fencing and put some proper stuff up, but the Police must have really had to harass him to do it. I just can't understand why you'd risk losing all of those cattle, endangering their lives and that of anyone using the road for a sake of a bit of electric fencing.
 
Ah right cool thanks for the advice! Ill find out the name of the lane today and then when I'm driving and I see another stray lamb I'm going to report it to the police :) I'm fed up of it now its every night nearly!

However I must admit that when I have seen a cow in the road (a couple of times) I have always dialled 111 I think and the police have always sorted it out.
 
agreed, dangerous. but also, no matter how good the fencing is, lambs are escape artists! They need to make a new road sign, you know like the ones with red triangles with a deer or badger in them, but with a sheep :D
 
FulshawGirl said:
Ah right cool thanks for the advice! Ill find out the name of the lane today and then when I'm driving and I see another stray lamb I'm going to report it to the police :) I'm fed up of it now its every night nearly!

However I must admit that when I have seen a cow in the road (a couple of times) I have always dialled 111 I think and the police have always sorted it out.
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No, contact the farmer before contacting the police if you haven't bothered to speak to him so far - be fair!!! ,if he doesn't sort it straight away then contact the police by all means.
 
lachlanandmarcus said:
No, contact the farmer before contacting the police if you haven't bothered to speak to him so far - be fair!!! ,if he doesn't sort it straight away then contact the police by all means.
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This^^^
Do talk to the farmer, he/she might not even be aware that the lambs are getting out, as they soon pop back in to their mothers for a bit of milk bar, and unless the farmer happens to see them out, or somebody tells them, they might not even see a possible getaway in the fenceline.
I got a few reports that my sheep are out, only to race the 500 yards to their field and find them all in there :o, if it wasn't for the people telling me they were out, I would be none the wiser as there was no obvious gap in the fences, I think I would feel fairly hurt if the passers by chose to ring the police instead of talking to me.
 
Yes I'm going round to farmers today and then if another lambs on the road then I ring the police. It's just far too dangerous and living not far from the towns you get young lads or lasses driving around at a million miles an hour if someone was to hit them god help them :(
 
Apologies I didn't realise you knew who the farmer was - clearly best to talk to them first - the police are good if you don't know who the sheep/ field belongs to as they can track them down relatively easily.
 
I don't know him personally but I know who he is :) I think I've figured out where their getting out... Underneath the stile! Hopefully they'll grow abit bigger soon so they can't sneak out!!
 
FulshawGirl said:
This must be the 4th near miss in the last week I've had driving from my grandmas to mine on the back roads and everytime I have a lamb / sheep incident!!!

Not only are these lambs running wild on the lane... Me being a nice person and respecting the safety of other people's livestock and other road users I have stopped my car put hazards on and put these lambs back into the field!!

But ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!! Tonight (about 15 mins ago) driving back to mine, just out of no where, this lamb tried to commit suicide by jumping in front of my car from a ledge at the side of the lane. Thank god I swerved and screamed!!!! I missed it but my god I thought I had hit it!!!

Why can't the farmer just sort the fencing out??? Tomorrow I'm going to go round and inform him as its dangerous!!!!
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Phone the police on the non-emergency number as it is a road hazard and will cause an accident. We came across some lambs out on a major A road nd phoned them and they went to find the farmers details and contact him
 
mon said:
There is a problem have to leave dog access then lambs use it as well
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This is the case and is probably why the poor farmer hasn't been able to solve the problem, when he's stuck between a rock and a hard place, not allowed to block the gap re dogs, has to block the gap re lambs :-(((. Of course it has to be sorted but when two legal requirements are in direct conflict.....

There are technical solutions but they aren't easy or cheap. They involve a top hung inward lifting panel gate for dogs.

I would TBH chat to him about this, maybe involving council ROW people if needed as they may be able to help with construction of something similar to above ( design, construction, sometimes part of the cost)
 
mynutmeg said:
Phone the police on the non-emergency number as it is a road hazard and will cause an accident. We came across some lambs out on a major A road nd phoned them and they went to find the farmers details and contact him
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When I've found the same I've knocked on doors, found the farmer and helped them rig up something ad hoc to keep the lambs in.....:-) I find that's a more helpful approach.
 
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