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Gosh I am so MAD
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I had to get up at 5.30am as one of the tenants called to say there were 3lovely horses stood in their front yard.
For the first time in a long while when I went up there oshk strolled upto me and the others just followed back into the field. Why 3 horses would want to break out of a 23acre field to stand in someone's yard is beyond me, the grass is always green I suppose.
But what really riled me is that Walkers have left the gate open. Since right to roam was introduced we have had no end of livestock being anywhere but where they should be, Hepworth Quarry works almost went to court after our heifers got into the quarry after some ramblers left a gate open. It takes but 2seconds to close a gate, and extra 1 to make sure the latch is on- we went to the trouble of putting those easy open latches on 90% of our farm's gate just so they would have no excuse but to leave them how they found them, so now I am printing&laminating 65 "Please shut the gate" signs. Grrrrr.
 
I'll say it for you ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Right to Roam should NEVER have applied to farm land with livestock,only takes one person to forget to close a gate for all kinds of hell to break lose.
 
Ugh doesnt it just?
I think everyone on ehre can sypathise with the "horse getting onto road" nightmare and luckily it has only happened once, and Oshk jumped back into the field
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I just find it so frustrating because 3horses are not that hard to get back into a field, all I needed was 1 leadrope and a bucket. 100young heifers take a LOT more persuading, and we live 1/2 a mile from a not so nice road.
 
Yes I would go for the laminated signs on both sides of the gate too. I am a 'walker' as well as a horse rider and always shut gates and respect peoples livestock...we are not all the same...in my defence!!!
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I'm a walker too as are a lot of my friends and we don't go round leaving gates open. I think again it is the minority behaviour giving the rest of us a bad name.
Anyone who is serious about walking loves the countryside and is careful to close gates, not leave litter etc.
It sounds like your gate must've been opened sometime during the night when there don't tend to me many walkers about. Are you sure there are no locals up to mischief?
 
No, I turned the horses out at 6pm and as I said the field is 23acres, it will have taken them a long time to work upto that edge of the field, they were still lingering by the bottom gate at 10pm. Locals, pah, I live at the edge of peak national park, I have no locals!
I know it is the minority, and people who have horses and walk alot seem to respect the rules of the countryside a little more, we have holiday cottages up here so I am going to put a sign up in those as well just to stress how important it is to shut gates.
 
Lol, I was actually thinking about using a couple of my bike locks as we are short of padlocks- would possibly need to take out a mortgage to buy enough padlock and chain for 60+ gates but certainly an idea for the gates which ar left open most often- which is, ironically, where the majority of the livesyock is
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i had some twit, could think of another word beginning with t and ending in t, setting up a tent in the middle of a field last night, god knows what for, and he insisted on keep wobbling the tent around scaring our 3 horses as we rode past. i turned around to glare and saw it nearly fall down, serves him right, tonight i plan to find out what he is doing there. also had a tiff with stupid man that walks his dog next to us everyday, sits in car and watches us struggle with the gate. two nights ago growled at me, i said what is wrong with you im just smiling and he said he thought i would have waited til he put his dogs on the lead WE WOULD HAVE HAD TO STAND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD aarrrghhhhh.
 
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Just padlock them and make the b***s climb over, if they've got the energy to ramble.....

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Couldn't have put it better myself.
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I can total under stand its a nightmare. There was a pubic foot path through the field where I used to keep my mare. Someone left the gate open, the farmer got a call at 3am to say the horses were heading past the shops on the main road! He is not very horsey, he just had a big pony for his son to hunt, but luckily he managed to round them all up and get them back to the field. Some people are sooooooooo stupid!
 
definitely padlock the gates and put a stile in over the fence

if they've got enough energy to walk up and down teh peak district then they can climb over a stile

I'd add to the sign about shutting the gate something like

this field sometimes contains a bull
 
Was just going to say that reynold. I know it will take time and money, but could save a nasty accident. Put in stiles and chain the gates. If you simply chain the gates and DON'T put in a stile, I think you could be fined for blocking the right of way.
 
I had some footpaths running through my fields back in England and what I did was installed some kissing gates. I okay'd it with the council and they said this was perfect.
 
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