First ever post in hunting thread! Etiquette question.

[Nudibranch]

Having never been involved in hunting you'll have to excuse my ignorance but if anyone could help answer my question I'd be grateful!

If a landowner has given permission for the hunt to ride over his land, and said land is grazed by farm animals and horses, would it be usual to inform the farmer, etc, before the hunt goes out?

What would be the general consensus on the hunt riding through a field grazed by horses, in particular young horses?

 

[Springy]

The hunts always ask permission of any land owner of any land they MIGHT cross before the day of the hunt

I would presume that the landowner should discuss this with any tenant farmers.

It would be very rare for the hunt to cross a field of horses..... maybe if really necessary the huntsman and the whipper might but I doubt the whole hunt would troop through it (unless they had been given prior permission)

 

[Drakerath]

The Master in charge of the day will clear the land with a specific date in mind. They will discuss with the land owners where they can (or can't) go.
It is then up to the landowner to inform anyone who rents that land off them that the hunt are coming through on such and such a day.

When we hunt on land where we have permission and there are horses in a field close by but whose land we have not 'cleared' (because we will not be going on it) then we ride as considerately as possible. No one wants to see horses break loose and join in!

Hunting people are horsey people so they tend to apply a bit of common sense when passing other horses in fields. You'd have to be a bit of a cock to gallop wantonly upside a herd of youngsters running loose in an ajoining field. It's asking for a lot more trouble than just slowing up for a hundred metres whilst you pass the other nags.

 

[Springy]

You'd have to be a bit of a cock to gallop wantonly upside a herd of youngsters running loose in an ajoining field.

Spat wine everywhere laughing

 

[Nudibranch]

Thanks for that everyone.

Still laughing at Drakerath's post