Guess what I found in my haylage!

I dont think anyone would be able to keep them off multiple acres of land tbh , and you shouldnt have to, but if they want a quick $h4g in a field they should take their rubbish awaywith them, for many reasons, just like id expect folks to take their juice bottles and crisp bags to a bin as well.
 
12Feb said:
Re complaining, you try sitting in a tractor cab and spotting a condom, used or not in the grass when its mowed and then baled... Especially when u have crap weather conditions and are trying to make a whole seasons hay/haylage for picky equine customers in the space of two weeks!! Just be happy you got any, its hardly your suppliers fault. Id be more annoyed at finding ragwort. On the other hand its not pleasant and the people who left in there in the first place... Yuk! Could have been kids making balloons tho... ;-)
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^^ this! The poor farmer who made it can hardly go through every field with a fine tooth comb when he cuts and bales it can he!

My OH got a whole dead sheep caught up in his mower once when he was out in New Zealand... that made a bit of a mess (and he definitely knew about it, took 4 hours for him to get it out of the mower!)
 
Completely agree with 12feb - those who think they should complain to the farmer/supplier, do they have any idea how hay is actually made?!
But bad that people can't take their litter home with them...whatever it may be!
 
The pony in question is being treated for headshaking caused by teeth. Which is why I thought he was headshaking again when he was only spitting out said condom. Condom was obviously used as stretched out and not in coil, if you get my drift.

I have no intention of complaining to farmer as what goes on in his fields he has no control over.
 
If the general public respected other peoples property then things like this wouldn't happen. People seem to think it is ok to throw their rubbish in a hedge or field. Or chuck their rubbish over the back of their garden fence into a field. After all it is only grass and you don't farm that...

Glad you found it and your horse didn't eat it.
 
I found a thong in our field the other day and apparently it's more than likely found its way there as our farmer muck spreads so someone has clearly flushed it down their toilet and its gone through the muck spreader and out on to our field. Is there not a chance this is how the item in question found its way into your haylage? So gross the things people flush!!
 
Ugh! Glad he spat it out!!

To all those saying to complain, honestly, get real, a farmer/supplier simply has no control over what folk leave in his fields & he simply cannot check every inch of his acreage. I found a whole boot in mine once!

If i was OP i'd be annoyed & relieved. The people to blame are the lazy litter louts who think it's acceptable to leave their garbage around our countryside. My old TB almost bled to death after he rolled on a glass bottle some idiot had thrown into the field - he severed a tendon & was never sound again. I regularly walk our field picking up rubbish idiots launch into it on the way past (we are next to a main road) - am forever finding glass bottles - but i simply cannot be there every minute of the day.
 
One of the hosues that overlooks the field at the back of my house seem to think it is ok to chuck dog muck over their fence there is a huge pile just over their fence. Cant smell too good in there as the gardens are tiny. having said that I have never seen a dog come out of that house for a walk either
 
windand rain said:
One of the hosues that overlooks the field at the back of my house seem to think it is ok to chuck dog muck over their fence there is a huge pile just over their fence. Cant smell too good in there as the gardens are tiny. having said that I have never seen a dog come out of that house for a walk either
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:eek: They are actually chucking it into your field!!??

If so... Chuck it back!!
 
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