horsegirl
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What can you do to make the YO get rid of it or is it the liveries responsibilty?
ON the subject of ragwort?
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Tia
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You'd have to look on the DEFRA website as I'm sure that the Laws on ragwort growing in grazing pastures now relates to horses aswell. I believe that the landowner is the one who would be proscecuted.
This is all by the by though - as a livery with horses grazing in a field with ragwort why wouldn't the horse-owner want to eradicate the ragwort anyway? I sure as heck would.
This is all by the by though - as a livery with horses grazing in a field with ragwort why wouldn't the horse-owner want to eradicate the ragwort anyway? I sure as heck would.
miller
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Report to DEFRA is what another livery did on my old yard - worked very quickly!
I believe under the "Duty of Care" rules then they should clear poisonous plants - may be wrong though
I believe under the "Duty of Care" rules then they should clear poisonous plants - may be wrong though
horsegirl
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well that's a good question but perhaps novice owners don't realise?
joy
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I have two acres which I am desperately trying to keep ragwort free but it's springing up elsewhere as soon as I've dug up a batch.
Next door is 10 yes 10 acres of wall to wall ragwort plus an elderly pony and a young shire mare.
The landowner is an absentee landlord with her own private yard and the horse owner doesn't care. The BHS welfare officer following a complaint went out to the horses but did not want to get involved so accepted the owners waffle and left.
On the other side of my fence line is a hedge of ragwort about which I can do nothing, I do not now where the land owner lives, what her name is or any relevent details now what?
Next door is 10 yes 10 acres of wall to wall ragwort plus an elderly pony and a young shire mare.
The landowner is an absentee landlord with her own private yard and the horse owner doesn't care. The BHS welfare officer following a complaint went out to the horses but did not want to get involved so accepted the owners waffle and left.
On the other side of my fence line is a hedge of ragwort about which I can do nothing, I do not now where the land owner lives, what her name is or any relevent details now what?