Farmers, Livestock and snow

[Energize]

Where are you based?

How many horses do you have. 200acres isn't that big a area for hill sheep Infact its tiny

Cumbria, 40-50 horses depending on time of year.

more than likely a stud farm with over 12 employees and a stable for each horse

We had about 2 staff that managed to make it in last weekend. Obviously there is a stable for each horse, that's my point.

 

[davido_labido]

Cumbria, 40-50 horses depending on time of year.



We had about 2 staff that managed to make it in last weekend. Obviously there is a stable for each horse, that's my point.

40-50 horses vs hundreds/thousands of sheep... i know which one id prefer.

 

[Stolly]

My brother used to live and work on a farm thank you, and I live in an area surrounded by farms but don't let that stop you from having a decent discussion here without getting all emotional.

I live near a hospital, please let me operate on you.

 

[wilber]

Cumbria, 40-50 horses depending on time of year.



We had about 2 staff that managed to make it in last weekend. Obviously there is a stable for each horse, that's my point.

Your point is pointless.

So how many staff are employed in total?

What type of horses? thoroughbreds?

Is this a stud farm or what exactly?

 

[MrMoonX]

Leaving live stock out in their natural environment is cruel?

But having someone kill it on your behalf, butcher it and shove it in little plastic boxes so you can shove bits of it in the oven and eat it with mint sauce isn't?

The hypocrisy

+1

 

[Edrof]

I live near a hospital, please let me operate on you.

Oooh, well played.

 

[fadetoblack]

Omg farmers don't look after there cattle WLF?

Some townies on here really need to get a Grip!

 

[-BA-]

Townie ignorance on here is unreal. As is their disgraceful grasp on the English language.

Farms are run on unbelievably tight budgets where food, bedding and stock levels are planned months in advance and it is totally unrealistic to try and purchase excess of these to take account of freaks of nature like this extended winter.

As to the suggestion that farmers are loaded and don't care about their stock, guess again bucko. Most farmers are asset rich (although much is owned by the banks) but cash poor and what cashflow there is, is spoken for months in advance.

***** I hate reading these ignorant threads sometimes. Milk, meat, eggs and cheese don't just come from Tesco, idiots...

 

[Fuzz]

Don't see how farmers can complain about losing their livestock when they fail to protect them. We've got all our horses indoors from a 200 acre farm.

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha

Sorry, my sides.... they've just split.



10-20 horses vs 700 sheep is a little ****ing different!

We've got 500 acres here (thankfully no snow worth talking about though) and if we had the amount of snow that has been depicted in the news then you wouldn't be able to get round it all in a Tractor, let alone on foot!

If someone was paying me £200 a month per sheep to feed it and house it then yea by all means I'd build a block of flats for the damn sheep and give every one of them it's own ****ing room!"..

 

[Edrof]

Townie ignorance on here is unreal. As is their disgraceful grasp on the English language.

Farms are run on unbelievably tight budgets where food, bedding and stock levels are planned months in advance and it is totally unrealistic to try and purchase excess of these to take account of freaks of nature like this extended winter.

As to the suggestion that farmers are loaded and don't care about their stock, guess again bucko. Most farmers are asset rich (although much is owned by the banks) but cash poor and what cashflow there is, is spoken for months in advance.

***** I hate reading these ignorant threads sometimes. Milk, meat, eggs and cheese don't just come from Tesco, idiots...

Don't let it get you down. There are people who don't research their opinions before spouting off everywhere in life, sadly; the intelligent folk can see through it all, don't worry.

 

[Elixir]

It would be if farmers were more interested in caring for their livestock than they were in making money with them.

A bit of an odd statement... farming is a business, if they weren't going to make money doing it then they wouldn't do it at all. Not to mention that it's already barely profitable.

EDIT: Posted this before reading the rest of the thread, glad other people are pointing out the obvious so I don't have to get involved. The ignorance of some people is unbelievable.

 

[Energize]

Your point is pointless.

So how many staff are employed in total?

What type of horses? thoroughbreds?

Is this a stud farm or what exactly?

Thoroughbreds mostly yes. There's about 5-6 staff depending on the day of the week, it's a rehab centre mainly, but there's livery as well.

 

[Elixir]

Thoroughbreds mostly yes. There's about 5-6 staff depending on the day of the week, it's a rehab centre mainly, but there's livery as well.

Horses are also worth a lot more money and 200 acres is a TINY area of land. Many livestock farms are several thousand acres in horrendous terrain and staffed by a couple of people. It's just not feasible to keep livestock inside over winter.

 

[wilber]

Thoroughbreds mostly yes. There's about 5-6 staff depending on the day of the week, it's a rehab centre mainly, but there's livery as well.

And your comparing that to a sheep farm....

You only have to cough in the direction of a thoughbred (mainly race horses for those that don't know) and the owners get all naggy.

 

[~Mike~]

@wilber 10/10 for the effort in trying to educate these poor fools who clearly have no idea about Farming. I don't know how you keep so calm replying to them.

Keep up the good work.

 

[-BA-]

@wilber 10/10 for the effort in trying to educate these poor fools who clearly have no idea about Farming. I don't know how you keep so calm replying to them.

Keep up the good work.

Really miss my days in farming, animals are much easier to work with than people

 

[Elixir]

Really miss my days in farming, animals are much easier to work with than people

You should try arable farming, plants are even easier!

 

[Energize]

You only have to cough in the direction of a thoughbred (mainly race horses for those that don't know) and the owners get all naggy.

The yard owns the horses, we don't have owners paying to look after them.

If someone was paying me £200 a month per sheep to feed it and house it then yea by all means I'd build a block of flats for the damn sheep and give every one of them it's own ****ing room!"..

If only we had that kind of money to spend on them. Horses also cost disproportionately more than most livestock to look after and we don't have the luxury of being able to just cull unprofitable animals that need expensive veterinary treatment. God knows how many hundred sheep 50 horses is equivalent to!

 

[big_white_dog84]

If it's really that hard why don't they change career? Is it because they know nobody else would employ them, and that they don't like the thought of having to go through the day without treating everyone else like dirt?

 

[~Mike~]

If it's really that hard why don't they change career? Is it because they know nobody else would employ them, and that they don't like the thought of having to go through the day without treating everyone else like dirt?

You really are ********.