Short film on Longhorn cattle in Wales, tb, and badgers

johngalway

First saw this on BFF, I'm not in cattle but we've had them and... Well, watch the film. Good piece for social networks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofTpfzEUUBY

Farmer Pudsey

Just two things I noticed he was right next to bull at least John Byrne had a bit of a twig to hunt away the bull and he was handleing the plastic off the round bales without gloves crazy crazy crazy:(

bogman_bass

Forcing a farmer to go through on-farm slaughter like that is terrible:(


@pudsey. I would say the vast majority of farmers remove silage wrap without gloves. whats the problem?

Farmer Pudsey

Rats and bird sh##e, I would consider it very dangerous personally I always put on gloves handling plastic, rats tend to use cover when ever possible. Cut on hand and bye bye. I know you might think the odd's are long but it one of those thing's we should be careful about. Also if you may not have a chance to wash your hand's for a while. As well as that dermitis is an off chance on the long term.

Had to hassle my young fella a lot to get into the habit.

johngalway

bogman_bass wrote: »

Forcing a farmer to go through on-farm slaughter like that is terrible:(

Yeah, I wasn't prepared for all I saw on that video. I know I wouldn't have held up as well in the same circumstances.

Lizard_Moon

:( that was a terribly sad video. I like the point about asking people against badger culling if the are happy for cattle to be "murdered" instead.

johngalway

Unfortunately it's not something that's isolated. I've another article about a UK farmer I'll post up later on, don't have the link directly to hand.