Lame & Hungry Sheep ?

Vote 4 Pedro

I want to start by saying I'm not a farmer or have anything to do with farming and is not a dig at farmers or anything.

I live in a great rural area surrounded by fields and small farms.
Just opposite my house the field is rented out to some guy, I know the guy that owns the field but I don't know this guy or even know his name but he keeps lots of sheep in this field and they look unwell,

They are lots of them but it's hard to know how many but the guy comes once a day (most but not every day) around 4 or 5 o'clock and gives 2 bags of feed to them, the bags are already open and not fully filled bags,
The sheep seem to be waiting on this visit all day everyday, the ones that can run come running over to any car that might passing and be slowing down or if anyone is walking past or if you go over to the gate,
There seems to be a high percentage of them that are lame or partly lame, some are limping along, some are holding there leg up all the time and some can hardly move at all staying in the same place nearly all day, Some look dead and they don't move for hours, It seems that they are in pain.
The field looks green enough but when you get up close you can see that there is very little grass,
This is not a dig at farmers or anything like that I just want to know am I been overly worried about them and they are fine or are they as bad as they look to my untrained eye.

rangler1

Vote 4 Pedro wrote: »

I want to start by saying I'm not a farmer or have anything to do with farming and is not a dig at farmers or anything.

I live in a great rural area surrounded by fields and small farms.
Just opposite my house the field is rented out to some guy, I know the guy that owns the field but I don't know this guy or even know his name but he keeps lots of sheep in this field and they look unwell,

They are lots of them but it's hard to know how many but the guy comes once a day (most but not every day) around 4 or 5 o'clock and gives 2 bags of feed to them, the bags are already open and not fully filled bags,
The sheep seem to be waiting on this visit all day everyday, the ones that can run come running over to any car that might passing and be slowing down or if anyone is walking past or if you go over to the gate,
There seems to be a high percentage of them that are lame or partly lame, some are limping along, some are holding there leg up all the time and some can hardly move at all staying in the same place nearly all day, Some look dead and they don't move for hours, It seems that they are in pain.
The field looks green enough but when you get up close you can see that there is very little grass,
This is not a dig at farmers or anything like that I just want to know am I been overly worried about them and they are fine or are they as bad as they look to my untrained eye.

No one should let animals suffer, phone the Department of Agriculture District Veterinary offices in your area if you're concerned. They'll send out a vet to check it out

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ganmo

The waiting for him to come to feed them is normal, sheep are creatures of habit

The Lameness is a problem though and should be sorted out