The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: TheSmilingSheep on November 29, 2014, 07:56:54 pm
-
Just had everyone's miserable nightmare..... Went to the freezers, in the garage, to find that we'd been burgled! All of our lovely pork and hogget taken. We've obviously been a bit targeted, which is a horrid feeling, but it's a timely (xmas) reminder to everyone to take extra special care to secure their outbuildings....
Perspective rules! We are all safe, and all of our animals are safe, and we still love our idyllic life in the country....but we're really sad to think of our love and passion and care for our animals being flogged off in some car boot sale or black market meat sale....
Baaaaah humbug!
-
:rant:
-
Well done for counting your blessings and not letting this get to you :hug: - but so sorry it happened. That sucks. :bouquet:
-
That is rotten! I am so sorry to hear about that, to look on the bright side though at least they didn't steal machinery or farming equipment. It seems a little odd why they would take meat and not farming equipment.
-
quote 'It seems a little odd why they would take meat and not farming equipment.'
Because they are not farmers.
It is easy to offload meat into anybody's freezers, and cheap for Christmas dinners :furious: . When my pet ewes were stolen in Jan, I was told they didn't last very long. Just can't prove who it was, actually saw them last weekend, probably out thieving someone else's stock.
We had another 'visit' recently. They can take anything they like, just leave my animals alone :rant: .
Sorry for the rant. Brendon, please believe me it is far worse when they take living animals :'( , and you have the right attitude :hug:
-
:hug: not good, but as you say, could have been worse. Still doesn't give them the right to take anything they want :rant:
-
Oh, Bramblecot, that's awful that they've been again. :hug: I hope they stay away from your livestock in future.
-
No animals lost this time :relief: but they were obviously doing a recce again...the place is starting to look like Colditz :(
-
We had neighbours who steal red diesel and heating oil with their low life mate.
You would see torch light going on at night while they put it into containers , from th back of a rusty horse box.
Police are aware but its catching them at it. Same people padlock and chain their gate even when they are in !
:roflanim: Thankfully are new neighbours earn a living.
-
Thank you for all the smileys.....
My heart does go out to those who have lost livestock - really unimaginable...
As to the reference to Colditz, and padlocked gates, we've done just that.... heavy duty padlocks everywhere. It seems rather a shame, since manifestly the huge majority of people living around us are just ordinary respectful kind people... and the fact that this is our first bit of trouble in two years reminds us that this really is the exception to the rule. Still, it only takes one ********.......
Maybe we'll get some tape recordings of viciously barking dogs....
-
Thank you for all the smileys.....
My heart does go out to those who have lost livestock - really unimaginable...
As to the reference to Colditz, and padlocked gates, we've done just that.... heavy duty padlocks everywhere. It seems rather a shame, since manifestly the huge majority of people living around us are just ordinary respectful kind people... and the fact that this is our first bit of trouble in two years reminds us that this really is the exception to the rule. Still, it only takes one ********.......
Maybe we'll get some tape recordings of viciously barking dogs....
Well done, mind you people can cut padlocks, I hope the thieving stops and take care.
-
It's a real shame when things like this happen to people and you have my sympathy. Fortunately we haven't been in this situation yet but I'm sure we will at some point in the future. It seems to be becoming a more frequent event in rural areas. Anyone who doesn't report these 'break ins' are not doing anyone any favours for obvious reasons. Personally I'd like to set mantraps and high voltage fencing around our place perhaps a few land mines thrown in for good measures :-J
-
'Mantraps'! Brilliant. And instead of the meat bingo (which fuels our suspicious minds) we could auction off our mantrap captives..... :excited:
-
Following on...police at my neighbour's this morning. Their barn was done again last night and the diesel stolen :rant: :rant: :rant: . 5th time in 2 years, they can't get insurance anymore. We all know who it is.. it's just catching the bar stewards. Personally I'd line 'em up and shoot them.
-
What is wrong with human beings now? They think they have a right to take something which is not theirs, thankfully were I live people help each other out and don't raid peoples property. I hope the police catch them and give them a long sentence.
-
Our neighbour has installed a CCTV on the farm drive which she plays back through the farm computer. It cost a couple of hundred pounds but works really well. They can also see what time the fox patrols the poultry pens and take the appropriate action.
-
Following on...police at my neighbour's this morning. Their barn was done again last night and the diesel stolen :rant: :rant: :rant: . 5th time in 2 years, they can't get insurance anymore. We all know who it is.. it's just catching the bar stewards. Personally I'd line 'em up and shoot them.
"Personally I'd line 'em up and shoot them" I’m surprised they haven’t been.
Appalling, but if I was being robbed every 5 months I think I would be doing something err, spiteful to stop it.
-
Got up at 3.30 this morning as the dog wanted out to see the farm about a mile from us in flames! It seems that they were broken into last night and after taking what they could get there hands on they then set fire to the place. It seems that as they couldn't get past some of the padlocks etc they got a bit pi**ed off. Fortunately horses weren't in last night and farmer managed to get the dogs out. So it seems that even if you have lots of security in place they will just destroy what they can't take? :rant: Really upsetting they are a lovely hard working family.
-
Gosh, this stuff is very depressing to read - horrible sense of hopelessness and powerlessness. Not sure where my perspective would go if I lost livestock, was hit on 5 times, or saw my home go up in smoke.....
Have been hugely heartened, however, by people's loveliness and support....
-
The police must surely know who's behind this. We had one family in this area who were behind pretty well every incidence of this type of crime and, as I understand it, the police hauled them all in for interview every time a crime was committed. Sometimes it worked and the offender was locked away for a good long time, sometimes not, but eventually the rest of the family relocated - not a nice, clean ending to the story but a huge relief locally. The family was a tight-knit bunch and the children were brought up ignorant of any alternative way of life.
-
Following on...police at my neighbour's this morning. Their barn was done again last night and the diesel stolen :rant: :rant: :rant: . 5th time in 2 years, they can't get insurance anymore. We all know who it is.. it's just catching the bar stewards. Personally I'd line 'em up and shoot them.
"Personally I'd line 'em up and shoot them" I’m surprised they haven’t been.
Is your real name Tony EP90?
-
Our neighbours at our old house had around £5000 worth of things stolen in one night. I had my car window smashed which actually woke me up so I decided to go out and feed the lambs. Mid feed a pick up backed down our lane which itself is very unusual as the house was down a private lane with 4 houses and started loading stuff up from behind the garage. I knew the pickup as it was battered with bits tied up with bailing twine and belonged to a neighbouring farmer. I asked him what he was doing and he said rabbiting. So I asked where his dogs were and he said I cant carry them with my stuff. So he thought I would accept that he had brought his pickup here, unloaded his things behind a garage then gone back for his dogs. Called the police straight away, told him who it was but they just missed him while he was here. The officer that came was changing shifts so by the time they got to his place 3 hours later surprisingly his pickup was empty. Even though we saw him loading up and he had left his crowbars with finger prints on the police couldn't charge him as there was no DNA. Its only after he had gone away we discovered my car window and how much other stuff had gone. If I had known that at the time there would have been plenty of DNA around. Full credit to him, he had put the locks back together so you couldn't tell they were broken. I know the police wanted to try and charge him with something else but don't know whether they ever did. If anyone knows of Garry Dwyer and the scruffy cruel farmer that is John Allison (Mr Dwyer resides in a caravan in his field, used his pickup and believe dumped the stuff at Mr Allisons girlfriends house) in Colne stay away from the thieving bastards. The only reassuring thing is that one day if they are that blatant about it someone around that area will dispose of them.
-
You can buy and legally use a device that is a trip wire activated trigger that sets off a blank shotgun cartridge.
They are handy for setting up each night or across little used accesses or across your own access on the inside of your property and also for making building cordons
Last time I look several years ago they were sell for about a tenner each .
The effect of the blank going off at a few feet away does tend to unsettle even the most determined of thieves , especially if there is a secondary one or two more a few meters back in side your property lines.
You do need to have then protected by something like deer fencing etc to stop animals setting them off . Having one set to trip to the barn doors opening etc is also a good way to use them .
-
Is your real name Tony EP90?
I don't think anyone would want to be called Tony EP90, unless its a relative of Joe 90.
Assuming it was a serious enquiry, then no I’m not a Tony.
-
I was done over by thieving bar stewards a couple of months ago. They put a bolt cropper through the chain on the main gate. Then they put the bolt cropper through the very chunky hasps on the cattle byre and the small hay barn. Nothing taken from either. Then they jemmied the door to the tack room, popping the door stiles out and bending the five lever lock. They stole a chain saw (predictably) but more surprising a cast iron wood burning stove complete with the flue pipes.
I have upgraded the chain and lock on the main gate to a standard where I cannot think it can be cut with bolt croppers. The wooden gate posts have been replaced by ones of steel which have been concreted in.
A few yards inside the gate is an alarm mine with a trip line across the only access. Since installation the mine has been tripped once. As there was a used condom outside the gate I think this may have been a couple looking for a nice snug straw bed. I can only hope the explosion triggered some premature ejaculation, preferably of the brown sort.
Regards, David
-
I'm intrigued by the alarm mine ??? , can you send me details please. Ta.
-
http://www.spyshop.co.uk/alarm-mine (http://www.spyshop.co.uk/alarm-mine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D_3nAfmcqY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D_3nAfmcqY)
Google, blank shotgun trip wire etc for similar items.
-
Is your real name Tony EP90?
I don't think anyone would want to be called Tony EP90, unless its a relative of Joe 90.
Assuming it was a serious enquiry, then no I’m not a Tony.
Martin. Thought maybe he was out!
-
We thought our heating oil was getting nicked and funny enough since installing cameras it now last all winter. Rotten people to steal your pork but the world is full of chancers.
-
£35 for the alarm mine and 5 cartridges from Spyshop seems excessive. Countrywide sell the mine for £15 (product code 15956) and cartridges at 80p each (product code 15957).
Regards, David