I'm hoping someone can offer some advice to a problem I have that is genuinely getting ti the point its going to start giving me mental health issues.
We have been invaded on almost a daily basis by the same 4 cattle. 2 Belted Galloway and 2 Highlands. They cause havoc when they get in and due to by fields being wet (on going remediation on this problem) they are wrecking the fields, they have destroyed the majority of a new fruit orchard, killed off one bee hive and knocked the others over and trashed fences in their wake.
I have spoken to the owner who basically says you border a common it's your problem, although he was quick enough to ask ti run them through our land when they escaped onto the road through someone else's land but that's a different story.
Anyway the issue I have is that it's a long boundary approximately half a mile. I've been clearing and maintaining the fence line and this has been working since last year when we had the major problem with the cattle invading. I walk the fence line atleast once a week and it's all up. The extra posts I have added are taller than the original so I've added a third strand of barbed wire and they're still jumping it at 5ft high. The cows typically only come in at dark so all I end up seeing is 4 sets of eyes glowing when I go out to secure the ducks and chickens and I have to wait for the next day to inspect the damage that i hear from them crashing over the fences. I struggle to get any machinery to the area as it largely wooded so all this work had been done manually and its absolutely sole destroying seeing it being undone by half tonne wrecking machines. I've moved them on so many times that they run as soon as they know I'm there which is usually before I've even seen them as its dark.
Any advice very gratefully received as I can't start progressing until this is dealt with and at the moment I'm spending good money after bad trying to rectify the problem