[rbarlo32]

has kindly dumped a load of moldy silage into our ponies. i hope they are pleased with themselves if anything happens to our animals. what nice people.

[little blue]

somebody "trying" to be helpful...  ?

[rbarlo32]

blue moldy silage we can do with out that kind of help.

[bazzais]

Could have dumped worse - but even so what a bummer.

Takes much more time for you to clean up or fence round than the bastard who dumped it to throw it over your hedge.

Ponies prob wont eat it - but it doesnt stop the worry - or the worry that it may happen again.

Baz

[Hermit]

Have you asked round? probably a mistake or as said someone trying to be helpful. If it is a tractor load , there are only a couple of folk with tractors so ask them .Or if it is a small amount probably one of the many Sunday drivers we have had around today that has decided to give your ponies a feed from whoevers silage it is outside your gate.( I found a bunch of kids feeding my turkeys chicken sandwiches and buns).It would have been put there for a reason not dumped, the farmers have dump areas for bad silage and no one around here would even think of dumping bad silage on someone elses land. I dont think the ponies would have touched it if it was blue mouldy, but good job you found it.
I will ask for you if you like.

[rbarlo32]

turned out to contain cow and sheep poo as well. a tractor bucket load. so it was a scraping of someone with cows and sheep inside. which is very strange because as hermit said those farmers would not do that. bit bothered but we will just have to see if it reaccures. definatly a tractor as there are wheel marks near the gate. just wondering if a youth has been allowed the use of a tractor.

[Hermit]

Well there are only three folk with cows and sheep with tractors around us for many miles. No youths of driving age in their families.Probably someone delivering fertiliser and got the field wrong, those thin strip fields on that road are confusing.Thought you meant eatable silage not scrapings from an old shed.

[mcginty]

I would have had the same problem,kind people dumping lawn cuttings into my horses,
thinking it was good to feed the horses.I had to erect signs.

[Hermit]

I have had folk dumping lawn mower cuttings, I just went and explained the damage it can do and they apologised and stopped. They were not being lazy or nasty, just thought they were being efficient with their cuttings.

[rbarlo32]

its shifted now. i just hope its not caused a problem with the ewes. with having so few they are all very friendly and i would hate to see them suffer because of it. its probably nothing just annoying.

[Hermit]

Hope you have put it to good use for your veg beds.It will make good compost.

[Hermit]

Have you found out who it was yet?

[chrismahon]

Sounds like a mistake to me. Sister -in-law jokingly emailed to ask if I wanted a tractor as someone had left one in her drive overnight with the keys in. Thought it may have been stolen but waited a bit before calling the Police. It turned out the driver had been to the local pub previous evening, borrowed it to get home and left it at the wrong farmhouse. It was collected by the owner at lunchtime.