AIBU to think that if you hate animals you shouldn't move to the countryside?

@HopelesslydevotedtoGu

Basically they are eventually going to be living in sleeping beauty's forest in the not too distant future.

It's win win at the moment, they are happy because as far as they are concerned we are not doing that messy farming business.

I'm happy because I am waiting for the moment the penny drops, about three years time I reckon.

I'm not a total bitch, planting nearest the house has been chosen for its ability to be coppiced or harvested for firewood, if needs be.

*have planted a woodland, the trees are presently about half a metre high. Neighbours seem quite happy with the lack of farming currently

They have NO idea.

I don't understand, what is going to happen? *

Trees grow. Very high. 1/2 metre is 50cm - the trees will not stay that size. It's a genius idea.

OP - our most stupid "complaint" was from a rambler who complained about the cow pats in the field and the fact they smelled. Yes love, that is what you will get from a summer grazing dairy herd if you choose to walk on the footpath through their field.

We also had a neighbour ask us to change milking times because they were woken up by the sounds of the milking parlour at 6am. I've got reems of stupid complaints I can share. My personal favourite was a complaint by a rambler (again) that DH was rude to him because DH had the temerity to shout at him for letting his dog chase our live stock. DH might have used more than a few rude words

These are hilarious!! OP any chicken houses nearby??? When my dads neighbour complained about the smell of the cow slurry he was spreading he went to the neighbouring farmer who has chicken houses and gives away the manure! It STINKS!!! A million times more than cattle slurry. And seems to linger for weeks for some reason ( not mixed like cow slurry.) Dogs seem to be unable to resist rolling in too for some reason . Pig slurry is another. Worth a try.

Umm, no views in ten years?!

Lordy me this is hilarious.

You definitely need to start a blog on this. These people are barking mad.

*have planted a woodland, the trees are presently about half a metre high. Neighbours seem quite happy with the lack of farming currently

They have NO idea.*

I don't understand, what is going to happen?

Townie living in the country. Bit Margot, not massively keen on poo etc, but if I'd seen all that in the neighbouring field I'd have been massively entertained. Carry on.

😂at these.

I can't believe some people are so dense! I moved several years ago and miss the sound of the horses, cows, chickens, cockerel, sheep and donkeys. Especially at 5am on a a summers morning when the cockerel starts folllowed by the donkey who would kick the gate at the same time as shouting! I loved it! Would move back to an area like this in a heartbeat if I could.

YANBU!

We get this here too. “It smells” (muckspreading)
“The cows make too much noise” (don’t buy house next door to dairy farm then you knob).

Utter arseholes. Hate townies. Hate, hate, hate them. And I’m not the farmer, I don’t know how he keeps his cool.

I used to live in a barn conversion on a farm. We used to laugh about how noisy it was. But we loved it and it never occurred to us to complain.

Can I ask something which has bothered me for a while? We live on the edge of a village; fields on two sides. I don’t mind the muck spreading, the tractors etc. When we moved in our fence was on its last legs and over the winter the sheep from the field pretty much knocked it down to get access to our garden. I wasn’t really that fussed about the garden but I did worry that they could then get to the road. When I phoned the farmer I got a stream of abuse that their livestock could be lost due to my dodgy fence. Is there no requirement for the farmer to enclose their own livestock? Our fence was replaced in the spring after this went on, and I got another stream of abuse when they moved sheep into the field while our fence was completely gone before it was rebuilt the next day. They have no fence at all at our boundary. I can’t really believe I am responsible for someone else’s livestock to this extent?

Same farmer caused us to be evacuated from the house when he burned a huge pile of dubious rubbish, claiming someone else must have set fire to it. Police and firefighters less than amused to deal with a hazardous chemical event. The dead sheep that I spotted pretty much skeletonised wasn’t that nice either. I’ve rescued his sheep from being stuck in brambles from time to time too.

My bet is that the neighbour is messing with and would be delighted if he knows you were falling for it....

Mia184, why?

OP, why not put up a thin wall so that the neighbours don’t see anything anymore?

My dad was a farmer, don't think he's had any of these kind of complaints but I will have to ask him now. He did have a farmer friend who whenever someone pissed him off would dump manure near their houses. It worked well for years until he had a dispute with his bank and decided to dump manure outside the local branch in the closest small town. Police had to shut the road, he was arrested. Still makes me laugh to think if it though.
I felt bad the other month when I complained to a local farmer about his sheep but this was cause they kept escaping cause he wasn't mending his fence properly. We had sheep in our garden, on the road and one memorable evening I nearly ran over a lamb. The field although rural backs on to a school and a busy road and they were out every other day. Still felt bad when I mentioned it to him.

I have planted a woodland, the trees are presently about half a metre high. Neighbours seem quite happy with the lack of farming currently

They have NO idea.

I think I love you! 😍 😂

I was born and brought up in a rural area, and came back to live here as an adult.

What really gets me is people moving into the area from urban areas and not understanding that they need to manage their gardens and land.

We get people buying the old farmhouses and vicarages (because they want to live in a Jane Austen novel) and they'll inevitably create a garden space at the back of the house, as though it was a semi detached suburban home. Everything else they will leave to run wild.

As a result, trees have grown to extraordinary heights. Then when winds come, they blow over (as the inhabitants haven't bothered to secure retaining walls either) and these trees take out roads, smash through roofs, and my favourite... uproot graves .

And then they expect the council to sort it out. Mate, you bought the methodist rectory with the graveyard and didn't manage the trees; it's your problem.

I think this is happening more and more. Our new neighbours put in planning for a hideous new house mainly glazed overlooking our fields, design statement said this was to "take advantage of the views"
Now they complain when we do any actual farming activities.

I have planted a woodland, the trees are presently about half a metre high. Neighbours seem quite happy with the lack of farming currently...

They have NO idea.

um...point of clarification please....

how does anyone stomach these comments and not say "are you on glue?" "do you need help getting to the doctor" etc etc?

We are in the northeast surrounded by fields, my mams neighbours have built a hideous
New build bungalow next door. She complained about caterpillars in the garden and blamed my mam for them coming in from her garden next door.

Nothing to do with the all the fields obviously.

Can I second (?third) donkeys. Our neighbours have two and they live in the field about 15 meters from my front door.
They sound like the guardians of the gates of hell.
Especially at 2am.

Don’t be so selfish, OP - just tarmac all that green stuff over and be quick about it!

Diversify- get some solar panels set up in your field and angle them so that your neighbours are blinded every time they sit in their conservatory.

(I used to work in the call centre for a sewerage company. The number of stupid complaints we would get about smelly sewerage treatment works from people who had just moved to the country from the city was amazing. Did these people 1. ever check out the vicinity of where they were buying? 2. Shit smells. )