By: farmer newbie
(Mar 17, 2013)
Went to visit the farm and it was an uncomfortable experience. Nothing seems wholesome or holistic and the animals don't seem that happy. Everything is a mess and in disarray. They don't have actual compost piles they just throw they're trash straight onto their gardens without letting it break down first. They leave dead animals and entrails laying around in plain sight. Their barns are a mess and completely disorganized. All the animals including goats and cows are left to run around in the muck and mud. Doesn't that endanger the livestock for infection or fungus? They don't seem to know how to build proper gates, fences, animal structures, or keep healthy animals. They had a cow with mastitis and they insisted on keeping her with the rest of the herd inside with dirty hay and outside in the muck and mud. They're running a seedy operation at best.
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I'd be interested in knowing whether this poster was 'city folk' and had any experience on a farm or not. That would help to determine whether they were seeing this through the eyes of a grocery shopper or a person who knows that animals live outside and that farms have dirt and that gardens thrive through trench composting. On the other hand, if they've been to a farm before, and this truly is an unsafe and unhealthy environment, I'd like to know.