Can somebody please offer some advice. My wife and I have just been away for a weeks holiday and when we returned our children told us that we had had an infestation of sheep in the garden. While they were out the sheep from a niehbouring field broke down their wire fence and spent the day grazing on all of our plants and bushes. They shooed them back and rang the farmer who came around and repaired the fence. However, our well established garden has been decimated. I do not know the cost of the damage or how to assess it but it must me running close to four figures if not more. How do I ascetain this and is the farmer to blame so he has to pay? What do I do if he refuses?
Many thanks
Ruined garden by sheep
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Do you have legal insurance? If so, refer it to them. Otherwise you need to get some quotes for the work and send them to the farmer. If he refuses then sue him.
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Hi,
If you don't have legal protection, see if your basic insurance covers your garden. If so, claim on that, let the insurers get it back off the farmer.
A flock of sheep invaded a house we were in the process of buying. We got the message .... the farmer wanted the house. We walked away.
If you don't have legal protection, see if your basic insurance covers your garden. If so, claim on that, let the insurers get it back off the farmer.
A flock of sheep invaded a house we were in the process of buying. We got the message .... the farmer wanted the house. We walked away.
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We had two sheep in the garden, they were only there for half an hour, but what a mess. 
Keep calm and carry on.
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katee
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LOL, I imagined you in a blood splattered butchers apron and two 'oven ready' sheep when I read thisappledore wrote: they were only there for half an hour, but what a mess.
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Stick a notice on the fence "Any sheep found trespassing on this property will be sold to the butcher !!" 
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Re: Ruined garden by sheep
katee wrote:LOL, I imagined you in a blood splattered butchers apron and two 'oven ready' sheep when I read thisappledore wrote: they were only there for half an hour, but what a mess.
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Sheep don't mess with apples, or apples turn sheep into cardigan and sunday dins.
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Mattylad wrote:Stick a notice on the fence "Any sheep found trespassing on this property will be sold to the butcher !!"
We did tell our neighbour that if they came in our garden again they'd end up in the freezer. She wasn't amused.
Keep calm and carry on.
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We could have had two new hearthrugs and plenty of Sunday dinners.katee wrote:LOL, I imagined you in a blood splattered butchers apron and two 'oven ready' sheep when I read thisappledore wrote: they were only there for half an hour, but what a mess.
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We had a ram on the patio on another occasion. It took three men to catch it, it was hilarious.
Keep calm and carry on.