Published letters about a lack of shade for farm animals constituting cruelty to animals and negligence by farmers are appropriate.
To take it further, how many farm houses do we see closely surrounded by shade and windbreak trees while almost every field and hedgerow tree on the property has been removed to make way for grass?
The owners know what makes them comfortable but don't seem concerned about their stock's comfort.
Not only comfort but animals get sunburned too and they stop eating (making money) when they get hot.
We bought a bare farm about 30 years ago and planted several thousand deciduous and fruit trees. A plus for ourselves and our animals and the grass still grew under the canopy.
Richard Kean, Rotorua
Authorities should be alerted
I too would like to add my voice to the letter writers concerned about
the cruel practice in this country of putting animals in paddocks
without shade.
The Ministry for Primary Industries and the SPCA need to be alerted when
this is observed.
Joy Maskell, Lynmore
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