Yes Slick I agree it is disgusting, and to think it has taken NZ this long to do something about it, SHAME ON NZ, they put rubber rings on their tails and private bits I believe, they fall off in the end, I still think this would be very painful, imagine a tight rubber ring on your finger, until it cut off the circulation and fell off it would hurt wouldn't it?

Farm life is often cruel, and I am glad I no longer have to endure some of the things that happen, my Dad was as kind as he could be, but farm life is farm life, it all comes down to cost and making a living half the time, still I can remember good things on the farm as well, my sister and I helping a runt calf who would not feed on its mother, and bottle feeding it, so it survived, my Dad would not have had the time for it, but we did, and it was great to see it grow up and become one of our milkers.

Town people should not be hard on Farm people, you have to live the life to understand why some things just have to be the way they are, but for me I can not understand why any cruel practices have to be acceptable just because they are farm animals, they feel pain and suffering just like any other animal, I am over the moon to see these being outlawed here, I am just not proud it has taken so darn long.

I have always said to my hubby it should be mandatory that every paddock have a large tree for shade, or a shelter built, and now it looks like that will be the case YAHOO.