Submitted by Elizabeth Grogan-Crane on Monday 29th January 2024
Published on Wednesday 14th February 2024
Current status: Open
Open until: Wednesday 14th August 2024
Current Signatures: 305
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Enhance requirements for farmers to shelter sheep kept outdoors
We want the Government to amend legislation and recommendations in Government guidance so that farmers are required to provide protection from adverse weather conditions. We believe current legislation is not sufficiently clear, and guidance not strong enough.
Currently the Government recommends that, where there is no natural shelter for sheep, artificial shelter, such as the placement of straw bales, should be provided. We want farmers to be required to provide structures that shelter sheep from heat, rain, wind and snow.
Many of us have seen sheep out on pastures during awful weather with nowhere to hide from the elements. At the moment this appears to be legal. We think proper portable structures should be provided to avoid the sheeps' distress and potential death.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
18.222.35.77 Thu, 02 May 2024 22:00:30 +0100
