Terrible tales abound about farmers who only became aware of a local cull when they saw the slaughtermen at work in neighbouring fields; or ministry vets travelling from infected farm to farm, possibly spreading the disease.
She will not forget the day Ministry slaughtermen arrived on the farm.
It emerged that a slaughterman, a trained marksman, tried to kill the animals with a .22 rifle from a vehicle, with a vet present.
The slaughter-man scowled and looked over his shoulder at the welter of sweating, agitated horses: he was needed to quell the unrest in the yard.
Today he is a slaughterman, but his pro-hunting boss gives him days off to work as terrier man for the York and Ainsty South.
A son feared his father died from the human form of mad cow disease due to a life-time exposure to offal in his career as a slaughterman.
A slaughterman who killed a colleague while they culled sheep during the foot-and-mouth crisis was cleared of manslaughter yesterday.
The two latest suspected cases were disclosed a day after it emerged a slaughterman in north Cumbria was undergoing tests for the disease.
The place where his family has farmed since 1540 has fallen silent since the slaughtermen came on Saturday to destroy his 1,600 sheep and his beef herd.
Further details were also revealed yesterday about a culling incident at Niffany Farm, Skipton, where two cows escaped from slaughtermen.
- There was an absence of resources such as trucks, slaughter men and guns which led to a backlog of carcasses lying on the ground.
His dad was a butcher and slaughterman who was often out of work in the depression, and times were hard.
Slaughtermen culling sheep during the foot-and-mouth crisis were leaving loaded guns unattended, a court was told yesterday.
Foot-and-mouth disease is now in its sixth month and almost four million animals in Britain have faced the slaughterman.