A female farmer could face jail after admitting neglect of animals at the family farm.
Annika Beavis admitted three charges of neglecting her cattle and one of failing to test them for TB when she appeared before magistrates in Coleford.
And after hearing that she had been convicted of 10 "very similar" offences in March last year, magistrates told her they would consider "all options", including prison, when sentencing her in April.
The court heard that Beavis took over running Hill Farm at Oxenton, near Cheltenham, after her parents Francis and Inger were banned from keeping animals in 2006.
The 44-year-old became trustee of a trust which has four grandchildren under-18 as beneficiaries and they technically own the cattle.
Crown Prosecutor Louisa Bagley said there had been a long history of problems at the farm and a neighbouring holding at Sunset Lane, Southam.
As well as animal welfare concerns, only 573 of the 650 cattle at the farm were tested for TB.
When inspectors visited in February this year they found 60 bulls in a field with nothing to drink except water from a filthy, dangerous pond which had the carcass of a dead animal in the middle.
Beavis also admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a sick cow because she failed to heed expert advice to treat it or put it down.
She eventually killed it herself and a post-mortem examination revealed it was suffering from chronic peritonitis, a painful condition and liver fluke.
Animal welfare experts from Gloucestershire County Council, which brought the prosecution, say she also failed to fence off boggy areas of the farm and another cow in very poor condition had to be pulled out of the mud.
The prosecution failed to offer evidence on five other charges.
Tim Burrows, defending, said Beavis started running the farm after the trust was set up following her parents’ disqualification in 2006.
"Since then she has carried the considerable weight of the farm on her shoulders," he said.
"She has tried to distance herself from the farm but she is trustee and there is no one else to take over that role."
Prosecutors asked magistrates to defer sentencing so they can make practical arrangements for animals on the farm because they plan to ask for a disqualification order.
Mr Burrows said there were already plans to move the animals so the order might not be necessary and urged magistrates to consider a community sentence.
He said Beavis would struggle to pay a fine because she still owed £17,000 from the previous case and was being paid just £25 a week from the trust.
But the magistrates said there were "aggravating" circumstances and warned Ms Beavis they could not rule out a prison sentence.
Sentencing will be before magistrates at Stroud on April 28.