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angiebow

  • Joined Aug 2015
  • staffordshire
hellloooo from staffordshire
« on: August 09, 2015, 10:07:59 pm »
hi.. im Ange from staffordshire.. i live on a smallholding with the hubby Dave.. we've been here 2 yrs now and LOVE IT !!.
we have three  registered  welsh mountain stallions... ( hope to start a small stud ).. 2 sheep 1 ewe, texel cross called girly hand reared by me from a week old.. 1 ram.. jacob x also raised by me from a day old.. lived with the jack russells as he was smaller than them when he came to me..he now thinks he is a dog ...even runs after the balls with them and follows me everywhere ! will eat the dog buscuits if he can get them ! hes called lamby.. they are both yearlings.. sheared this yr and ive kept the fleeces... no idea what im going to do with them lol ...any ideas ?? we also have geese,hens various ducks including trout runner and miniture appleyards. three jack russells... one german shepred  and a rotty x german sheperd. i grow my own veg and wild flowers and have apple trees from which this yr i aim to make our own cider... next mission.. pigs !! well i'll shut up now lol... nice to meet you all  :wave:

Kimbo

  • Joined Feb 2015
  • Anglezarke, Lancashire
Re: hellloooo from staffordshire
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2015, 09:38:19 am »
hello from Lancashire
Is it time to retire yet?

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: hellloooo from staffordshire
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2015, 09:49:17 am »
Hello and welcome to the forum  :wave:
Well, you seem like busy people.
Depending on the quality of the fleece there are lots of things you can do with them. Spinning, felting (wet and dry), peg loom or if they aren't much good then its the compost heap  :)
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: hellloooo from staffordshire
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2015, 11:00:27 am »
Hello and welcome  :wave:

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: hellloooo from staffordshire
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2015, 11:12:48 am »
Hi there.  I've family in Staffs, sis is a handspinner and weaver... 
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Quirkygirl

  • Joined May 2015
  • Cwmbran, Wales
Re: hellloooo from staffordshire
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2015, 12:53:51 pm »
Hi from Cwmbran  :wave:

devonlady

  • Joined Aug 2014
Re: hellloooo from staffordshire
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2015, 06:53:12 pm »
And from Devon!

Sbom

  • Joined Jul 2012
  • Staffordshire
Re: hellloooo from staffordshire
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2015, 07:32:11 pm »
 :wave: from Staffordshire as well  :wave:

ladyK

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Conwy Valley
Re: hellloooo from staffordshire
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2015, 10:25:50 pm »
hello and welcome from the Conwy Valley  :wave:
"If one way is better than another, it is the way of nature." (Aristotle)

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: hellloooo from staffordshire
« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2015, 11:57:24 pm »
 :wave: and welcome from Shropshire.

angiebow

  • Joined Aug 2015
  • staffordshire
Re: hellloooo from staffordshire
« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2015, 03:56:23 pm »
 thanks for the wecome  :thumbsup: i may try the felting with the fleeces.. thanks for that :sheep:

 

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