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RUSTYME

  • Joined Oct 2009
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« Reply #15 on: June 14, 2014, 08:30:48 pm »
Lol , yep , just give me a name , no one will know .
I have very reasonable rates , it is 'bogof' atm too .

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
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Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #16 on: June 14, 2014, 08:43:10 pm »
A couple of clones of myself and Mr Fleecewife, but with the bits which have broken down replaced.

If that's not possible, a couple of slaves who do as they're asked - that's not possible either.

In the main I'm happy with what we have already  :yippee: :yippee: :yippee: :garden: :hugsheep: :chook: :dog: :dog: :sunshine: me and him, and offspring well set up.
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mojocafa

  • Joined Sep 2012
  • Angus
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« Reply #17 on: June 14, 2014, 08:47:50 pm »
Lol , yep , just give me a name , no one will know .
I have very reasonable rates , it is 'bogof' atm too .

Don't tempt me   :thinking:
pygmy goats, gsd, border collie, scots dumpys, cochins, araucanas, shetland ducks and geese,  marrans, and pea fowl in a pear tree.

RUSTYME

  • Joined Oct 2009
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« Reply #18 on: June 14, 2014, 08:59:38 pm »
Lol , it can be tempting at times can't it mate .

bigchicken

  • Joined Nov 2008
  • Fife Scotland
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #19 on: June 14, 2014, 09:05:12 pm »
Don't really want more just to be able to manage what I've got and have my place tidy.
Shetland sheep, Castlemilk Moorits sheep, Hebridean sheep, Scots Grey Bantams, Scots Dumpy Bantams. Shetland Ducks.

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #20 on: June 14, 2014, 09:07:16 pm »
1. A cure for my disability
2. A husband who thinks a smallholding is a brilliant idea - ideally the same OH but with a change of mndset
3. A smallholding with a lovely cottage and lots of outbuildings
4. Chickens
5. Sheep
6. Pigs
7.Bees
8. The money to be able to run it all

Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Durham
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #21 on: June 14, 2014, 10:19:24 pm »
A smallholding so I can have a wish list  :sunshine:

oor wullie

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • Strathnairn
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #22 on: June 15, 2014, 07:08:18 am »
1) To get all the fencing finished
2) A way to stop the hares destroying all the new trees i have just planted
3) a flail mower
4) a couple of Shetland cows
5) another tractor
6) haymaking equiment
7) a cow shed
8) another tractor
9) a reduction in the plague of pheasants
10) another shed to keep all the tractors in.




ellied

  • Joined Sep 2010
  • Fife
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Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #23 on: June 15, 2014, 07:57:19 am »
A very large cattle court style barn so I can save at least some of my ground and with any luck my body from further winter damage while providing optional dry standing for the stock.  And a fixed haybarn with a roof that doesn't leak, an extension roof that is back on after 4 years, some yorkshire boarding would be nice.. 

Tractor with a bale spike, dung graip and digger bucket at least

An income from writing or something I can do here anyway, to support all the above

Above all, my health and fitness back, but sadly that one is more than wishlist, it's miracle list ::)

More likely I should wish for an alternative lifestyle without the land/stock, but with a regular income not dependent on physical capacity or mental endurance ::)  Just finding it hard to change the mindset :(
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clydesdaleclopper

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #24 on: June 15, 2014, 09:42:49 am »
A big barn with an actual roof  :thumbsup:
More land
A digger
A body that isn't wrecked


I'm off in LaLa land here  ::)
Our holding has Anglo Nubian and British Toggenburg goats, Gotland sheep, Franconian Geese, Blue Swedish ducks, a whole load of mongrel hens and two semi-feral children.

bumpkins

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • North Petherton, Somerset
  • Don't wait for your ship to come in-swim out to it
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #25 on: June 15, 2014, 10:36:13 am »
A lovely barn so that we can breed from our gorgeous Jacob sheep - somewhere safe for them to lamb!

john and helen

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • Devon
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Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #26 on: June 17, 2014, 10:12:29 pm »

this year, once everything is signed..get the goats in…stock fence as many paddocks, get the chooks, ducks geese,  sorted,
then next year..get the sheep, pigs and calfs in …may get them in earlier, depending how we get on  :excited: :excited:

devonlad

  • Joined Nov 2012
  • Nr Crediton in Devon
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #27 on: June 18, 2014, 08:01:34 am »
1 suitable housing to keep a couple of dexters
2) a couple of dexters
3) several million tons of earth to iron out the steep slope
4) an old tractor
5) 48 hour days
6) slugs to become extinct

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #28 on: June 18, 2014, 08:03:33 am »

5) 48 hour days
6) slugs to become extinct



love those 2 options...

Backinwellies

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  • Joined Sep 2012
  • Llandeilo Carmarthenshire
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Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #29 on: June 18, 2014, 08:42:56 am »
Ducks do a pretty good job on slug extinction! ... no probs in my veg garden this year..

Wish list ....  :thinking:

1) a flat area to build a barn! 
2) the barn
3) a tractor with 'kit'
4) the polytunnel to be erected and full of veg .. rather than being a kit in the shed!
5) the cows to be pregnant
6) no more new springs to appear ... just when you think you have the wet bits mapped!
7) grass to out complete rushes!!

.... and the  :sunshine: to continue ...
Linda

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