Hi all,
although I have been reading things on here for a while, I have now joined properly and can bother you with all my queries!
My family and I have just moved to Scotland from New Forest, England and have bought a farm. Although we have always had animals, ponies, poultry etc, we just rented fields, ever had a farm to manage, so this site is proving useful
At the moment we have here, 4 New Forest ponies, a shetland pony ad an old Irish cob, 6 geese, 8 call ducks, 6 turkeys and a fair few cuckoo and black copper maran chickens- not to mention the cats dogs and ferrets etc.
We are currently getting the land sorted out, I think its been neglected for a long time and has a lot of rushes growing over most of it and the fencing in most parts is terrible. We've had ditches dug and a pond put in the wettest field, which has made a big difference.
Once the fields are ready I hope to get my first small flock of sheep - we have a fair bit of work to do first!