The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: farmerswag on October 03, 2008, 10:24:55 pm
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Hi everyone
Kept horses all my life and got a few sheep to pick down the grass when the horses moved fields, well......................
Now have a pedigree flock of Llyens consisting of 45 breeding ewes, 6 wedders, 10 gimmers and a tup, how it happened I really don't know ??? ???
However after a good first year of breed and raising our own sheep, I must say I rather enjoy it except when they escape, mine are experts!!!
Other than the sheep I have a wonderful OH who is a real farmer ::) ::), some terriers - no use as sheep dogs no matter how hard you try, 7 horses, a small boy and a real job too. Love my lot tho and wouldn't swap it for the world
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Hello,
Wow you must be kept be pretty busy! I hope your little boy enjoys helping out with all the animals too. Whereabouts are you? I live just outside Falkirk.
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Hi and welcome.
Sounds like a real handful you have there. How do you cope? I always feel like I'm neglecting someone and I've less to do than you. Any tips welcome!
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Welcome from Normandy, and suggest you find a quiet corner and put your feet up occasionally!
Kate :pig:
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My lil one loves helping out with everything especially when it involves tractors or mud, his sheep chasing :sheep: :sheep: is coming on a treat tho, he has perfected the art of standing in a field waving a stick and shouting his head off while the sheep run in every direction but the one you want. He isn't even 2 yet!!! ;D ;D
As for keeping up with everything, I don't think there is a secret to it, always lived a non stop lifestyle so I suppose its just normal. Just to add a bit more drama incase we were lacking in things to do we had a calf that was born yesterday morn when it was 4 degrees, brrrrr. Mum had hidden behind the hay rack in the calving field and we couldn't see her from the house. Only discovered that she had started calving when a lorry came in about and told us, anyway tired mum and calf with swollen head :( he doesn't want to get up and suckle so he is being tubed atm, as if one baby boy wasn't enough.
We live just outside Aberdeen, close to a wee village called Stonehaven. My family have around 50 acres while the OH has about 550!!! Thankfully our land borders each others so makes it alot easier
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Hello & Welcome,
Your little boy sounds an absolute delight, I think it's so nice to see young children with animals - give him a few more years & he'll have it down to a tee!!
Good Luck with the new calf :cow:
RegardsDonna
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hello from fws :) :sheep: