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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: luminousbrit on January 15, 2011, 10:55:19 am

Title: Hello from Shropshire
Post by: luminousbrit on January 15, 2011, 10:55:19 am

Hi all,

I thought I'd better register as I have been browsing for a while and I have posted a question in the pig area.

I have kept chickens for a few years when I lived in Wolverhampton. We moved to a 3.5 acre smallholding in Shropshire 12 months ago and have doubled our chicken numbers and have a few quail.

Later in the year we are hoping to get our pigs, Large Blacks and possibly Middle Whites.

In the future we may expand our livestock to include Pygmy goats, Shropshire sheep, ducks, geese etc.

We also hope to be more self sufficient with our fruit and vegetables too.

Any other Shropshire smallholders here?

Title: Re: Hello from Shropshire
Post by: darkbrowneggs on January 15, 2011, 11:27:32 am

Hi there - I'm not in Shropshire but on the Herefordshire/ Worcestershire borders, so not too far from you.  Welcome to the site, :wave: I have not joined long ago, but already found it very interesting.

Middlewhites are my favourite pig - Berkshires maybe have a bit more character, and are very nice to look at, but the middlewhite makes beautiful pork, and they are nice and quiet to keep

All the best
Sue

Title: Re: Hello from Shropshire
Post by: morri2 on January 15, 2011, 11:52:41 am

Hello!!! Welcome from the other side of the border in north Wales! Again, not Shropshire, but were just the other side of the Berwyns.  Good luck with everything. :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from Shropshire
Post by: ballingall on January 15, 2011, 05:50:00 pm

Hello and welcome from a horrible windy and rainy central Scotland!



Best of luck with your expansions!


Beth

Title: Re: Hello from Shropshire
Post by: Rosemary on January 15, 2011, 05:53:24 pm

Hi and welcome from warm and wet Carnoustie  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from Shropshire
Post by: luminousbrit on January 15, 2011, 06:52:59 pm

Thank you to evertone for the welcomes  :)

Seems like a friendly bunch here ;D

I do like Berkshires but a friend a couple of miles away is breeding those, if fact she had one who gave birth to 12 piglets on Thursday  :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig:

Title: Re: Hello from Shropshire
Post by: Hilarysmum on January 16, 2011, 09:25:32 am

Hi welcome from Brittany.  GOS pigs are my favourite, but I do have a couple of large black gilts and a one off neutered large black male.  I find the Large Blacks to be slower growing than the GOS.  Will be interesting to hear of your experience.

Title: Re: Hello from Shropshire
Post by: cluckingnuts on January 16, 2011, 10:08:00 am

Hi from a wet + windy Wales, nothing new there then!

Title: Re: Hello from Shropshire
Post by: Nina on January 16, 2011, 05:40:18 pm

Hi from just over the border in Wales too - Just s/w of Oswestry... 

Title: Re: Hello from Shropshire
Post by: Bright Raven on January 16, 2011, 06:18:09 pm

Hi there from North Shropshire near Whitchurch, and Welcome.  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from Shropshire
Post by: little blue on January 16, 2011, 08:04:18 pm

hello and welcome :)

Title: Re: Hello from Shropshire
Post by: Daisys Mum on January 17, 2011, 07:23:09 pm

Hello and welcome from the Scottish Borders  :wave: I have had Pietrains Saddlebacks and Osb's and they were all lovely to keep, this year I think that I will try GOS.