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Title: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: blonde on February 20, 2011, 07:00:48 am

HI all I have just joined this new forum.  I live in the Wheat belt  Western Australia. I  have my own chickens, my organic vegetable patch,  a free range  piggery and a few cows.  A couple of dogs and a couple of cats (and a bunch of kittens right now).  Best of all I live 3 hours out of the city with plenty of room to run......and clean air to breath.

We have had strange weather this past summer...hot days 42 - 45 degrees C, windy days, cyclones that peta out to lows and rain bearing depressions, overcast days, falling to a  cool day  of say 32 degrees C.   Too much for me and the pigs this year.  Dont seem to get used to the temp, and so feel the heat more this year than in previous years.    We could do with a good dousing....unlike the eastern part of Australia.   We have not had that much rain here in the wheat belt and we live on a sandy hill so will never flood.  We dont have any creeks either, so water is from the ground via a bore.  Rain water for me to drink only.   

Title: Re: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: garden cottage on February 20, 2011, 07:12:00 am

Hi and welcome, think were very lucky in the uk that we do get a good mix of weather and dont suffer the extremes of other countries. but the way things are going change could be on the way.............. ::)

Title: Re: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: Rosemary on February 20, 2011, 08:26:17 am

Hi and welcome from damp Carnoustie  :wave:

Title: Re: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: Hilarysmum on February 20, 2011, 09:36:29 am

Hi Blonde nice to see you on here  :D :D

Title: Re: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: Cinderhills on February 20, 2011, 09:50:49 am

Hi and welcome from North Yorkshire.  :wave:  I have a sister who lives in Oz, but in Adelaide.

Title: Re: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: robert waddell on February 20, 2011, 02:22:41 pm

hello blonde from central scotland i have a friend in your part of oz    willie ford in bassendean   are you still getting a good price for your pigs and do you still supply the asian market    you will fit in well here going by your other posts  just keep piggin about

Title: Re: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: faith0504 on February 20, 2011, 02:27:20 pm

hi and welcome from moray  :wave:

Title: Re: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: sabrina on February 20, 2011, 05:12:46 pm

Hello and welcome from Banff in the North East of Scotland where it is cold ,wet and windy most of the time  :wave:

Title: Re: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: JulieS on February 20, 2011, 05:35:18 pm

Hello and welcome from Devon  :)

Title: Re: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: Daisys Mum on February 20, 2011, 06:11:58 pm

Hi and welcome fromthe Scottish Borders where it is beginning to feel as if the rain will never stop. :wave:

Title: Re: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: Sandy on February 20, 2011, 11:30:12 pm

Hello blonde :wave:, we just get loads of wet stuff, rain and snow  :(  I have one daughter in the Blue mountains and another hopeing to join her out  your way, the oppertunities for young people are fastly drying up here, they hope to do some small holding type thing, although they also will have a trade to enable them to enter the country.....at leat the internet connects us all, welcome, from Clackmannan :wave:

Title: Re: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: Lostlambs on February 21, 2011, 12:21:43 pm

Hi and welcome from the wheat prairies of Canada-I just lately joined.We have -41C this morning with the wind c-c-chill so summer sounds heavenly right now.My pigs are burrowed in straw to keep warm :wave:

Title: Re: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: blonde on February 21, 2011, 02:28:37 pm

Hey guys, thanks for the warm welcome....I would love to have a picture of my favorite animal  on my name but just cant seem to work it out..... not a good start....can any one shed some light on this for me.   I have my message but not the photo...... ??? :pig

Title: Re: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: bloomer on February 21, 2011, 03:01:22 pm

i think the images have to be really small

Title: Re: Wheat belt in Western Australia
Post by: chrispy4949 on February 22, 2011, 07:37:04 am

Hi welcome to TAS . from chrispy in Bulgaria  :wave: