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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: welshmatt88 on June 05, 2011, 07:23:20 pm

Title: Hi there everyone
Post by: welshmatt88 on June 05, 2011, 07:23:20 pm

Hi everyone, am new here so thought id better introduce myself, although in reality im a larger scale livestock farmer,with 1300 ewes and 100 suckler cows, ive recently started trying to do a bit of "small holding" in the small paddocks that surround my house, so will be asking for your advice on Pigs and chickens which i have not a great deal of experience with , and i also hope to help out with my experience and give advice on the sheep and cattle side of things (and no doubt learn a thing or too also !)

Title: Re: Hi there everyone
Post by: doganjo on June 05, 2011, 08:06:21 pm

Welcome to the forum. Smallholding is a state of mind I think - not the size of your property.  I'm in Central Scotland and only have ducks and chickens (apart from 4 brittanys and a cat) so not a smallholder in th truest sense of the word either.

Title: Re: Hi there everyone
Post by: CameronS on June 05, 2011, 08:12:49 pm

Hello and welcome from fife  :wave:

Title: Re: Hi there everyone
Post by: Crofter on June 06, 2011, 08:10:38 am

Hi and welcome. You'll find loads of heplful people on here!

Dave, Isle of Lewis.

Title: Re: Hi there everyone
Post by: Hilarysmum on June 06, 2011, 10:18:15 am

hi welcome.  I keep pigs, chickens and ducks  ;)

Title: Re: Hi there everyone
Post by: SallyintNorth on June 06, 2011, 01:02:15 pm

Hi there kindred spirit!  We farm beef and sheep in north Cumbria - not quite on your scale (we've 300 ewes & 30 suckler cows) but I describe myself as a 'closet smallholder' on the side. 

We're just trying to get our gilt in pig & have just started eating our very first home-cured gammon ham; the Jersey house cow is working out brilliantly; I've given up with ducks for the mo as we seem to have a mink problem; there's always been chickens here but I have plans for table birds (if I can sort the mink problem...) and he has plans for fantail pigeons and also geese. 

There's a tremendous resource and a lot of fun here - welcome!   :wave:

Title: Re: Hi there everyone
Post by: Rosemary on June 06, 2011, 01:24:33 pm

OK, since you ask nice, you can join  ;D We'll not hold the 1300 sheep against you. So to speak  ::)

Welcome from sunnyish Carnoustie  :wave:

We have Ryeland sheep - if I ever get the registrations sorted out  >:(, two Shetland heifers, poultry and ponies. And a veg garden, to which I am now returning.

Title: Re: Hi there everyone
Post by: lill on June 07, 2011, 07:52:17 am

hi and welcome from central scotland