The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: goosepimple on July 10, 2011, 02:02:04 pm
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Was on hols last week and visited the Cotswold Farm Park (Adam Henson's Farm) and bought a Herdwick fleece in an old feed bag for £5 (going to make felt out of it). Its very nice and clean and was my holiday purchase so was worth it to me - they had all sorts of fleeces to buy, anything from £5 to £10.
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What are you going to do with it? My friend has some of those and they are lovely.
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Going to make felt as a project with the kids over the summer (kids are 8 and 10 and like mixing and messing, and so do I). I've got my own Soay fleece collected from their field as they have been self shearing but I don't really have enough, so will add the Herdwick - actually it would make a convincing hairpiece for all those scalp challenged male smallholders out there - that you doganjo? ;D ;D
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actually it would make a convincing hairpiece for all those scalp challenged male smallholders out there - that you doganjo? ;D ;D
Actually I have a full head of white hair, and I think it's more often men that go bald isn't it? ;) ;D
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oops, sorry dog ;D, didn't notice your signature below - now that's interesting, maybe we should have a guessing game about who is what on the website.
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PS - white's the new black remember ;)
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PS - white's the new black remember ;)
I have asked both my previous haridresser and my present one to change my hair colour ;D without success, and both refused point blank to have anything more to do with me if I did it myself. ::) They say my white hair is so clear that it is unusual. I've been white since I was 30 - two weeks after the birth of my son!
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Oh Annie don't change your hair colour. I am particularly non-fond of that terrible red that ladies of middle years suddenly acquire ;D
Looking forward to seeing your Soay + Herdwick felting Goosepimple 8)
ps - why is this in 'poultry'?
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oh is it? apologies, a bit tired today as just back from my hols and my computer skills are not up to relocating it I'm afraid - oh well, a loose thread...
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No probs - it keeps Dan busy moving things around and tidying up behind us ;D ;D
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i was wondering why it was in poultry as well :wave:
now Adam must be chasing the coin he was on country file saying that fleeces were 7p per kilo with an average weight of one and a half kilos perfleece i am sure they were herdwicks as well
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don't know the weight of this but it looks like a full fleece from 1 sheep - there were quite a few for £10!
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£10 is a perfectly normal price for a good clean fleece.
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ps - why is this in 'poultry'?
I clicked on this expecting to find a new use for rough fleeces in poultry bedding or insulating their housing!
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i was wondering why it was in poultry as well :wave:
now Adam must be chasing the coin he was on country file saying that fleeces were 7p per kilo with an average weight of one and a half kilos perfleece i am sure they were herdwicks as well
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At £3500 plus expenses plus VAT for a show attendance, I suspect his fleece income has reduced in importance. Plus we also have the AH branded range of animal health products to help things along ;D
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Good luck to him, wish it were me.