The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: bethjames on November 21, 2011, 11:56:57 am
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Hello ;D
Originally from Ammanford I moved with my father to just South of Carmarthen near Kidwelly just over 2 years ago from the Midlands in England.
Slowly but surely we reinstated our smallholding with Oxford Sandy and Black pigs instead of Gloucestershire Old Spots as previously. We now have regular litters with one set of youngsters ready to go soon and a boar starting work as a stud - and thoroughly enjoying himself! :D
We also have a small herd of non-short Dexter cattle with cattle regularly for sale in-calf/with calves at foot. A handful of Black Rock hens that provide us with a steady stream of eggs - and no excuse not to bake! ::)
I also have 3 dogs of my own - 2 yellow bitch labs and a young springer spaniel dog. I train and compete with these of working gundogs - and should be having a litter from my eldest bitch in the New Year if she behaves :P She's doing fantastically in the competitive world and recently won a championship through heats in England and Wales. I also run a petsitting company mainly catering for small farms and smallholdings in Carmarthenshire.
Not forgetting my father's old - and now blind - black lab bitch and the 2 farm cats!
Beth ;D
www.bancyboblenanimalcare.co.uk (http://www.bancyboblenanimalcare.co.uk)
www.cilwg.co.uk (http://www.cilwg.co.uk)
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helloo from a herefordian living in cornwall! :wave:
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Hello and welcome from misty Carnoustie :wave:
We have a few members that are real dog fanatics - I quite like mine :) - and a couple that do gundoggy things.
I'll look forward to hearing all about your place and sharing experiences.
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Thanks for the welcome :)
Not a lot happening today, just keeping an eye on the latest litter of piglets and organising the meat for the next couple of fatteners due for slaughter.
Everything's fairly well behaved today :thumbsup: Even the crazy springer pup :o
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Hi Bethjames :wave:
Welcome to the forum from the otherside of Carmarthen... Misty but not wet here.
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:wave: Hi and welcome from foggy Telford. We have one and a half labs. The other half is GSD. Also three goats and a budgie.
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Hi also from Carmarthenshire! I am in Cross Hands so not far. May be in touch about the pet sitting as we are planning a slow move North.
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Hi guys!
Aw MG of M, I bet your lab x GSD is a lovely beast :) I'm actually looking at the possibility of having a few goats one day :)
Chris H feel free to get in touch, I'm quite often up near Cross Hands :) Not crossing the border North are you? :o haha
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Yep, pretty North.........Isle of Lewis! :)
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Wow, you definitely meant North!! :o haha
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Hi from sunny (finally ::)) Pembs/Carms border :thumbsup: :wave:
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Hi and warm welcome from West Wales, just north of Cardigan on the coast. We have nonshort dexters and 5 welsh Pigs+ lots of different breeds of poultry. Cold here tonight but at least its not raining. :wave: :cow: :pig: :chook:
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Hi guys!
Aw MG of M, I bet your lab x GSD is a lovely beast :) I'm actually looking at the possibility of having a few goats one day :)
She's actually known as the Black Blighter cos she can be a pest (but can't they all?) - really name (Crazy) Daisy. The lab is my OH's guide dog and called Victor or Vicko the thicko - his brain is in his harness and when that comes off........ ;D
You'll find plenty of info about goats on here. I've been keeping them for eight years and wouldn't be without now. Mine are pure Sanaans, a very placid breed. The youngest is crossed with a Bristish Alpine and a right menace. His name is Curry as we aren't planning on having him for long - not in his present form anyway.
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Haha aren't all dogs tho :) we all have the days where they drive us crazy but we'd never change them for the world haha.
Do you keep them mainly for meat then or a bit of both? (ie milk and meat) - the goats that is, not the dogs... ;)
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;D Have thought about slaughtering the dogs a few times. The goats are mainly for milk. I did tell her she was to have a female kid but did she listen?
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Do they ever?? :P
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Nope! ;)
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Hello from West-wales.
Just wondered do you just do day visits or overnights stops too and what area do you cover? I only want to know, in case I get someone asking down near you and i'm fully booked, i can pass them on to you then :)
I also sit/manage smallholdings and farms, Its a great job isnt it ;D