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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: chrismahon on December 26, 2011, 04:24:34 pm

Title: Hello from Staffordshire
Post by: chrismahon on December 26, 2011, 04:24:34 pm

Hello everyone. We live nearby the very noisy A38 with half an acre to play with. So definitely not a smallholding, possibly a microholding. We used to keep a couple of Jacobs and then Texels who timeshared with the chickens. But as the chicken numbers increased we had to stop with the sheep. Most of the area is Orchard with a wide variety in it and a veggy plot kept extremely fertile with well rotted chicken poo. We do breed Utility Pedigree Wyandotte chickens and sell our eggs to the seasonal passing Canalboat trade. Also have Leghorn Bantams for our eggs plus others. The small area is very intensively managed to squeeze as much out of it as possible. Last year we sold 112lbs of Cherries plus some Greengages -the Plums and Damsons were poor. Might try selling the Rhubarb this year.
Look forward to joining in with discussions. I'm a Plumber by trade, but prefer to talk about chickens.

Chris

Title: Re: Hello from Staffordshire
Post by: robert waddell on December 26, 2011, 04:53:49 pm

hello from central Scotland     i am sure your plumbing skills and advice will be sought by some on here  ;) :farmer:

Title: Re: Hello from Staffordshire
Post by: lill on December 26, 2011, 05:31:24 pm

Hi Chris, welcome to the forum from a very windy central scotland  :wave: :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from Staffordshire
Post by: SallyintNorth on December 26, 2011, 10:52:54 pm

Hi Chris and welcome from north Cumbria  :wave: 

I'm Black Country born and bred but haven't lived in the Midlands for more than thirty years.  My folks are now near Lichfield, so I get down that way now and again.

Welcome to the forum  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from Staffordshire
Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 27, 2011, 12:33:05 am

 :wave:  Hello from Telford so not far from you.  I would definitely class your half acre as a small holding since my back garden in my micro holding.  Still manage to keep goats and grow veg and fruit in it.

We travel on the A38 quite often on our way to Derby.  Whereabouts are you?

Title: Re: Hello from Staffordshire
Post by: manian on December 27, 2011, 09:01:22 am

hi
from the top end of the a38 in derbyshire
we are just north of derby

Title: Re: Hello from Staffordshire
Post by: Rosemary on December 27, 2011, 03:28:24 pm

Hello and welcome from Carnoustie  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from Staffordshire
Post by: Dan on December 27, 2011, 03:31:47 pm

Hello Chris, welcome to the forum.  :wave:

Sounds like a smallholding to me too!  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Hello from Staffordshire
Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 27, 2011, 10:17:05 pm

Quote from: manian on December 27, 2011, 09:01:22 am

hi
from the top end of the a38 in derbyshire
we are just north of derby

I know.  We usually go off onto A50 to go to Chellaston but also take our caravan to Carsington twice a year.

Title: Re: Hello from Staffordshire
Post by: thenovice on December 27, 2011, 11:33:15 pm

Hi, and welcome from crowded kent  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from Staffordshire
Post by: chrismahon on December 28, 2011, 05:34:32 pm

Hello all. We are just South of Burton. We lived in Derby for 20 years, moved out to Ashbourne then down to Lichfield for 3 years. I worked in Brierley Hill 3 years, and stayed in Cradley. So I might know some of you? Oh, and I do voluntary at Blists Hill Victorian Town as a Plumber occasionally.

Title: Re: Hello from Staffordshire
Post by: Miss Piggy on December 28, 2011, 11:01:11 pm

Welcome from West Wales, right on the coast. Sunny but cold day today.

Title: Re: Hello from Staffordshire
Post by: Black Raven on December 28, 2011, 11:07:41 pm

Hello  :wave: I'm new too and love chickens  :D

Title: Re: Hello from Staffordshire
Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 29, 2011, 01:16:11 pm

Quote from: chrismahon on December 28, 2011, 05:34:32 pm

Hello all. We are just South of Burton. We lived in Derby for 20 years, moved out to Ashbourne then down to Lichfield for 3 years. I worked in Brierley Hill 3 years, and stayed in Cradley. So I might know some of you? Oh, and I do voluntary at Blists Hill Victorian Town as a Plumber occasionally.

We live just up the road from Blists Hill.  When you're next there, if you fancy popping in for a cuppa and a chat PM me a day or two before.