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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: Dicky on October 23, 2012, 01:45:34 pm

Title: Hi From Norfolk
Post by: Dicky on October 23, 2012, 01:45:34 pm

Hi all,
Have enjoyed looking round the site so thought I would join as it looks like there will be some really helpful information around.

Last year my wife and I bought a house with my parents with 4.5 acres of beautiful Norfolk countryside to fufil a dream of having a smallholding, and a perfect place to raise our kids.  We currently have chickens, geese, ornamental ducks, a horse, dogs, a big vege patch and 3 young children.

Our next project is probably going to be raising pigs, which I'm hoping to do after the winter, so there is bound to be some questions around that subject over the coming months.  I'd also really love to get in to beekeeping, and goats for milk and cheese.

Have a good day.

Title: Re: Hi From Norfolk
Post by: kja on October 23, 2012, 02:47:57 pm

 :wave:from neighbouring cambridgeshire we breed pigs & parents breed goats both for showing so any questions give us a call

Title: Re: Hi From Norfolk
Post by: bloomer on October 23, 2012, 02:56:26 pm

welcome from a chilly but dry central scotland!!!

Title: Re: Hi From Norfolk
Post by: Wendy@blueborage on October 23, 2012, 03:40:57 pm

Hello from further down south in East Anglia (Essex!)  Good luck with everything.

Wendy@BlueBorage

blueborage.blogspot.com

Title: Re: Hi From Norfolk
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 23, 2012, 08:51:59 pm

 :wave: Hi from across the country in Shropshire.  Definitely go for goats.  they are great fun as well as being productive.  And the milk  :yum: :yum:

Title: Re: Hi From Norfolk
Post by: ballingall on October 23, 2012, 09:43:00 pm

Hello and welcome from central Scotland  :wave:


Sounds like you have a nice place.


Beth

Title: Re: Hi From Norfolk
Post by: SallyintNorth on October 24, 2012, 07:05:00 am

Hi from a drear norh Cumbria  :wave:

Sounds like a great place to rear the children.  :)    We're a beef and sheep farm, so a house cow wasn't too big a thing for us to handle - but on 4.5 acres goats sound much more appropriate!  :D

We keep a few pigs for our freezer (and family and friends), so I'll look forward to hearing about your piggy ventures next year.

I thought I would get into beekeeping a few years ago (in my previous life) when I first got an allotment - but then I discovered that bees travel up to 3km (is it ?  or is it 3 miles? can't remember now) from the hive, and the regional beekeeper had 50,000 bees within 0.5km of my allotment, so there was no need whatsoever!   ;D

Title: Re: Hi From Norfolk
Post by: speedywheelz on October 26, 2012, 07:10:02 pm

Hi from Norfolk also where about in Norfolk are you?

Title: Re: Hi From Norfolk
Post by: bangbang on October 26, 2012, 07:22:03 pm

Hi! :wave:

Warm welcome from snowy Aberdeenshire! :snowman:

Title: Re: Hi From Norfolk
Post by: downsized on October 26, 2012, 07:31:46 pm

welcome from driech Dumfries. You're safe I know absolutely nothing about pigs, goats or ducks :P

Title: Re: Hi From Norfolk
Post by: Factotum on October 27, 2012, 01:18:40 am

Hi to you from snowy Moray

We've had pigs,dogs, chickens,geese, ducks, pigs, cats, cattle and sheep. No kids goats or an other.

Norfolk use to local to us,but now we've moved to somewhere with a few more contours on the map...

Good luck with your ventures.

Sue

Title: Re: Hi From Norfolk
Post by: gillsta on October 27, 2012, 07:56:01 am

A warm welcome despite the cold rotten weather here in Aberdeenshire.  :wave: