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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: Brandi on January 18, 2013, 09:11:06 pm

Title: Hello from Llangernyw, Conwy
Post by: Brandi on January 18, 2013, 09:11:06 pm

I have had the pleasure of benefiting from the forum, so thought it time to start contributing! If I can of course. As part of a revisited childhood we have a few acres with a few shorthorn cattle (whilst growing up on a smallholding we always had a shorthorn cow) and a few stabilisers, 12 badger face sheep and two black & white cobs, which my stone mason husband insists eat a balanced diet of grass and £20 notes!

We're finding it difficult to get our heifers in calf! Not quite as simple as we thought! We've had help from many kind people including the loan of a Badger face ram- for the sheep!

Title: Re: Hello from Llangernyw, Conwy
Post by: Lesley Silvester on January 18, 2013, 10:08:33 pm

Hi and welcome from Snowy Shropshire.  I love the look of the badger face sheep.

Title: Re: Hello from Llangernyw, Conwy
Post by: Brandi on January 18, 2013, 10:37:03 pm

Thank you for your welcome

Yes, as the badger face sheep walk in a semi circle up over the brow of the hill towards us in the morning they remind us of the old western movies and the depiction of the red indians with their painted faces!

Title: Re: Hello from Llangernyw, Conwy
Post by: Mammyshaz on January 19, 2013, 08:01:23 am

Hello and welcome from Durham  :wave: just a few hens and  plots of fruit and veg.

Title: Re: Hello from Llangernyw, Conwy
Post by: Bert on January 19, 2013, 09:06:44 am

Hi from the Isle of Mull  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from Llangernyw, Conwy
Post by: Bionic on January 19, 2013, 09:27:02 am

Hi and welcome from a snowy Carmarthenshire  :wave:
Sally

Title: Re: Hello from Llangernyw, Conwy
Post by: Rosemary on January 19, 2013, 10:34:16 am

Welcome from sunny, snow showery Carnoustie :wave:

We have Shetland cattle - tried AI in year one, worked for one but not the other, who had to have "the real thing". This summer, we hired a Shetland bull and both were in calf withing four days of each other and on the first cycle with the bull. Go, Billy Bull  :thumbsup:

We've bought a bull for next year. Once they've had  a calf, I think it's easier because they don't carry as much weight - keeping Shetlands slim down here is a challenge.

Title: Re: Hello from Llangernyw, Conwy
Post by: deepinthewoods on January 19, 2013, 01:32:46 pm

hello from cornwall :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Hello from Llangernyw, Conwy
Post by: Possum on January 19, 2013, 08:10:06 pm

Hello from a snowy Somerset :wave:


Conwy is such a lovely place. How lucky to have a smallholding there! :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Hello from Llangernyw, Conwy
Post by: darkbrowneggs on January 19, 2013, 10:09:28 pm

Hi from cold white Worcestershire  :wave:
 
Love to see some piccies of your shorthorns, they were always around on the farms here before the friesians arrived.  Are they beef or dairy?

Title: Re: Hello from Llangernyw, Conwy
Post by: Brandi on January 19, 2013, 11:54:16 pm

Thank you all for your warm welcomes. Can anyone advise how to post ptotos?

Title: Re: Hello from Llangernyw, Conwy
Post by: tizaala on January 21, 2013, 08:42:17 am

Hi from LLandrindod Wells , When you click on the reply box you will see under it , "Attachments and other options " . Click this an follow the drop down menu , click Brouse , and seach "My Pictures " you might have to re-size to less than 512 kb each . maximum 4 . then simply "post"
Welcome aboard the good ship Madhouse  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Hello from Llangernyw, Conwy
Post by: Brandi on January 23, 2013, 10:07:12 am

Thank you from Llandrindod!

Dark brown eggs - I think the photo of Brocan (Roan) and her new born calf answers the question as to whether she is a beef or dairy type!

the other photo is a 18 month heifer taken last summer (Brocan Bach)