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Title: Hello from wales!
Post by: muddyhill on February 10, 2013, 08:29:52 pm

Hello,

I've been lurking a while and thought I ought to say hi!

We've a small smallholding 3.5 acres on the edge of the black mountains, just outside Abergavenny.

We've been here 6 months and often veer between overwhelmed and overexcited!

We have four ducks, 2 cats and 7 visiting sheep who are due to leave this week.

We have plans for sheep (grazing and meat), goats (dairy) and pigs (meat), and maybe starting with some pet lambs in the next weeks from a local farmer who gives away orphaned lambs.

I don't really know any other smallholders locally and friends and family think we are nuts  :eyelashes: so I'm hoping to feel less loopy here!  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from wales!
Post by: Carl f k on February 10, 2013, 08:34:29 pm

U deffo on the rite forum..welcome from west mids :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from wales!
Post by: Lesley Silvester on February 10, 2013, 10:04:17 pm

 :wave: Hi and welcome from soggy Shropshire.  You live in a lovely part and there are more TASers who also live in South Wales and no doubt will pop up to say hello soon.  I'm all in favour of goats, as you can probably guess.   ;D   I have Sanaans - just two at the moment but I'm a back garden smallholder so not room for too many.  I also grow fruit and veg.

Title: Re: Hello from wales!
Post by: darkbrowneggs on February 10, 2013, 10:46:13 pm

Hi there - I can probably see you from my garden  :wave:  - well at least I can see Sugarloaf and Hay Bluff, though it is a long way away  :D

Title: Re: Hello from wales!
Post by: Mammyshaz on February 10, 2013, 11:13:45 pm

Hello and welcome from Durham  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from wales!
Post by: Bionic on February 11, 2013, 09:31:48 am

Hi and welcome from Carmarthenshire  :wave:  We have been here for a year on 16th Feb so no more experienced than you are.
We have 3  :&> 7  :chook: 2 geese and 5  :sheep: (soon to be more when they lamb). We had 2  :pig: last year but they are now in the freezer.
Sally

Title: Re: Hello from wales!
Post by: in the hills on February 11, 2013, 09:46:28 am

 :wave:  Welcome from Powys

Title: Re: Hello from wales!
Post by: Blinkers on February 11, 2013, 11:59:08 am

Hello and welcome from Carms/Pembs border  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from wales!
Post by: rockstar on February 11, 2013, 07:41:16 pm

hi from our family, you will learn so much off this forum everyone is so helpfull. we are south of builth wells in the wye valley. good luck :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from wales!
Post by: muddyhill on February 12, 2013, 09:48:10 am

Thank you for such a lovely welcome  :wave: :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Hello from wales!
Post by: Tregwyr on February 15, 2013, 10:20:00 pm

Hello muddyhill! Pretty muddy here too, in Swansea. We have piglets and chickens at the mo. Hoping to get some geese, ducks and lambs in the spring!

Title: Re: Hello from wales!
Post by: tricetra on February 22, 2013, 12:48:18 pm

Hi and welcome From Llangynidr,

we have been on our Small holding for 4 years, we have pigs, sheep, ducks and chickens.

Just ask if you need anything, we are not that far from you guys. just joined this forum today myself just to share stuff with other like-minded people. :-)

Title: Re: Hello from wales!
Post by: FiB on February 26, 2013, 10:26:47 am

Hello from Bala!  Exciting isnt it!