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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: weewooliewifie on April 06, 2013, 02:18:51 pm

Title: Hello there!
Post by: weewooliewifie on April 06, 2013, 02:18:51 pm

Stumbled across your site!  Hope you have room for a wee one!

So, I've managed to "acquire" 14 ewes due to lamb any day soon.  I do have previous experience with sheep having worked on several sheep farms about 100 years ago.

I'm having a panic that that I've forgotten EVERYTHING!!

Title: Re: Hello there!
Post by: spandit on April 06, 2013, 03:22:09 pm

Plenty of room, welcome!

Title: Re: Hello there!
Post by: SallyintNorth on April 06, 2013, 03:23:51 pm

Always room for another sheepkeeper!

Tell us about your 14...

Title: Re: Hello there!
Post by: weewooliewifie on April 06, 2013, 03:59:55 pm

Thank you for the warm welcome!

I live on a 250 acre farm, we used to have a dairy herd but had to come out of milk 5 years ago.  So now we have a beef herd, and my Father in Law (in his wisdom) decided to buy 14 sheep as grass cutters!

They are a mix of suffolk/cheviot/unknown crosses.  12 ewes and 2 gimmers, apparently in lamb to a texel...  They came of a croft somewhere in the hills and are surprisingly tame.

Hoping it all comes flooding back to me when the first wee lamb appears!

Title: Re: Hello there!
Post by: Sudanpan on April 06, 2013, 04:15:40 pm

I'm sure keeping sheep is like riding a bike - you never forget!  :excited:


Good luck and keep us posted  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Hello there!
Post by: The Mobile Butcher on April 07, 2013, 12:59:47 pm

Hi From Whitby- North Yorkshire :wave:

Title: Re: Hello there!
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 07, 2013, 03:24:26 pm

 :wave: and welcome from sunny Shropshire.  All welcome here.