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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: WhiteHorses on April 30, 2013, 05:32:44 pm

Title: Hello from Scotland (West Lothian)
Post by: WhiteHorses on April 30, 2013, 05:32:44 pm

Hello all

My partner and I are buying a house with 6 acres in West Lothian, moving in mid May. This means I finally get to achieve my dream of having land. Day one we will have my 2 PRE (Andalusian) horses, border collie and cat. Planning to then get a few sheep, chickens and maybe some others eventually. Plus dig a vegetable garden. The house is on one of the West Lothian Lowland Crofting schemes, (un-viable farms are allowed to be divided into a few plots with land to encourage horse owners, hobby smallholding etc to move there) but no one has done anything with the bulk of the land since it ceased to be a farm. It's pretty wet at present so drainage is high on the list of to dos.

I have some experience of sheep, chickens,ducks and veg, but am looking forward to picking your brains and sharing experiences  :)

Title: Re: Hello from Scotland (West Lothian)
Post by: HappyHippy on April 30, 2013, 07:12:45 pm

Hello and welcome to TAS from me in South Lanarkshire  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from Scotland (West Lothian)
Post by: happygolucky on April 30, 2013, 07:13:40 pm

 :wave:  Hi from Clackmannan :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Hello from Scotland (West Lothian)
Post by: Rosemary on April 30, 2013, 07:18:51 pm

Hello and welcome from  :sunshine: Carnoustie  :wave:

Title: Re: Hello from Scotland (West Lothian)
Post by: SheepCrazy! on April 30, 2013, 09:37:22 pm

Hello and welcome from Dumfries and Galloway :sunshine:

Title: Re: Hello from Scotland (West Lothian)
Post by: Lesley Silvester on April 30, 2013, 09:44:31 pm

 :wave: from south of the border (well south) in almost sunny Shropshire. Looking forward to hearing more about your holding. Will you be living on the land?

Title: Re: Hello from Scotland (West Lothian)
Post by: mojocafa on April 30, 2013, 09:48:40 pm

Hi from arbroath

Title: Re: Hello from Scotland (West Lothian)
Post by: WhiteHorses on April 30, 2013, 09:57:23 pm

Hi All :innocent:

Quote from: Mad Goatwoman of Madeley on April 30, 2013, 09:44:31 pm

:wave: from south of the border (well south) in almost sunny Shropshire. Looking forward to hearing more about your holding. Will you be living on the land?

Yes it has a nice big house on it which was what sold it to Doug, my partner. He's also looking forward to feeding the wood burning stoves. I've been underplaying the amount of work the animals will be  :innocent: Although to be honest I'm happy to do most of it myself.

Title: Re: Hello from Scotland (West Lothian)
Post by: bigchicken on April 30, 2013, 10:32:28 pm

Hello and welcome from the bigchicken from over the forth just outside Dunfermline. best of luck in your new adventure.