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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: Daveravey on July 23, 2009, 04:20:52 pm

Title: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: Daveravey on July 23, 2009, 04:20:52 pm: Hi everyone,

Just thought i'd better get this 1st post over & done with.

I'm living with my partner & our 3 kids in central Scotland at the moment, currently without land ( unless you can call our veg patch land lol.

I was brought up & worked our farm until my dad sold up 20 years ago & i moved into haulage.

Gave that up to help look after our disabled daughter a couple of years ago, now looking to rent somewhere with a few acres to grow some food for us all & get clean air into our lungs.

OK, that's enough slabbering from me.

Cheers.
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: jameslindsay on July 23, 2009, 04:47:27 pm: Hi and welcome, I hope your dream comes true soon.
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: doganjo on July 23, 2009, 06:35:41 pm: Look at the two pieces of land in the other thread - and how about joining us in CSSA (Central Scotland Smallholders Association) we aren't all smallholders - many of us just aspiring ones - I have a large garden, 4 dogs, a cat, 4 ducks, 6 hens and a cockerel plus four ex-battery hens about to join us, and a teeny veg patch and a just as teeny fruit bed
Welcome to the forum. It's informative, and fun!
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: Rosemary on July 23, 2009, 08:04:40 pm: Hi and welcome from Alloa. Where about are you in Central Scotland?
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: Daveravey on July 23, 2009, 08:05:56 pm: I'm in Ballingry...for ma sins :D

What other thread doganjo
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: lara on July 23, 2009, 09:51:24 pm: Hi D a warm welcome from sunny Lincolnshire. :)
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: sandy on July 23, 2009, 10:10:03 pm: Hello from another Central Scotland wanna be smallholder!!!!
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: doganjo on July 23, 2009, 10:21:27 pm: Quote from: Daveravey on July 23, 2009, 08:05:56 pm
I'm in Ballingry...for ma sins :D

What other thread doganjo

http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php/topic,3502.msg29981.html#msg29981
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: northfifeduckling on July 23, 2009, 10:29:32 pm: Hello and welcome from North Fife ! Most of us started small ! :) :&>
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: sandy on July 23, 2009, 10:33:11 pm: I certainly started off small, now I'm a BIG GIRL!!!!! oh, do you mean smallholding? I ment me ;)
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: northfifeduckling on July 23, 2009, 10:37:39 pm: both ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: doganjo on July 23, 2009, 10:55:01 pm: I started off big and stayed that way! I was 9lbs when I was born. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: Daveravey on July 24, 2009, 01:25:51 pm: Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome.

Thanks doganjo for the link ;D
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: karen and her chickaboos on July 24, 2009, 09:01:59 pm: Hello,

I'm new to all of this having just bought 3 chickens a few weeks ago. I live in Kirkcaldy and i am a keen mother hen awaitig her 1st egg!!! none so far despite loads of TLC!!
any ideas of where im going wrong? will i
ever get eggs or do some chickens never lay??
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: doganjo on July 24, 2009, 09:04:54 pm: What age were they when you got them? Different breeds start laying at different times but it averages at about 6 months. How many you get depends on breed too - some lay every day, some less often, occasionally more.
Welcome to the forum, lots of lovely and knowledgeable people on here.
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: karen and her chickaboos on July 24, 2009, 09:09:44 pm: Hi Guys,

I have very little knowledge but lots of enthusiasm for chickaboos and dogs. I live in Kirkcaldy, I know you are close?

K
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: lara on July 24, 2009, 09:11:56 pm: Hi Karen , welcome to you and your chickaboos.
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: karen and her chickaboos on July 24, 2009, 09:22:53 pm: thanks for that. my girlies are young and of course I dont want to have unrealistic expectatons of my babies!!
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: sandy on July 24, 2009, 09:25:59 pm: If you trawl back through posts you will see we nearly all have great expectations when we get our first Chickens, you'll get some lovely eggs one day soon, I seem to Wait ages and ages, I think they were 24-26 weeks old and they lay nearly every day since and of course I now have some more!!!!
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: lara on July 24, 2009, 09:37:57 pm: Oh I cant wait to move so we can get some chooks :chook:- really disapointed today .... we had hoped to complete on house purchase today - which was postponed till early next week, >:( went to see solicitor today and still waiting for paperwork to come back so now wont be till weds 5th Aug.......pooh, pooh ,pooh., I'm getting bored at home now. :(
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: MM on July 24, 2009, 10:55:59 pm: Hello from another newbie in Scotland! Although I probably more on the edge of.....
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: doganjo on July 24, 2009, 11:09:45 pm: on the edge of what - Scotland, the World, disaster, your seat, your nerves ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D He he - welcome to you to MM if I haven't already said so. sorry about my sense of humour - doesn't suit everyone! ;)
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: Farmer on July 25, 2009, 12:09:21 am: Hi and welcome Daveravey...you too karen and her chickaboos...this thread is like the old telephone party lines, where one conversation got mixed up with another...anyway, I'm sure you have both...all... found a place of friendship

Farmer
:farmer:
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: lara on July 25, 2009, 06:06:45 pm: Hi and welcome to you MM.
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: Hilarysmum on July 26, 2009, 09:22:10 am: Hi and welcome :pig:
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: karen and her chickaboos on July 26, 2009, 06:58:08 pm: Hello all and thanks for the welcome and information. Guess what I found in the coop this morning???? My very 1st egg!! I'm chuffed to bits!!! Can't eat it yet as there are still one or two more people to show it off to!!
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: doganjo on July 26, 2009, 07:03:01 pm: Congratulations, Karen - the first of many, but the first is the most special one. I still find it exciting looking for eggs in the morning!
Title: Re: Greetings From Sunny Scotland
Post by: sandy on July 26, 2009, 10:20:35 pm: It is like finding little pressies everywhere, I love it too and my partner sell them all over Glasgow!!!!!