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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Me on February 06, 2014, 11:38:20 am

Title: Hello
Post by: Me on February 06, 2014, 11:38:20 am

Hello all, I am new to the forum and would like to say hello,  :wave: we live on the West coast of Wales and are smallholding hard, our main interest is sheep :sheep:, we keep a small but growing flock of 20 Charmoise Hill ewes, a small Lleyn/Lleyn cross flock of 80 (+/- !) for commercial lambs and sell a few tups and teasers each year.

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Rosemary on February 06, 2014, 11:54:29 am

Hello and welcome from Carnoustie  :wave: We have a small flock of Coloured Ryelands, a small herd of Shetland cattle and about 100 laying hens. Fun.

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Ladygrey on February 06, 2014, 12:06:11 pm

Hello from Stroud :)  :wave:

I keep a small amount of shetland and shetland cross ewes which I cross breed with Charollais and Charollais cross rams and I did breed kunekune pigs but due to lack of time had to give the pigs up.

I am picking up some Charmoise sheep this weekend from someone in West Wales....  :thinking:

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: wellies on February 06, 2014, 12:27:49 pm

Hello Me from Shropshire  :wave: we keep a small flock of Ryelands and Coloured Ryelands, pigs and chickens. looking forward to reading your posts  :thumbsup:

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Post by: mowhaugh on February 06, 2014, 01:44:44 pm

Hello!

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Post by: devonlad on February 06, 2014, 02:21:17 pm

Hello me, love the name. We're in devon. Got lleyns and lleyn x wilts . Lovely sheep to handle. Welcome aboard

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Post by: Me on February 06, 2014, 03:05:46 pm

Lived down there with the 11 fingered ones for a while - nice spot  :thumbsup:

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Post by: Me on February 06, 2014, 07:33:32 pm

Hi thanks for the welcome everyone :thumbsup:, it seems like a friendly site. If anyone is interested there is a Facebook site Charmoise Sheep Breeders with photos of some of the little critters. Me

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: wellies on February 07, 2014, 09:14:12 am

just looked up the Charmoise sheep, wow they're big!

Title: Re: Hello
Post by: Me on February 07, 2014, 01:42:08 pm

Nah they just look big in the photos, I try to stand close and point up make them look bigger ;) Ewes weigh in around 55kg rams around 75kg