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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: bloomer on August 16, 2014, 07:32:27 pm

Title: i got sheep :-)
Post by: bloomer on August 16, 2014, 07:32:27 pm: At last

I have wante sheep forever and its been a serious plan for a while!

Today I collected 10 shetlands from Jaykay and am so happy!!!

When I get full internet back tuesday I will post pictures and about 40million questions!

Although as a starter if anyone in central scotland has an unrelated registered non black tup for sale can you pm me!
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Post by: Bionic on August 16, 2014, 07:38:04 pm: Well done :thumbsup: Can't wait for the pics
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Post by: mojocafa on August 16, 2014, 08:10:06 pm: :excited:

Superb
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Post by: Rosemary on August 16, 2014, 08:10:52 pm: Well done :thumbsup:
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Post by: mowhaugh on August 16, 2014, 08:23:54 pm: Congratulations, can't wait to see your pics!
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Post by: jaykay on August 16, 2014, 08:56:47 pm: It was great to meet you, and Ollie today.
Much as I'll miss the sheep, it's good to know they've gone to a good home and will be appreciated :)
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Post by: Andrew on August 16, 2014, 09:48:08 pm: well done, look forward to pics. The Shetland sale is on at Lanark at the end of this month, always a good selection of tups there.
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Post by: Womble on August 16, 2014, 11:32:35 pm: I'm glad you made it down and back safely, despite the shaky start this morning with the key breaking off in the trailer hitch lock (very sorry about that!! :-[ ).

I've got a note in my diary that there's a rare breeds auction in Stirling on 20th September - just think of it as the Tup-Shop sale ;D , and let me know if you'd like company!
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Post by: Fleecewife on August 16, 2014, 11:43:21 pm: Quote from: Womble on August 16, 2014, 11:32:35 pm
I'm glad you made it down and back safely, despite the shaky start this morning with the key breaking off in the trailer hitch lock (very sorry about that!! :-[ ).

I've got a note in my diary that there's a rare breeds auction in Stirling on 20th September - just think of it as the Tup-Shop sale ;D , and let me know if you'd like company!

Lanark's better as that's the official Shetland breed society sale for Scotland. Some excellent stock appears there, and I'm sure jaykay's sheep deserve the best tup you can afford.

Lovely to hear you've got your sheep Bloomer, and great to see where some of jaykay's flock have gone.
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Post by: SallyintNorth on August 16, 2014, 11:45:19 pm: Lanark Rare Breeds Sale (http://www.lawrieandsymington.com/lanark/sale-dates/friday-rare-and-minority-breeds-sale)Friday 29th August. Even if you don't buy, go, watch and learn ;) There's usually a heap of TASers there ;)

And if you don't buy at Lanark (or one of the other Scottish sales), Carlisle Rare Breeds Sale is on Saturday 20th September.
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Post by: Mammyshaz on August 17, 2014, 08:59:24 am: Great news, congratulations Bloomer family :excited: :hugsheep:

Many months of fun to come, look forward to seeing some piccies :excited:
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Post by: plumseverywhere on August 17, 2014, 09:04:36 am: Brilliant news! and really good that you've picked up your first flock from such a good home, at least you won't have some of the nasty surprises that awaited us :) look forward to pictures
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Post by: Womble on August 17, 2014, 09:09:48 am: So the Stirling rare breeds sale is on the same day as Carlisle then Sally? That's a shame, as I presume Carlisle is a much bigger affair?

Quote from: Fleecewife on August 16, 2014, 11:43:21 pm
Lanark's better as that's the official Shetland breed society sale for Scotland. Some excellent stock appears there, and I'm sure jaykay's sheep deserve the best tup you can afford.

Absolutely - I know Lanark is bigger and better. I just wanted to point out that it's happening, and is also more local to both bloomer and I. In Bloomer's case, yes, he definitely needs to find a good unrelated tup, and the advice from other TASers at Lanark will be important in that. In my case, I just need to find a young chap who will be "coming and going" ;) , so I don't need to be quite so choosy.
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Post by: bloomer on August 17, 2014, 09:21:18 am: I have lanark in my diary and a profile coming for 2 boys from up north who may suit my needs TAS to the rescue again :-)
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Post by: Bramblecot on August 17, 2014, 11:22:18 am: Congratulations :thumbsup: . You won't regret getting some lovely Shetlands :hugsheep: :hugsheep: as your first sheep.
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Post by: mowhaugh on August 17, 2014, 11:43:16 am: It drives me up the wall that Stirling and Carlisle are on the same day. It takes me the same time to get to either, pretty much to the minute. I am hoping to get to the Lanark sale too for education purposes, so far my knowledge of shetlands extends to the fact I think they look sweet.

Sorry, am whittering, trying to fill the time waiting for my shetlands!
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Post by: Fleecewife on August 17, 2014, 12:16:28 pm: Quote from: mowhaugh on August 17, 2014, 11:43:16 am
It drives me up the wall that Stirling and Carlisle are on the same day. It takes me the same time to get to either, pretty much to the minute. I am hoping to get to the Lanark sale too for education purposes, so far my knowledge of shetlands extends to the fact I think they look sweet.

Sorry, am whittering, trying to fill the time waiting for my shetlands!

We struggled to tell a Shetland from anything else the first year. Then we went up to the Shetland Isles and they were EVERYWHERE :roflanim:
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Post by: SallyintNorth on August 17, 2014, 01:20:35 pm: So, I bought a black 1-crop ewe and her black gimmer lamb (I need more black fleece in my flock, and these are *really*, proper, full-on black :)), and a tup lamb whose colour, jaykay tells me, is called 'musket katmoget' although to the untutored eye (mine) he looks like a grey katmoget.

I love them already :) But pics are a problem - I have them indoors while they settle and learn to love me. Black sheep are hard to photograph at the best of times, and Chad (the tup lamb) is perfectly camouflaged for the peeling once-whitewashed hemel walls!

(mowhaugh, you have Chad's mum, the moorit katmoget who looks like she's smiling.)
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Post by: mowhaugh on August 17, 2014, 01:23:05 pm: They are lovely!

Ours have now arrived, but I have had to force my very excited children indoors to allow the poor wee things a bit of time to settle in. Hope to have photos later, we are all completely smitten.
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Post by: Bramblecot on August 17, 2014, 03:30:06 pm: 'we are all completely smitten.'

Just wait until you have lambs ;D :excited: :excited: !
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Post by: Bionic on August 17, 2014, 03:53:11 pm: Sally, I love the camouflage ;D love their colours too :thumbsup:
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Post by: Treud na Mara on August 17, 2014, 05:57:39 pm: Can't wait to see the pictures of another happy ending/new beginning for those lucky sheep. :)
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Post by: bloomer on August 17, 2014, 06:04:33 pm: My pictures will go up tuesday, we are havinging internet installed in new house then :-) its just not possible to post them to here from my blackberry!!!
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Post by: Pundyburn Lynn on August 18, 2014, 02:29:53 pm: Can't wait to see them bloomer!
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Post by: Dan on August 19, 2014, 10:11:22 am: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep:
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Post by: bloomer on August 19, 2014, 03:21:09 pm: (https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1tvc7HUZNM0/U_Nb2ymGRnI/AAAAAAAAAFs/khHDGGVVFY4/w830-h553-no/sheep%2B1.jpg)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-EJx88uFF9KM/U_Nb4VH4RWI/AAAAAAAAAF4/zZZff4G4C_k/w830-h553-no/sheep3.jpg)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-EJx88uFF9KM/U_Nb4VH4RWI/AAAAAAAAAF4/zZZff4G4C_k/w830-h553-no/sheep3.jpg)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-8QdK5PwFLUw/U_Nb8j52D9I/AAAAAAAAAGg/Wj8Mnhi0Q-8/w830-h553-no/calvin%2B2.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-mjNjcXXAk-Q/U_Nb9vOFadI/AAAAAAAAAGs/SDpKnGWsKeA/w830-h553-no/sheep%2B6.jpg)
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Post by: bloomer on August 19, 2014, 03:22:59 pm: sorry if the images are a bit big, just some pictures of my new found friends happy in the field..
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Post by: kanisha on August 19, 2014, 04:07:27 pm: Fab :thumbsup:
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Post by: Brucklay on August 19, 2014, 04:11:16 pm: Nice looking bunch Bloomer :thumbsup:
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Post by: Bionic on August 19, 2014, 05:25:43 pm: Very nice :thumbsup: :sheep:
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Post by: SallyintNorth on August 19, 2014, 06:43:01 pm: Brilliant ;D :thumbsup: :hugsheep:

What do the kids think?
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Post by: bloomer on August 19, 2014, 06:52:37 pm: kids very pleased/excited although need training as they can't cope with not having all of them immediately eating out of their hands!!!
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Post by: Mammyshaz on August 19, 2014, 08:29:53 pm: A lovely little flock :hugsheep:
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Post by: sokel on August 20, 2014, 12:35:35 am: Very nice I do like Shetlands. Was very tempted myself after seeing a flock quite local to me for sale