The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: Moos and ewes on January 30, 2015, 10:33:11 pm
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Hi all I'm a beef and sheep farmer from Wiltshire, have been keeping sheep for the last 16 years along with a heard of sucklerrs and milk powder calves,
I've popped in a few times and been more of a reader rather than a participator so thought it about time I joined, if you don't mind of corse.
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Glad to have you! :wave:
Whereabouts in Wiltshire are you? I lived in and around Chippenham/Malmesbury for a good few years (just counted - it was nearly 14), leaving in 2000, then came back, to Devizes area, for a while before moving away again in 2005.
So I just want to know whether I'd have seen any of your moos and coos as I was out and about when I was down there!
Back then I was a wannabe smallholder, now I am farming in Cumbria. I didn't expect that! In truth, it's BH's farm - sucklers and commercial sheep - and I smallhold on the side, with fleece sheep :spin:, pigs from time to time, and Jerseys which I milk for the house and on which I rear bought-in calves.
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:wave: from Shropshire.
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Hello to you both, I'm nr to salisbury sally, must be nice to have lived in a few new places, sounds like a good variety you have now too, is always shocking how fast things go by, can't belive I've had my sheep 16 years feels in reality like 4-5 yrs time flys when your having fun hay :)
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You're so right! I was just counting up how many crops my oldest ewe has had - couldn't believe she's had 5 already, hopefully having her 6th in a few months. And my wee collie dug is 7 years old! How did that happen?! :o