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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: Springer222 on February 05, 2010, 04:20:12 pm

Title: Hello
Post by: Springer222 on February 05, 2010, 04:20:12 pm

Hi to everybody, I'm Ian, I'm an ex pig farmer, gave them up in the early 80's, I'm hoping to get a wee bit of land and get back to looking after a few pigs and sheep.

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Post by: HappyHippy on February 05, 2010, 04:32:27 pm

Hello Ian, welcome to the forum  ;D
I'm in South Lanarkshire and a very happy pig keeper  ;)
Whereabouts in the country are you ?
Look forward to hearing more from you
Karen

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Post by: JulieS on February 05, 2010, 04:36:11 pm

Hello Ian and welcome from Devon  :)

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Post by: doganjo on February 05, 2010, 04:56:44 pm

Hello Ian, welcome to the forum, where are you, and why did you give up pig farming, and why do you want to get back into it?  Aren't we a nosey lot?  Hope you enjoy our company!  I don't have big animals only chooks and dooks 'cos I can't kill and eat.  I'm a wimp! ;)

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Post by: little blue on February 05, 2010, 07:16:54 pm

hello and welcome from derbyshire

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Post by: MiriMaran on February 05, 2010, 08:05:34 pm

Hi and also welcome from Derbyshire.

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Post by: Rosemary on February 05, 2010, 09:18:28 pm

Hi and welcome from Alloa

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Post by: Springer222 on February 06, 2010, 12:00:13 pm

I'm from Linlithgow and gave up the pigs due to the way the market was at that time.

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Post by: Hilarysmum on February 06, 2010, 03:51:25 pm

Hi and welcome, were the pigs indoors or outdoors?  Were you planning on going down the traditional route and keeping a few old breeds?

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Post by: Springer222 on February 06, 2010, 03:58:41 pm

The pigs were both indoors and outdoors, we kept around 20 to 25 sows and a boar, all the offspring were reared up to cutter weight

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Post by: Daisys Mum on February 06, 2010, 08:42:31 pm

Hi and welcome from the Borders, great to have more brains to pick, I have no pigs at the moment but hope to get more in the spring. Last 2 went off last Monday. They were Saddleback boars, I had Gilts before them so am keen to see if there is much difference in taste and fat covering, I think these 2 were a bit leaner.

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Post by: ballingall on February 06, 2010, 10:21:20 pm

Hi Ian,

We're just down the road from you near Avonbridge, but my sister is in Linlithgow. She used to keep pigs too, several hundred for her PHD!

Whereabouts are you looking for land?

We have 16 goats here, ducks and chickens, and looking to get a couple of weaners a bit nearer the spring.


Beth

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Post by: sandy on February 08, 2010, 04:32:03 pm

Belated Hello from Clackmannan, no pigs just a few Chickens and Ducks...welcome!!

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Post by: ballingall on February 09, 2010, 12:10:13 am

Got your message, I hope you are successful in trying to find the land. My sister would like a house with some land, but she doesn't want to move the kids from the linlithgow schools, which means she's looking in a very small area, AND she has 4 daughters, so it needs to be a pretty big house too.

Beth

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Post by: Springer222 on February 10, 2010, 07:24:11 am

Hi Beth,
              Its a difficult area to find anything in, I know I've been looking for ages, she'll just have to keep her ears and eyes open.
Ian

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Post by: doganjo on February 10, 2010, 10:38:01 am

The whole of Cetntral Scoltland is difficult to buy land in - it's because we're so close to the silly money in the cities - "Mummy can I have a horse, yes, dear, we'll buy an old cottage with land and go there at the weekends." 

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Post by: Springer222 on February 10, 2010, 04:17:55 pm

You've got that right, I know farmers who's sons are working in factories because of the weekend lairds.