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Title: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: whizz on April 15, 2010, 06:40:54 am

Hi,

    We have been living in Bulgaria for five years now and are gradually putting together a small herd of goats for milking and meat and after keeping pigs for meat only we recently purchased an extremely spotty pig who we have both fallen madly in love with as she is such a character so we are now looking to breed from her in the future.  To my knowledge there are no Gloucester Old spots in this country and she was in the back of a pick up with her litter mates who were all white but she definitely had the personality of the G.O.S pigs.

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: JulieS on April 15, 2010, 07:46:33 am

Hello and welcome from Devon.   :)

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: Rosemary on April 15, 2010, 07:51:03 am

Hi and welcome from Alloa!

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: sandy on April 15, 2010, 09:51:11 am

 :wave: Hello and welcome to the forum from another Clackmannan person...lot's of us on here!!

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: Annie22 on April 15, 2010, 01:08:04 pm

Hi and welcome from Australia.

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: little blue on April 15, 2010, 02:45:06 pm

hallo and welcome from Derbyshire, England

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: Daisys Mum on April 15, 2010, 03:32:53 pm

Hi welcome from the Scottish Borders :wave:

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: CameronS on April 15, 2010, 06:39:48 pm

welcome from fife  :wave:

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: SuzyJ on April 15, 2010, 10:13:56 pm

Hello and welcome from a fellow ex-pat in Bulgaria

We also keep  :pig: and a few other animals  :wave:

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Post by: mcginty on April 15, 2010, 11:11:05 pm

 :hshoe:. hi from ireland

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: sheila on April 16, 2010, 03:08:52 pm

welcome from Lincolnshire.

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: Hilarysmum on April 16, 2010, 03:20:02 pm

Welcome from Brittany.

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: whizz on April 16, 2010, 03:31:45 pm

Thank you for the warm welcome and what a cosmopolitan lot you are!!  I've already found some great info including somewhere to get GOS semen but how I get it here I've yet to work out.  I had a smallholding in Devon years ago and I just wish you guys had been around then.

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: Hilarysmum on April 17, 2010, 08:20:03 am

Whizz Deerpark will post the semen it should only take 2 days max.  You can pay for a next day delivery I think.  I have a friend who always AI's always successfully.  She started as a complete novice around 4 years ago.

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: whizz on April 18, 2010, 05:23:58 pm

  Thanks, that's the phone number I  have  but maybe I'm having a blond moment but how do they keep it frozen?

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: Hilarysmum on April 18, 2010, 05:54:05 pm

I think its fresh semen from Deerpark unless you are buying 50 plus straws when it gets sent out in a container.  But I am naturally grey, so it may be that I am confused.    :-\ 

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: whizz on April 19, 2010, 06:54:48 am

Wow and the little tiddlers can stay alive that long.  I never was any good at biology. Thanks for the help.

Title: Re: Hi from Bulgaria
Post by: doganjo on April 19, 2010, 11:12:52 am

Quote from: whizz on April 18, 2010, 05:23:58 pm

  Thanks, that's the phone number I  have  but maybe I'm having a blond moment but how do they keep it frozen?

I have sent canine semen to Norway.  It is taken from the dog by the vet at this end, put in test tubes, assessed as to quality in the lab, put into straws, then into a container of dry ice, and couriered to the opposite vet school.  I had nothing to do - not even pay, as my friend in Norway paid everything from there.  We used Britbreed in Dalkeith near Edinburgh.  They used to specialised in sheep at that time - 2003.