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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: Kinburn 1919 on July 07, 2016, 12:24:21 pm
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just dropping by to say hello, we own a farm at greenloaning near dunblane, have currently 200+ sheep... consisting of Texel,Beltex,Cross,Shetland Cross and Pedigree Shetlands and also suckler herd of about 25 cows , mixtures of breeds, latest new comers to the herd was a Longhorn Heifer with female calf :-)
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Sounds great. Hope you enjoy the forum :wave:
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Hello and welcome from Devon. You've certainly enough to keep you busy!
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Hi Kinburn, Welcome to the forum!
If you want to meet some local smallholders, Central Scotland Smallholders Association are having an informal get together on July 23rd at Braco show (http://www.bracoshow.co.uk/). We're going to meet at the main show entrance at 11am and take it from there, but PM me if you want any more details.
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Hi, well that's my local show :-) I will be there as long as I have finished hay and silage making ..cheers
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Hello and welcome to the TAS forum from :raining: :sunshine: Carnoustie :wave:
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Hi and welcome from Ceredigion! :wave: always great to have new members and all the best with everything it all sounds very exciting! :thumbsup:
WBF
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Hello from the east side of the ochils just outside Kinross we have Poultry and Hebridean sheep
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Hello from the east side of the ochils just outside Kinross we have Poultry and Hebridean sheep
I see you have Ardoch in your sheep address... Ardoch is the name of my Church Parish :-)
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:wave: and welcome from Shropshire.
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Ardoch is very corrupt Gaelic for high field ard being high
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ahhh I see...we also have a Roman Fort at Ardoch
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Welcome and :wave: from the Carse of Gowrie.
We have 4 ducks and 2 dogs and the boss has a horse. I'd like Ryelands and I am Very envious of the Longhorns - my favourites. But the :cow: sadly are much further down the list.
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Hiya
...Ryelands are lovely sheep, I bought a gimmer at Stirling one day a couple of years ago, we nicknamed her Woolly for obvious reasons..lol she had a cracking female lamb which I let run with a tup lamb, but she didn,t take...so she is about the same size as her mother now, and will go back to the tup in November, I fed a herd of Longhorns for 2 winters down at dunblane, when I first started it was scary as the Bulls were very big as were their horns, but after a while they just get used to you, that's how I came to get one myself, but I decided not to put her to the bull this year, but she has 2 heifers and a cow that I chose not to put in calf..to keep her company and she has settled well, and her female calf is thriving on the good grass :-)
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......I fed a herd of Longhorns for 2 winters down at dunblane, when I first started......
I didn't realise there was a herd down there. Who has them and how big is the herd?
I know of some near Perth but I've never seen them.
You a member of the Society?
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There are actually quite a lot more breeders of longhorns than there used to be. There is actually a guy somewhete in England breeding a very big herd for meat, he sells it commercial am sure. When we started farming we kept longhorn cattle, a nice medium herd of them and they were lovely placid creatures. We gave them up though to focus on the buffalo, a decision still regretted to this day, but had to be done. In some ways, we did want to keep both but couldnt manage; it was either one or the other and it was the cows sadly which had, had their day. We got them thtough the ancie t cattle of wales, I think it was. I have a friend who breeds them for meat, it is delish!
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Hi , I was just supplying the silage and hay for them as I had surplus..., for a chap who lived at Braco Castle, they were just down past the service station at Balhaldie on the old shooting range, but he has now sold to a Dealer as the M.O.D wanted the land cleared, there would have been nearly 50 cattle in all, I think he started off with a few and ended up with a lot, not sure if he was a member of the society. He gave me a heifer and calf as a gift for looking after them, as I was involved with the actual feeding of them while he was at his paid job..lovely cattle ..at least I have 2 of my own.. I didn't let the young heifer go with the bull, thought I would give her a year off and get her condition a lot better, I plan to keep her female calf for breeding too but not sure, if I will be keeping the breeding pure..