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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: DinkyDill on July 23, 2010, 05:57:29 pm

Title: Hi from Llandysul
Post by: DinkyDill on July 23, 2010, 05:57:29 pm: Hello from the wilds of south Wales :wave:

We've got a small smallholding ( about 3/4 of an acre ) currently filled with chickens, veg and 2 completely mental geese. We're hoping to start breeding rabbits for the table soon.

Wish us luck!
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Post by: little blue on July 23, 2010, 06:24:37 pm: good luck... and welcome!
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Post by: Hilarysmum on July 23, 2010, 06:41:16 pm: Welcome. Would love to hear abuot the mental geese.
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Post by: JulieS on July 23, 2010, 07:01:10 pm: Hello and welcome from Devon :)
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Post by: woodlandproductsfife on July 23, 2010, 07:18:03 pm: hello south wales and welcome along, from the kingdom of Fife
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Post by: piggy on July 23, 2010, 07:58:44 pm: Hi and welcome from Suffolk.
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Post by: Daisys Mum on July 23, 2010, 09:18:46 pm: Hi and welcome from the Scottish Borders. Would like a couple of geese, are they always mental?
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Post by: woodlandproductsfife on July 23, 2010, 09:36:53 pm: they say a gander keeps the foxes away, is that true?

Craig
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Post by: Fergie on July 23, 2010, 09:42:15 pm: Quote from: woodlandproductsfife on July 23, 2010, 09:36:53 pm
they say a gander keeps the foxes away, is that true?

No, my parents used to keep geese in the sixties, and regularly lost them to foxes. It's quite true that a noisy gander will intimidate a fox, and make a lot of noise, but they have no defence if the fox grabs them by the neck.

John
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Post by: woodlandproductsfife on July 23, 2010, 09:55:35 pm: Well John I was kinda wary, Fox is a pretty clever beast, I'm 6ft all round my garden so it would need to be in a pretty bad way to try negotiate that.

Craig
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Post by: carrie on July 23, 2010, 11:20:29 pm: hello, love the geese, will you be having mental rabbits too?
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Post by: Roxy on July 24, 2010, 12:18:23 am: Hello and welcome from me in Derbyshire :wave:
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Post by: Rosemary on July 24, 2010, 07:48:53 am: Hi and welcome from Alloa!
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Post by: DinkyDill on July 24, 2010, 05:12:51 pm: About the geese : There more like naughty little boys! They break into the shed, mess the straw up, cover the floor in straw, newspaper and droppings, steal cardboard boxes and pull over bits of wood then stand in the middle of all the carnage with a look on their faces that says 'What? It was like this when we got here!' For the most part their really sweet little things. Dinky's a brecon about 3 months old and Dylan is a brecon/embden cross and about 6 months.
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Post by: Sandy on August 04, 2010, 09:52:31 pm: :wave: Hi, I read it as Metal geese, guess they would be easier!!! Hi :wave:
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Post by: Sharondp on August 05, 2010, 08:24:10 am: Hello there! Not far from you just across the border in Ross-on-Wye. Sheep and chickens here plus a small poly tunnel :wave: