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Title: Hello from Sunny France
Post by: woodley on September 25, 2008, 01:09:02 pm
Hi
Newbie here!
I'm Jackie and I live in France, Limousin.
We are sort of living off the land at the moment, whilst we build our house.
Living in an extended mobile home with....

We have 3 turkeys,14 rabbits,104 chickens various ages, 1 pig or should say 1/2 a pig as we brought it with friends.
2 dogs, 2 cats, 1 Appaloosa 2.5yrs, 2 teenagers! 1 Hubby
Think that's enough!

We are thinking of getting a couple of sheep to bring on for the freezer with some friends.
We have just rented some land up the road from us with water and shelters. It was used for sheep before.

Any advice would be greatfully recieved.

Many Thanks

Jackie
Title: Re: Hello from Sunny France
Post by: Rosemary on September 25, 2008, 08:01:08 pm
Hi and welcome. Sounds like a real menagerie - specially the teens and the hubby!
Title: Re: Hello from Sunny France
Post by: pigsatlesrues on September 26, 2008, 03:42:59 pm
Welcome for us in Normandy - sunny and warm as well actually - hope it stays!

You have come to the right place for help and advice here.

Looking forward to reading more about you.

What pigs have you got by the way?

Kate  :pig:
Title: Re: Hello from Sunny France
Post by: Francis Bacon on October 03, 2008, 07:04:25 pm
Hi Jackie,

Sounds like fun  ;D We are in the Indre region (36) on the border of 86 & 87.  We too live in a mobile home while we work on our house & facing another winter in it  ::) Never mind will make it all the sweeter when we finally move in  8)
Take Care
Donna
Title: Re: Hello from Sunny France
Post by: Hilarysmum on October 06, 2008, 02:25:03 pm
Hi welcome from me in wet and warm Brittany
Title: Re: Hello from Sunny France
Post by: carole on October 07, 2008, 10:35:51 am
Bonjour from a very wet and windy Brittany.

Carole
Title: Re: Hello from Sunny France
Post by: Fluffywelshsheep on October 07, 2008, 06:21:38 pm
hiya from fws
Title: Re: Hello from Sunny France
Post by: Tweedle on October 07, 2008, 07:20:11 pm
hello hello hello from the States.  :pig: :chook:
Title: Re: Hello from Sunny France
Post by: witsinfr on October 11, 2008, 11:31:49 am
Hi there everyone.

Fellow 'newbie' here as well, been here in the Vienne since February and slowly building up our menagerie (aka future food supplies  ;D)

We've gotten ourselves so far...

Three dogs (came with us)
Three rabbits
Two turkeys
One goat (not for eating)
Umpteen chickens, constantly increasing with the incubator and the one that went 'broody'
And the latest addition is the six ducks.

Whilst the chicken numbers do vary, we've normally got between 18 and 24 at any time.