[luminousbrit]

Hi all,

I thought I'd better register as I have been browsing for a while and I have posted a question in the pig area.

I have kept chickens for a few years when I lived in Wolverhampton. We moved to a 3.5 acre smallholding in Shropshire 12 months ago and have doubled our chicken numbers and have a few quail.

Later in the year we are hoping to get our pigs, Large Blacks and possibly Middle Whites.

In the future we may expand our livestock to include Pygmy goats, Shropshire sheep, ducks, geese etc.

We also hope to be more self sufficient with our fruit and vegetables too.

Any other Shropshire smallholders here?

[darkbrowneggs]

Hi there - I'm not in Shropshire but on the Herefordshire/ Worcestershire borders, so not too far from you.  Welcome to the site, I have not joined long ago, but already found it very interesting.

Middlewhites are my favourite pig - Berkshires maybe have a bit more character, and are very nice to look at, but the middlewhite makes beautiful pork, and they are nice and quiet to keep

All the best
Sue

[morri2]

Hello!!! Welcome from the other side of the border in north Wales! Again, not Shropshire, but were just the other side of the Berwyns.  Good luck with everything.

[ballingall]

Hello and welcome from a horrible windy and rainy central Scotland!



Best of luck with your expansions!


Beth

[Rosemary]

Hi and welcome from warm and wet Carnoustie  

[luminousbrit]

Thank you to evertone for the welcomes 

Seems like a friendly bunch here

I do like Berkshires but a friend a couple of miles away is breeding those, if fact she had one who gave birth to 12 piglets on Thursday 

[Hilarysmum]

Hi welcome from Brittany.  GOS pigs are my favourite, but I do have a couple of large black gilts and a one off neutered large black male.  I find the Large Blacks to be slower growing than the GOS.  Will be interesting to hear of your experience.

[cluckingnuts]

Hi from a wet + windy Wales, nothing new there then!

[Nina]

Hi from just over the border in Wales too - Just s/w of Oswestry... 

[Bright Raven]

Hi there from North Shropshire near Whitchurch, and Welcome. 

[little blue]

hello and welcome

[Daisys Mum]

Hello and welcome from the Scottish Borders  I have had Pietrains Saddlebacks and Osb's and they were all lovely to keep, this year I think that I will try GOS.