Author Topic: hello everyone  (Read 6943 times)

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: hello everyone
« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2014, 12:14:06 am »
Welcome  :wave: and good luck with your ventures.  Lots of friendly people on here, there'll be plenty with relevant experience to help you along the way :)

Goats is one of the things I've never had nor worked with - but I can certainly see the appeal.  We're farmers here, beef and sheep, so it's easy for me to keep house Jersey cows alongside the beef herd.  They give us milk for the house, for lambs and anything else that needs it, rear their own and a few bought-in calves each year - productive, beautiful creatures.  Loads of personality too - we love to have them around.  If we ever downsize I might have to turn to goats then!
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Hamish Crofter

  • Joined Jun 2013
  • Isle of Skye
Re: hello everyone
« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2014, 06:36:28 am »
Hi,
Good luck. We did similar and moved to Skye. Wonderful.......

GuardianCroft

  • Joined Jan 2014
    • Offgrid-Online
    • Facebook
Re: hello everyone
« Reply #17 on: January 15, 2014, 09:10:12 am »
Kelly58

Yep, you trump me there in the furthest North stakes!   :D


bigchicken

  • Joined Nov 2008
  • Fife Scotland
Re: hello everyone
« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2014, 09:19:06 am »
Welcome from the bigchicken, I have fond memories of Mull lovely part of the country, the very best of luck on your adventure.
Shetland sheep, Castlemilk Moorits sheep, Hebridean sheep, Scots Grey Bantams, Scots Dumpy Bantams. Shetland Ducks.

darkbrowneggs

  • Joined Aug 2010
    • The World is My Lobster
Re: hello everyone
« Reply #19 on: January 15, 2014, 09:23:34 am »
Hi and welcome from Sue - previously in Worcestershire but heading for Ayr, then hopefully Orkney and Shetlands, though not to stay permanently.


I know nothing about goats and when a friend asked me if her pygmy goat was in kid I cofidently predicted it would be a while even if she was, and she had twins that very night.  Good luck with it all anyway  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:


You will have great fun.
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CAS12

  • Joined Jan 2014
Re: hello everyone
« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2014, 04:19:17 pm »
Hello and welcome, Good luck with your venture. Mull is a lovely island, I worked there for a summer season a few years ago.

 

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