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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
OSB gilt seeks boar for fun times
« on: March 30, 2011, 01:27:48 am »
Well I am not at all convinced I can tell when Meg is in season, so I think I will have to find a boar she can visit.  We're lambing now so time is not on my side.

I am between Carlisle & Hexham. 

Any suggestions? 
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

bigchicken

  • Joined Nov 2008
  • Fife Scotland
Re: OSB gilt seeks boar for fun times
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2011, 09:10:00 am »
Pimping for a pig !  ;D ;D ;D
Shetland sheep, Castlemilk Moorits sheep, Hebridean sheep, Scots Grey Bantams, Scots Dumpy Bantams. Shetland Ducks.

HappyHippy

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Re: OSB gilt seeks boar for fun times
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2011, 09:21:49 am »

Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: OSB gilt seeks boar for fun times
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2011, 09:32:29 am »
Sally
If your gilts not fussy i have a young GOS boar aged 9mths, he's busy for the next couple of weeks with one of my girls but thereafter if you can't find a boar local you could if you want to pop your girl across the pennines give me a call 07979858757 We're near Northallerton.
HTH
Mandy :pig:

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: OSB gilt seeks boar for fun times
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2011, 04:11:21 pm »
Mandy, Karen, thanks very much.  Either would be lovely (as would Thornielee, who you had suggested earlier, Karen) but all are a couple of hours - or more - drive away, which means a most-of-the-day trip out, which ordinarily I would love but was hoping I could avoid while we're lambing.  We'll be lambing until 9th May this year, though we may get a few quietish days later in April before the last batches (the first timers) kick in. 

Anyone got a nice, experienced boy - any breed - available nearer to Carlisle or Hexham?
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

 

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