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Horse & Farm

  • Joined Dec 2011
    • North Cumbria
Hello from Cumbria
« on: December 17, 2011, 04:34:49 am »
Hello everyone

After many years working in dairy farming, we now have are own 18 acre smallholding here in a very white Cumbria.

 :cow: :pig: :chook: :horse:
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Rich/Jan

  • Joined Aug 2011
Re: Hello from Cumbria
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2011, 08:32:32 am »
Hi - what are you farming now?
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Dan

  • The Accidental Smallholder
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  • Joined Oct 2007
    • Carnoustie, Angus
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Re: Hello from Cumbria
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2011, 09:15:07 am »
Hello from a cold but (so far) snow-free Carnoustie.  :wave:

Are you up at 4.30am as a habit after all those years of early morning milking?!
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Hello from Cumbria
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2011, 01:41:43 pm »
Hi there horseandfarm  :wave:  from just a bit north and east of you - but still in Cumbria (just.)

We're commercial but very low input beef and sheep farmers; I describe myself as smallholding on the side.  The commercial sheep are Texel and Charollais types; the sucklers are Angus and Hereford crosses, Blue-Greys and a few British Blue crosses.  We have Dales & Fell ponies, a Jersey house cow (hand-milked, we eat hand-made butter and cheesecake as well as drinking the best milk you can get; she rears a few calves too), an OSB sow and currently three Saddleback X weaners fattening, a motley assortment of freeloading choox who hide their eggs in the hay stacks as well as three working collies and a hound pup.

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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

Horse & Farm

  • Joined Dec 2011
    • North Cumbria
Re: Hello from Cumbria
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2011, 04:15:33 pm »
Getting up early is still a habit i cant break, im still a head herdsman on local farm to us working 60hrs plus a week and fitting in setting up our smallholding. so far we have 1 boar, 1 sow and 3 weaners. sheep are arriving next year when the fencing is completed, hopefully over the christmas break. Have just completed fitting out 12 stables so we have an income from livery and we allready have 4 horses on site till spring. next project is setting up area for chickens.
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lill

  • Joined May 2011
Re: Hello from Cumbria
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2011, 05:16:45 pm »
hi and welcome to the forum  :wave: :wave:
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jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
    • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Hello from Cumbria
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2011, 05:21:14 pm »
Hi  :wave: also in Cumbria, on the N Yorks border in Mallerstang. Whereabouts are you?
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Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
    • Telford
Re: Hello from Cumbria
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2011, 05:35:07 pm »
 :wave: Hi and welcome from wet and windy Shropshire which was white this morning.  So 60+ hours as head herdsman and setting up your own smallholding.  What do you do in your spare time?  ;)
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Horse & Farm

  • Joined Dec 2011
    • North Cumbria
Re: Hello from Cumbria
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2011, 05:55:50 pm »
Quote from: jaykay on December 17, 2011, 05:21:14 pm
Hi  :wave: also in Cumbria, on the N Yorks border in Mallerstang. Whereabouts are you?
Quote from: Mad Goatwoman of Madeley on December 17, 2011, 05:35:07 pm
:wave: Hi and welcome from wet and windy Shropshire which was white this morning.  So 60+ hours as head herdsman and setting up your own smallholding.  What do you do in your spare time?  ;)

Hi Both thanks to everyone saying hello
I think my body works on a 48hr day to fit everything in, we are near Penrith
hopefully next year i will be able to slow down on dairy work and enjoy my own smallholding
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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
    • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Hello from Cumbria
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2011, 06:35:18 pm »
Will you be having cows? :)
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Horse & Farm

  • Joined Dec 2011
    • North Cumbria
Re: Hello from Cumbria
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2011, 07:43:38 pm »
I have been looking at getting some beef calves in the new year i have been offered limosin/Belgian blue calves from Holsteins on dairy farm. but we cant agree a price yet.

I have brought one calf home who was born blind in one eye and has knuckled over hoofs, he is doing fine so far and gets more attention than he would on the farm
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tazbabe

  • Joined Aug 2010
    • ayrshire
Re: Hello from Cumbria
« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2011, 07:23:12 am »
   the saying 'if you want something done ask a busy man' comes to mind!
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The Mobile Butcher

  • Joined Jan 2010
    • Whitby North Yorkshire
Re: Hello from Cumbria
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2011, 02:18:28 pm »
hi - from whitby, North Yorkshire :wave:
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