Author Topic: new to tas  (Read 5179 times)

milarepa

  • Joined Jan 2012
new to tas
« on: January 04, 2012, 07:17:35 am »
hello first please excuse my computer skills     we are now the proud owners of 3acres of land this we have had for 2 years iam a builder by trade but spent 9 years working in the farming industry and fell in love with it but having3 lads all of school age could not depend on a income from it  now they have flown nest it is easier and due to alot more time to spare can do the things that i love to do ie 14 hens 2 goats 4 soay sheep ewe lambs would love to chat with like minded people :wave:

manian

  • Joined Sep 2010
Re: new to tas
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2012, 07:30:31 am »
hi and welcome from derbyshire..... a very windy derbyshire
we have pigs, chickens and turkeys.
lambs come in the spring, although we are contemplating ewes later......
Mx

Miss Piggy

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • Cardigan Bay, Ceredigion
Re: new to tas
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2012, 08:42:41 am »
Hi and welcome from a wet West Wales. We have cows, pigs, poultry, cats and one dog. No sheep at present but had two lambs last year but now in the freezer. Not forgetting the big veggie garden, all that lot keeps us out of mischief.  :wave:

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: new to tas
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2012, 09:24:20 am »
Hello and welcome to TAS, from Carnoustie  :wave:

Where are you based?

Goldcraig

  • Joined Jan 2012
  • North Ayrshire
Re: new to tas
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2012, 09:25:48 am »
Hello form Ayrshire....I have issues, comments, niggling questions and confusion in abundance...I'm new to all this as well...apparently...all will be fine ha ha !!  :wave:
Trust me.....I'm a Chef !!

Horse & Farm

  • Joined Dec 2011
  • North Cumbria
Re: new to tas
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2012, 09:31:12 am »
Hi from a wet and windy cumbria
"A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus"

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
    • Facebook
Re: new to tas
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2012, 10:53:48 am »
Hello from Worcestershire!

3 goats (one in kid) 5 co-op lambs 14 chickens, various fluffy pets and 4 children aged 10 down to 4 (all girls)

Welcome to TAS looking forward to chatting with you more!

Lisa
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: new to tas
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2012, 11:34:04 am »
Lisa,
You forgot to mention that you are now famous, having been on the TV  ;D
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: new to tas
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2012, 11:36:25 am »
Hi
from cold and dreak North Yorkshire, my OH is a builder too and we're into our 8th year of smallholding, busy farrowing our pigs at the mo and making plans for the veg garden which got neglected last year because of my on goingback probs, you'll find TAS a wonderful mine of informations and soem wonderfully helpful people.
Welcome
Mandy  :pig:

chrismahon

  • Joined Dec 2011
  • Gascony, France
Re: new to tas
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2012, 12:27:58 pm »
Hi From Staffordshire. Would love 3 acres but manage to keep ourselves busy on just half an acre. Veggy plot and chickens is all we have -our Texel ewe went to a new home before Christmas and should be a mummy in Spring. More room for the chickens now and no more damage to the runs, coops and fruit trees.

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
    • Facebook
Re: new to tas
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2012, 12:29:44 pm »
Lisa,
You forgot to mention that you are now famous, having been on the TV  ;D
LOL  ;D 
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: new to tas
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2012, 03:25:33 pm »
Hi from a wet and windy cumbria
times two  :wave:

We're commercial beef and sheep farmers, with pigs, choox (freeloaders who hide their eggs in the hay, more like  ::)), ponies and now Castlemilk Moorit sheep on the side. 

Welcome to the forum, you will never be short of advice here!   ;D
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

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: new to tas
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2012, 11:57:15 pm »
 :wave:  Hi from Windy Shropshire.  Lots of people to chat to, rant at and get advice from on here.

tobytoby

  • Joined May 2011
  • north ayrshire
Re: new to tas
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2012, 10:41:23 am »
Hello and welcome from a sunny Ayrshire (first in weeks)

feldar

  • Joined Apr 2011
  • lymington hampshire
Re: new to tas
« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2012, 10:44:31 am »
Hi from The New Forest we are commercial and pedigree sheep farmers with some pigs and chickens :wave:

 

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