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squeasy

  • Joined Jan 2012
    • North Yorkshire
Hello
« on: January 28, 2012, 07:12:13 pm »
Hello all,  :wave: I am very new to all of this!!  We have 7 Soay sheep  :sheep:(3 inherited and unregistered ewes) and 4 registered (3 ewes, 1 tup).  We also have 6 hens. :chook:

3 of my Soays are due to lamb early March- I have bought lots of books to help.  But I find this website and forum great, so I hope you can help me along the way.

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Very new to this all.  (very) Smallholder since March 2011 


12 Registered Soay sheep (8 breeding ewes, 2 Rams, 1 wether, 1 retired ewe) 5 Hens, 2 Cats, 1 labrador puppy

Bangbang

  • Guest
Re: Hello
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2012, 08:35:26 pm »
Hello!

Big welcome from sunny Aberdeenshire!  :wave:  :wave:

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Brucklay

  • Joined Apr 2010
    • Perthshire
    • Brucklay Pygmy Goats
    • Facebook
Re: Hello
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2012, 08:59:30 pm »
Hi Squeasy - hope all goes well with your lambing - remember lots of pics please - Soay lambs are just beautiful - where in the world are you X
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Pygmy Goats, Shetland Sheep, Zip & Indie the Border Collies, BeeBee the cat and a wreak of a building to renovate!!

squeasy

  • Joined Jan 2012
    • North Yorkshire
Re: Hello
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2012, 10:21:10 pm »
Hello thank you for the welcomes.  I am in North Yorkshire  :) :wave:
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Beeducked

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: Hello
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2012, 10:26:41 pm »
Hello from another newbie to the forum.
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Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
    • Telford
Re: Hello
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2012, 12:04:57 am »
 :wave:  Hi and welcome from sunny if a tad chilly Shropshire.
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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
    • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Hello
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2012, 10:14:40 am »
Hello and welcome from cloudy Carnoustie  :thumbsup:
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The Mobile Butcher

  • Joined Jan 2010
    • Whitby North Yorkshire
Re: Hello
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2012, 12:53:37 pm »
Hi - From  Whitby, North yorkshire
If you even need any butchering advice or help please drop me a line.
 :wave:
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Paul - The Mobile Butcher

Horse & Farm

  • Joined Dec 2011
    • North Cumbria
Re: Hello
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2012, 01:56:54 pm »
Hello from a cold Cumbria  :wave:
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squeasy

  • Joined Jan 2012
    • North Yorkshire
Re: Hello
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2012, 08:32:47 pm »
Hello Everybody,

Thank you for saying hello - the offer of a local butcher sounds great - only half an hour from Whitby. 

It certainly has been a cold day today, but my OH built a hayrack for the sheep, it will save me stuffing hay into my self-made feed bag with a hole!! 

Three of the Soays are starting to get a little round bump on their sides.  Getting excited about my first ever lambs.

 I didn't get my first real pet (a cat) until I was 24- and I was scared of that. And just over ten years later I have 9 sheep and 6 chickens! 

Just need to find out if I need to heptovac now- better go on the sheep forum.  Thanks for the welcome!
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12 Registered Soay sheep (8 breeding ewes, 2 Rams, 1 wether, 1 retired ewe) 5 Hens, 2 Cats, 1 labrador puppy

Miss Piggy

  • Joined Mar 2011
    • Cardigan Bay, Ceredigion
Re: Hello
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2012, 10:00:59 pm »
Hi and welcome from Wet Cardigan Bay :wave:
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Hello
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2012, 12:32:47 am »
Hi and welcome from a very cold but thankfully dry north Cumbria  :wave:

We have a commercial flock of sheep (texel types, charollais crosses and mules) plus my 4 'geeps' ('goaty sheep') - being Castlemilk Moorits, a bit like oversized Soays!

We also have a commercial suckler herd (angus, british blue and hereford crosses) plus my Jersey house cow.

I've an OSB sow and currently 3 Saddleback cross porkers from her first litter, and we've a couple each of Dales and Fell ponies too. 

Three working collies and a hound pup.  One very very very shy cat who has decided to be our farm cat, for which we are very grateful.

Assorted hens scratting about, hiding their eggs and making a mess  ::)

See you in 'Livestock -> Sheep'! :D
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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

Fowgill Farm

  • Joined Feb 2009
Re: Hello
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2012, 12:19:36 pm »
Hi Squeasy
Welcome i'm another local just the Northallerton side of Stokesley. Piggies and a mad labrador at our and assorted GG's nearby to keep an eye on.
All the best with your lambs
Mandy  :pig:
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Mel

  • Guest
Re: Hello
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2012, 01:44:49 pm »
 :wave: Squeasy,welcome from a wet and overcast Northants!
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squeasy

  • Joined Jan 2012
    • North Yorkshire
Re: Hello
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2012, 09:37:21 pm »
Hello Sally,

Wow you sound like you are very busy!! So much going on! Thank you for my welcome and I look forward to speaking to you in >Sheep.
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Very new to this all.  (very) Smallholder since March 2011 


12 Registered Soay sheep (8 breeding ewes, 2 Rams, 1 wether, 1 retired ewe) 5 Hens, 2 Cats, 1 labrador puppy
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