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Rosie posie

  • Joined Mar 2012
Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« on: March 05, 2012, 10:49:07 pm »
hello,

I live on a small, smallholding, just a couple of acres, in beautiful Mid-Wales.

We keep numerous pure breed chickens- cream legbars, cuckoo marans, light sussex and silver sussex.

turkeys- blackxbronze and bourbon red

geese- embden x buff

We grow veggies and fruit.

I like to bake and to make as much of our food from scratch as possible.

I also like to sew.

My OH likes to make beer, cider and wine.

We have a rat-hungry terrier and 2 rodent-hungry cats.

I think that about sums it up  :wave:
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2012, 11:54:34 pm »
Welcome from north Cumbria  :wave:
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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

in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2012, 08:46:23 am »
Hello and welcome from a cold and sunny Powys.

We also have a small holding of about 2 acres.

We keep quail and lots of chickens- some ex-batts, hybrids, RIR, friesian fowl, different coloured pekins and an araucana. We also have a small flock of Soay sheep and our first lambs are expected soon.

I do grow some veg but always wish I could do more .....one day!!!!

I do lots of home cooking and baking and enjoy various crafts. At the moment I am quite taken with rag rugging.

Hope you enjoy the forum.
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suziequeue

  • Joined Feb 2010
    • Llanidloes; Powys
Re: Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2012, 09:12:04 am »
Welcome from wet Powys Rosie Posie

We are hoping to put some cuckoo maran eggs under one of our speckldeys this summer once one of them goes broody.

My OH also likes to make cider from our apples here. Perhaps they could get together to compare notes.
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Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
    • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2012, 09:37:09 am »
Hi Rosie Posie and welcome from Carnoustie  :wave:

We're lucky enough to have 12 acres - two Shetland heifers and a bullock, some coloured Ryeland sheep, three Hampshire weaners and about 60 laying hens. Plus a couple of ponies, three dogs and three cats.

We're in the middle of planting 140 fruit trees - so Dan will be picking brains about juice and cider in a couple of years  ;D

I like baking; Dan likes cooking.
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Bert

  • Joined Jan 2012
    • Isle of Mull
Re: Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2012, 10:35:07 am »
Welcome form the Isle of Mull. Wish I had space for more of our feathered friends :chook: :wave:
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Rosie posie

  • Joined Mar 2012
Re: Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2012, 12:01:20 pm »
Thank you for the welcome everyone! :)

It is beautifully sunny, but rather chilly out there today, brrrrrr

Those of you in Powys/Shropshire, whereabouts are you? We could be neighbours :D

Cuckoo Marans are fab suziequeue! They are laying lots at the moment, so I'm selling plenty of hatching eggs too!

I currently have 30 something newly hatched chicks pootling around in a couple of dog crates in the next room. A mixture of the 4 breeds of chickens I keep.
Just waiting for the last one to pop out of the shell and I'm going to have a count up!

Is anyone else hatching? or hatched this year?



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in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2012, 12:55:29 pm »
We are between Berriew and Bettws.

Roughly where are you?
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Brijjy

  • Joined Sep 2010
    • Mid Wales
Re: Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2012, 02:16:40 pm »
Hello there Rosie posie. I'm at the foot of the Kerry ridgeway just outside Sarn. Not far from you at all.  :wave:
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Silly Spangled Appenzellers, Dutch bantams, Lavender Araucanas, a turkey called Alistair, Muscovy ducks and Jimmy the Fell pony. No pig left in the freezer, we ate him all!

suziequeue

  • Joined Feb 2010
    • Llanidloes; Powys
Re: Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2012, 03:08:27 pm »
We are in Llandinam - about 7 miles south of Newtown.
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in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2012, 07:24:32 pm »
Hi Rosie posie

Yes, we are quite close ......and Brijjy too !
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Rosie posie

  • Joined Mar 2012
Re: Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2012, 08:09:24 pm »
ooh quite a posse of neighbours then!  Excellent!

 We are just the other side of Welshpool.:)

 
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Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
    • Telford
Re: Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2012, 10:20:50 pm »
 :wave:  Hi and welcome from sunny but chilly Shropshire - Telford to be precise.  I have a large garden and grow fruit and veg and keep my goats in it.
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Rosie posie

  • Joined Mar 2012
Re: Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2012, 10:37:50 pm »
hello there!

Ohh goats! I'm not allowed goats, or sheep, or cattle :(

on the other hand, I am allowed pigs and bees though! :)

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lill

  • Joined May 2011
Re: Hello from Powys/Shrops borders.
« Reply #14 on: March 07, 2012, 01:47:30 pm »
hi and welcome to the forum from central scotland  :wave: :wave:
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