[Rosie posie]

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 

[SallyintNorth]

Welcome from north Cumbria 

[in the hills]

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.

[suziequeue]

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.

[Rosemary]

Hi Rosie Posie and welcome from Carnoustie 

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 

I like baking; Dan likes cooking.

[Bert]

Welcome form the Isle of Mull. Wish I had space for more of our feathered friends

[Rosie posie]

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

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?

[in the hills]

We are between Berriew and Bettws.

Roughly where are you?

[Brijjy]

Hello there Rosie posie. I'm at the foot of the Kerry ridgeway just outside Sarn. Not far from you at all. 

[suziequeue]

We are in Llandinam - about 7 miles south of Newtown.

[in the hills]

Hi Rosie posie

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

[Rosie posie]

ooh quite a posse of neighbours then!  Excellent!

 We are just the other side of Welshpool.

 

[Lesley Silvester]

   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.

[Rosie posie]

hello there!

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

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

[lill]

hi and welcome to the forum from central scotland