Author Topic: Hi there :-)  (Read 6957 times)

Brucklay

  • Joined Apr 2010
  • Perthshire
    • Brucklay Pygmy Goats
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Re: Hi there :-)
« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2012, 07:14:21 am »
Welcome to the forum Polished Arrow - as BB's other half and the duck person - we don't get that many eggs as not all of them lay in there boxes - if I take too many away they get craft and start a nest where I can't find it and for some reason ours seem to love sitting and having ducklings so we take some at the beginning of laying and then when they have a nest I let them sit. In the past if I've taken them away they've gone off further way to sit where I struggle to find them - suddenly only the male will return at bedtime and I have to go out hunting the verge/field edge for the duck!! The eggs are on the small size but very tasty, lots of yoke and a smaller amount of white. I sell about 30 ducklings a year and sell them at about 12 weeks of age when they are old enough to tell boys from girls.
Pygmy Goats, Shetland Sheep, Zip & Indie the Border Collies, BeeBee the cat and a wreak of a building to renovate!!

tizaala

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • Dolau, Llandrindod Wells,Powys
Re: Hi there :-)
« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2012, 08:47:19 am »
Another hello from Powys, We have a Toggenburg  Billy at stud if you need his services next Autumn just PM us when you need to.
Welcome to the mad house.

Polished Arrow

  • Joined Mar 2012
  • Forest of Dean
  • www.cinderhilllfarm.com
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Re: Hi there :-)
« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2012, 03:28:59 pm »
Hi Tizaala,

Yes, we will indeedy be in touch as we haven't actually looked for/found someone with a billy to borrow as yet :-)  Have you some photos of him, does he have a name, and is he a well experienced gigolo goat, able to take good care of our little ladies?  It'd be their first experience of this kind  :D

Here's a picture of our three: 



They are shamelessly vein I am afraid, but full of fun too.  Here's Cocoa illustrating her skills at picking her nose with her own tongue  :o



Good to 'meet' you, too Bruckley the Egg Hunter   :D
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