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Nell

  • Joined Apr 2012
  • Nr Thornhill, Dumfries
Hello from Dumfriesshire
« on: April 18, 2012, 08:45:09 am »
Hey all, I'm a smallholder from near Dumfries - so far have a flock of Texel sheep and 11 hens of various sorts.

in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: Hello from Dumfriesshire
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2012, 08:57:57 am »
 :wave:
Hello and welcome from a soggy Powys

HappyHippy

  • Guest
Re: Hello from Dumfriesshire
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2012, 09:48:09 am »
Hello from me in South Lanarkshire  :wave:

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
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Re: Hello from Dumfriesshire
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2012, 11:52:32 am »
Hello From Worcestershire  :wave:
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Hello from Dumfriesshire
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2012, 01:20:00 pm »
Hello and welcome from trying-to-be-sunny Carnoustie  :wave:

bigchicken

  • Joined Nov 2008
  • Fife Scotland
Re: Hello from Dumfriesshire
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2012, 01:25:25 pm »
Hi and a big welcome fay the bigchicken, good to have a doonhaymer in the ranks
Shetland sheep, Castlemilk Moorits sheep, Hebridean sheep, Scots Grey Bantams, Scots Dumpy Bantams. Shetland Ducks.

Bert

  • Joined Jan 2012
  • Isle of Mull
Re: Hello from Dumfriesshire
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2012, 04:34:07 pm »
Hi from the Isle of Mull  :wave:

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Hello from Dumfriesshire
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2012, 04:37:31 pm »
Welcome from just over the border in north Cumbria  :wave:  Commercial sheep (mainly Texel with a bit of Charollais) and beef (mainly native breeds); rare breed pigs (OSB sow and x Saddleback offspring), sheep (Castlemilk Moorits), ponies (Fells and Dales) and a growing little herd of Jersey house cows. :)
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

Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Durham
Re: Hello from Dumfriesshire
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2012, 10:12:40 pm »
Hello   :wave: from durham.

Nell

  • Joined Apr 2012
  • Nr Thornhill, Dumfries
Re: Hello from Dumfriesshire
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2012, 09:06:53 am »
Thanks for the welcome everyone  ;D


Welcome from just over the border in north Cumbria  :wave:  Commercial sheep (mainly Texel with a bit of Charollais) and beef (mainly native breeds); rare breed pigs (OSB sow and x Saddleback offspring), sheep (Castlemilk Moorits), ponies (Fells and Dales) and a growing little herd of Jersey house cows. :)

Oh lovely! We used to keep Galloway and WSH cattle as well when we were in the beef market but unfortunately we had to let them go when we sold our big farm -OH has always been a commercial farmer, but we decided to downsize to the smallholding. Taking a lot of work as the steading is practically derelict and although the ground is fantastic, it's essentially riverbank silt and very soft, so would get chewed up by heavy hooves. Think OH would love a horse or two, but I think we'd have the same problem with their hooves, and I'm not really a horsey person  :)

Mel

  • Guest
Re: Hello from Dumfriesshire
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2012, 09:57:17 pm »
Hi and welcome from Northants,we wish you well   :wave:

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Hello from Dumfriesshire
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2012, 11:18:50 pm »
 :wave:  Hi and welcome from soggy Shropshire.  Oh for such good soil.  Bet you grow some wonderful weeds!

lill

  • Joined May 2011
Re: Hello from Dumfriesshire
« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2012, 04:27:07 pm »
Hi and welcome to the forum from Bathgate/Falkirk  :wave: :wave:

Goldcraig

  • Joined Jan 2012
  • North Ayrshire
Re: Hello from Dumfriesshire
« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2012, 04:50:21 pm »
Hi from North Ayrshire  :wave:
Trust me.....I'm a Chef !!

mistryer

  • Joined Feb 2009
  • Dordogne, France
Re: Hello from Dumfriesshire
« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2012, 02:43:46 pm »
 Hello from SW France  :wave: Nearly went to live in Dumfries years ago - love that area!!
a smile a day, keeps the doldrums at bay :-)x

 

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