[crazy_bull]

Good Evening all,

Just to say Hi!

I am new to the 'owning' a small holding game, but have kept bee's for 19 years running between 50 and 100 hives (depending on the year) so can offer help and advice on most things bee relate. I am however new to the sheep game, having just bought 22 Ewes + Lambs so will no doubt be quizing those of you who are knowlegeable on the wooly buggers. Over time i hope to establish our site to include an orchard area, and get back into rearing pigs, but one step at a time!

C B

[robert waddell]

welcome from central Scotland  you would not happen to have a brother crazy horse

[crazy_bull]

Thank you!

Oh there are many 'Crazies' in this household

[robert waddell]

oh just get the pigs then you will be like the rest of us

[crazy_bull]

At my parents we had 3 acres of woodland that i used to fill with weaners in the spring and then take them out finished late autumn, because the wood got very wet in the winter. Here we only have grass, so am reluctant to sacrifice an area to get ploughed up, but i'm sure they will get fitted in somewhere!!

C B

[Lesley Silvester]

   Hi and welcome to wet Shropshire

[Lesley Silvester]

That was supposed to be from not to   

[Mammyshaz]

Hello, and welcome from Durham 
Wow that's some bees you've had, and we feel proud at our wild little bunch of White bottomed bumbles under the hen store. 

[chickenfeed]

   hi from just up the road in the fens

[Bionic]

Good morning from a wet Wales 
Sally

[Ina]

And good morning from a sunny, but cold Aberdeenshire!

Get your pigs established in the rotation - pigs (for digging and dunging) - veg - grass with sheep for a few years - pigs again... That way you won't have to sacrifice anything! Just an idea. 

[crazy_bull]

Yes good thinking, on the rotation, I will give that some thought.

One thing that i have been mulling over in my head is a livestock trailer, I hate borrowing one of my neighbouring farmer (just don't like asking) is there anywhere localy that hires out small livestock trailers as i can't seem to find one, and the local Ifor Williams chap only hires out big ones. If there isn't such a service in east anglia, would there be a call for such a thing?

C B

[doganjo]

Welcome from Central Scotland - my nephew and his lovely family live near Huntingdon(Hartford)  Will be down that way in September.

[Beewyched]

Hello & welcome from West Scotland 
Re the trailor, Ivor Williams do some fantastic, small trailors suitable for sheep & pigs, that you can also take the top off for hauling bigger stuff - hay, wood etc.  From personal experience it's probably better if you could invest in a new one, about £1,400, that is if you can afford it.  They hold their value well & you could still pay about £1,000 for a decent second hand one.  Try & get one with an internal divider.  I've got the P6e that doesn't have a divider, which I've found can be restrictive to moving my KKs about (different ages/boars etc). 
Happy smallholding 

[Rosemary]

Hello and welcome from cloudy Carnoustie