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Greenmoor

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Lancashire
Hi, new here :o)
« on: August 17, 2012, 03:01:50 pm »
Hello  :wave:

I'm Gemma and I live on a smallholding in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire with my husband and our three sons who are 8,7 and 5.

We have a herd of 21 Mule sheeps with a lamb each and various chickens - Warrens, Copper Marans & Salmon Faverolles, but our main love are our four pedigree British Lop pigs ~ my avi is our boar, Hugh Grunt.  In the last month we've welcomed our first piglets - a litter of twelve and a litter of eleven piglets  :love:

Looking forward to chatting with you all!

Gemma x


HappyHippy

  • Guest
Re: Hi, new here :o)
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2012, 03:04:24 pm »
Hiya Gemma  :wave:
Welcome to TAS - your Hugh looks a lovely lad  :thumbsup:
I'm up in Scotland and breed Large Blacks and Kunekunes  :innocent:
Look forward to hearing more from you.
Karen x

Greenmoor

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Lancashire
Re: Hi, new here :o)
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2012, 03:10:47 pm »
Hi Karen  :)

We're used to the sheep and hens because my father-in-law always kept them before he sadly passed away in February, but the pigs...well let's say we're on a learning curve  ;D

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Hi, new here :o)
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2012, 03:44:30 pm »
Gemma,
Welcome to the forum from a very soggy wales  :wave:
Sally
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Hi, new here :o)
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2012, 03:58:38 pm »
 :wave:   Hi and welcome from  :gloomy:  Shropshire.

HappyHippy

  • Guest
Re: Hi, new here :o)
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2012, 04:20:51 pm »
but the pigs...well let's say we're on a learning curve  ;D
Yup, they'll keep you on your toes right enough  :D That's the problem with intelligent animals, they're always one step ahead  ::) ;) (and they have more time on their trotters to think about how to cause mayhem  :innocent:)
You'll have to post some photo's of your babies piglets  ;) ;D
Karen x

Greenmoor

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Lancashire
Re: Hi, new here :o)
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2012, 06:31:14 pm »
Yup, they'll keep you on your toes right enough  :D That's the problem with intelligent animals, they're always one step ahead  ::) ;) (and they have more time on their trotters to think about how to cause mayhem  :innocent:)
You'll have to post some photo's of your babies piglets  ;) ;D
Karen x

Oh, go on then ;o)

















Hope you like them  :)
« Last Edit: August 17, 2012, 06:33:53 pm by Greenmoor »

in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: Hi, new here :o)
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2012, 07:05:19 pm »
 :wave:  Hello and welcome from a rainy Powys


         No piggies here, only  :cat:   :chook:   :sheep:   :dog:   :bunny:  budgies quail and stick insects

bangbang

  • Guest
Re: Hi, new here :o)
« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2012, 07:11:21 pm »
Hi  :wave:

Warm welcome from sunny Aberdeenshire  :sunshine: great pics!

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Hi, new here :o)
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2012, 07:56:00 pm »
 :wave: and welcome from :raining: Carnoustie

I :love: the  :pig: :pig: :pig: :pig: and your boar's name  ;D

Mammyshaz

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Durham
Re: Hi, new here :o)
« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2012, 10:34:40 pm »
Hello and welcome from Durham  :wave:

The piglet piccies are adorable  :love:

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Hi, new here :o)
« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2012, 11:42:51 pm »
Great pics  :thumbsup: thanks for posting

OSB sow, Saddleback cross offspring soon to fulfil a different role...  :'(, LB weaners arriving in a couple of weeks to take their place.  To be truthful it's too muddy here for pigs, but we love them, so we keep just a few.

Commercial beef and sheep, Jersey house cow en route to becoming house herd...  :innocent:, rare breed sheep for meat and fleece and the pure enjoyment of looking at them  :)
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

luckylady

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • Yorkshire
Re: Hi, new here :o)
« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2012, 04:31:08 pm »
 :wave: Hi from a humid Yorkshire.  Love the pics - makes me tempted but I know I shouldn't.  Have to stick with the horses, lambs, cats and dog for now.
Doing that swan thing - cool and calm on the surface but paddling like crazy beneath.

 

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