Author Topic: Hello from Llangernyw, Conwy (Read 2229 times)

Brandi · « **on:** January 18, 2013, 09:11:06 pm »

I have had the pleasure of benefiting from the forum, so thought it time to start contributing! If I can of course. As part of a revisited childhood we have a few acres with a few shorthorn cattle (whilst growing up on a smallholding we always had a shorthorn cow) and a few stabilisers, 12 badger face sheep and two black & white cobs, which my stone mason husband insists eat a balanced diet of grass and £20 notes!

We're finding it difficult to get our heifers in calf! Not quite as simple as we thought! We've had help from many kind people including the loan of a Badger face ram- for the sheep!

Lesley Silvester · « **Reply #1 on:** January 18, 2013, 10:08:33 pm »

Hi and welcome from Snowy Shropshire. I love the look of the badger face sheep.

Brandi · « **Reply #2 on:** January 18, 2013, 10:37:03 pm »

Thank you for your welcome

Yes, as the badger face sheep walk in a semi circle up over the brow of the hill towards us in the morning they remind us of the old western movies and the depiction of the red indians with their painted faces!

Mammyshaz · « **Reply #3 on:** January 19, 2013, 08:01:23 am »

Hello and welcome from Durham

just a few hens and plots of fruit and veg.

Bert · « **Reply #4 on:** January 19, 2013, 09:06:44 am »

Hi from the Isle of Mull

Bionic · « **Reply #5 on:** January 19, 2013, 09:27:02 am »

Hi and welcome from a snowy Carmarthenshire

Sally

Rosemary · « **Reply #6 on:** January 19, 2013, 10:34:16 am »

Welcome from sunny, snow showery Carnoustie

We have Shetland cattle - tried AI in year one, worked for one but not the other, who had to have "the real thing". This summer, we hired a Shetland bull and both were in calf withing four days of each other and on the first cycle with the bull. Go, Billy Bull

We've bought a bull for next year. Once they've had a calf, I think it's easier because they don't carry as much weight - keeping Shetlands slim down here is a challenge.

deepinthewoods · « **Reply #7 on:** January 19, 2013, 01:32:46 pm »

hello from cornwall

Possum · « **Reply #8 on:** January 19, 2013, 08:10:06 pm »

Hello from a snowy Somerset

Conwy is such a lovely place. How lucky to have a smallholding there!

darkbrowneggs · « **Reply #9 on:** January 19, 2013, 10:09:28 pm »

Hi from cold white Worcestershire

Love to see some piccies of your shorthorns, they were always around on the farms here before the friesians arrived. Are they beef or dairy?

Brandi · « **Reply #10 on:** January 19, 2013, 11:54:16 pm »

Thank you all for your warm welcomes. Can anyone advise how to post ptotos?

tizaala · « **Reply #11 on:** January 21, 2013, 08:42:17 am »

Hi from LLandrindod Wells , When you click on the reply box you will see under it , "Attachments and other options " . Click this an follow the drop down menu , click Brouse , and seach "My Pictures " you might have to re-size to less than 512 kb each . maximum 4 . then simply "post"
Welcome aboard the good ship Madhouse

Brandi · « **Reply #12 on:** January 23, 2013, 10:07:12 am »

Thank you from Llandrindod!

Dark brown eggs - I think the photo of Brocan (Roan) and her new born calf answers the question as to whether she is a beef or dairy type!

the other photo is a 18 month heifer taken last summer (Brocan Bach)