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weewooliewifie

  • Joined Apr 2013
Hello there!
« on: April 06, 2013, 02:18:51 pm »
Stumbled across your site!  Hope you have room for a wee one!

So, I've managed to "acquire" 14 ewes due to lamb any day soon.  I do have previous experience with sheep having worked on several sheep farms about 100 years ago.

I'm having a panic that that I've forgotten EVERYTHING!!

« Last Edit: April 06, 2013, 02:23:04 pm by weewooliewifie »

spandit

  • Joined Mar 2013
  • East Sussex
    • Sussex Forest Garden
Re: Hello there!
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2013, 03:22:09 pm »
Plenty of room, welcome!
sussexforestgarden.blogspot.co.uk

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Hello there!
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2013, 03:23:51 pm »
Always room for another sheepkeeper!

Tell us about your 14...
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

weewooliewifie

  • Joined Apr 2013
Re: Hello there!
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2013, 03:59:55 pm »
Thank you for the warm welcome!

I live on a 250 acre farm, we used to have a dairy herd but had to come out of milk 5 years ago.  So now we have a beef herd, and my Father in Law (in his wisdom) decided to buy 14 sheep as grass cutters!

They are a mix of suffolk/cheviot/unknown crosses.  12 ewes and 2 gimmers, apparently in lamb to a texel...  They came of a croft somewhere in the hills and are surprisingly tame.

Hoping it all comes flooding back to me when the first wee lamb appears!

Sudanpan

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • West Cornwall
    • Movement is Life
Re: Hello there!
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2013, 04:15:40 pm »
I'm sure keeping sheep is like riding a bike - you never forget!  :excited:


Good luck and keep us posted  :thumbsup:

The Mobile Butcher

  • Joined Jan 2010
  • Whitby North Yorkshire
Re: Hello there!
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2013, 12:59:47 pm »
Hi From Whitby- North Yorkshire :wave:
Paul - The Mobile Butcher

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Hello there!
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2013, 03:24:26 pm »
 :wave: and welcome from sunny Shropshire.  All welcome here.

 

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