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Shnoowie

  • Joined Mar 2010
    • Cornwall
    • Binty's Farm
Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2013, 01:32:20 pm »
Places farm maggots for the medical profession...
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happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2013, 01:44:11 pm »
...and of course Snails to eat.....that takes  up very little room on any small holding. People seem to be going for more exotic things than ever, what about Emu ?
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SteveHants

  • Joined Aug 2011
Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2013, 02:39:15 pm »
Quote from: Shnoowie on April 23, 2013, 01:32:20 pm
Places farm maggots for the medical profession...


I had a mate who worked on a maggot farm (for fishing bait mostly). I believe a supply of chicken carcases is handy.
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plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
    • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
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Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #18 on: April 23, 2013, 02:44:16 pm »
They keep Emus a few miles from here. They escaped and legged it up the high street one day - all the shoppers were in chaos  ;D
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happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #19 on: April 23, 2013, 03:24:57 pm »
[quoteThey keep Emus a few miles from here. They escaped and legged it up the high street one day - all the shoppers were in chaos  ;D]  :roflanim:  Is  Rod Hull around still?  There are Llamas or Alpacas near here, love those......I so want to cuddle one!!
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
    • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #20 on: April 23, 2013, 03:30:16 pm »
I would still go for dragons.  Once you've worked out how to breed them they would sell for a fortune.  And in their spare time they could use that hot breath to dry up the swampy bits  8) 8) 8)
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plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
    • Worcestershire
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Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #21 on: April 23, 2013, 04:23:25 pm »
Quote from: happygolucky on April 23, 2013, 03:24:57 pm
[quoteThey keep Emus a few miles from here. They escaped and legged it up the high street one day - all the shoppers were in chaos  ;D]  :roflanim:  Is  Rod Hull around still?  There are Llamas or Alpacas near here, love those......I so want to cuddle one!!
Don't they fling green spit though? I might have dreamt that mind you.
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #22 on: April 23, 2013, 05:42:32 pm »
Oh aye - 'spit' from the depths of their alimentary tract. :o  Alpacas do, anyhoo.
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plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
    • Worcestershire
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Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #23 on: April 23, 2013, 05:57:00 pm »
I went out with a man who could do that...once.
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
    • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #24 on: April 23, 2013, 06:03:00 pm »
Quote from: plumseverywhere on April 23, 2013, 05:57:00 pm
I went out with a man who could do that...once.

 :roflanim:
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
    • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
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Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #25 on: April 23, 2013, 06:05:36 pm »
Quote from: plumseverywhere on April 23, 2013, 05:57:00 pm
I went out with a man who could do that...once.
He could do it one time only?

You went out with him some time ago?  (Once upon a time... ;))

You went out with him one time only?

Or maybe all three!  :D
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Backinwellies

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    • Llandeilo Carmarthenshire
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Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #26 on: April 23, 2013, 06:06:32 pm »
Like the dragon idea .... easy fire lighting, no petrol needed to go shopping(and no traffic probs either) , burn off rushes, charge forture for rides ....  anyone got one spare  :eyelashes:
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Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
    • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #27 on: April 23, 2013, 06:08:01 pm »
Its St Georges day today so he may have one going spare when the day is over  ;D
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JMB

  • Joined Apr 2011
Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #28 on: April 23, 2013, 06:09:42 pm »
I'd like a giant tortoise. Easy to round up.
Plus we've had a terrible few weeks - 2 hens died, 2 sheep and 1 lamb - I am cried out. But tortoises live forever don't they!???
And if you ever saw QI about Darwin's failed mission to bring back a giant tortoise - the sailors ate them all! Too delicious to resist!
J xxxx
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Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
    • Telford
Re: most unusual smallholding animal?
« Reply #29 on: April 23, 2013, 09:57:47 pm »
Not sure an alligator would be the best thing to have around livestock.  Not if you wanted to keep the other animals as well.  How about an Aardvark?  Or a Dodo?
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