I come from a subsistence hunting background, although my parents lived in a small town they eked out their/our living not only by working but by keeping an allotment with chickens, veg for the table, swop and sale and flowers to sell and show, ferrets kept our yorkshire puddings swimming in rabbit gravy, and sometimes a cade lamb came our way to be reared lovingly, mysteriously disappearing when it started to get a bit too big to be managed in the kitchen. Currently we have an "equestrian property" which we have decided to sell because although we live 3 miles from a shop and 1 mile from the nearest road, the equestrian neighbours do not like our chickens, our ferrets, our terriers, and regard the idea that we might get some sheep with utter horror.
Our property consists of a lovely old farm managers cottage, a shippon (we've removed most of the partitions and now call it a barn), a block of three stables and 3 acres of old turf. Originally we bought it to further my interests in connemara ponies, but as it happens, 7 years on, we have realised that we are actually not "equestrian property" people. The neighbours call us "allotment people", but I think that means we are smallholders! So we're looking for a more suitable property, where we can have some cades, or even our own ewes, a pig or two (maybe middlewhites, but my son likes kunekunes), and a bigger flock of poultry which would provide eggs to sell, at the moment our tiny flock of 10 only just serves us and lets us give a few away. The property would be ideal were it not for the two barn conversions that flank us and the original farmhouse at the back of us (now owned by people with no interest in the land at all).
Thats me anyhow, an ex connemara pony breeder, newbie border terrier breeder, aspiring pig, sheep and possibly polytunnel owner!
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