Author Topic: Whats on your smallholding wish list???  (Read 13288 times)

Shropshirelass

  • Joined Jul 2012
  • South Shropshire
  • A country lass who loves it all!
Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« on: June 14, 2014, 09:27:56 am »
So come on what would be on your smallholding wish lists that you'd like to purchase or be treated to in the next year. I've put mine below some of which might take a very long time to get but the 1s at the top are realistic:

small 4x4 (or at least a towbar & trailer set up on my car - the 4x4 wouldn't be used that often & more just for farm work so it shouldn't be too expensive to run)

Cider press

More poultry in small numbers

More poultry runs

Another dog - (This time a terrier type)

New waterproof trousers - If I don't find the old ones


Couple of horses (when I have the time & money)
Bit of Land with outbuildings attached
Small flock of sheep of my own

Now it's your turn xx

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2014, 09:40:49 am »
no.1 a smallholding  :excited:


failing that my realistic list is,


my first sheep on rented grazing,


my first bee's


finally setting up a pure breed pen of chickens inc cockerel so i can breed my own...


my first proper veg patch...

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2014, 09:59:38 am »
Some more land
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

waterbuffalofarmer

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • Mid Wales
  • Owner of 61 Mediterranean water buffaloes
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2014, 10:03:04 am »
No.1 import some more buffalo heifers, in calf, for mozzarella production this year.
No.2 Build a bigger garden to grow more veg.
No.3 Finish the wildflower and herb patches, so I can buy in some bees.
No.4 Buy in a good ram from Ruthin or Builth, as I need to get rid of the old one.
No.5 Buy a new tractor, 4x4 and a few other farming pieces of machinery.
Good I think thats my list finished now. :relief:
 :thinking: :thinking: :thinking: :thinking: :thinking:
« Last Edit: June 14, 2014, 11:33:46 am by waterbuffalofarmer »
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shygirl

  • Joined May 2013
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2014, 10:54:40 am »
a tractor, trailer, topper, harrow. failing that a quad version of the same.
finish the fencing, create a cattle race/crush etc.
a landy with a cattle trailer.

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
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Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2014, 11:47:33 am »
A smallholding in the middle of nowhere with a long unmade up road to access it. One where I could keep cats without worrying about them being run over.

I'd like a huge barn, segmented areas within for lambing and kidding.  An indoor milking area.

Apart from that I'm ok with what I have really  ;)
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

suziequeue

  • Joined Feb 2010
  • Llanidloes; Powys
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2014, 12:23:40 pm »
Oooh - in order of priority:

  • Landscaping the back part of the house (we are part-way there)
  • A machine shed
  • A long arm quilting sewing machine
  • Router and router table
  • Fancy kitty dual powered drum carding machine
  • A brute of a quad bike that can tow things behind it
  • Sheep shelters in the top field paddocks
  • Workshop planer/thicknesser
  • Another big chicken house
  • A band saw
« Last Edit: June 14, 2014, 12:25:20 pm by suziequeue »
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Bramblecot

  • Joined Jul 2008
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2014, 12:46:13 pm »
Turn back the clock 25 years so I still had the energy that I had in my 30's :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: .  I can have all the kit in the world but I'm too :tired: :tired: to use it!

GeorgieB82

  • Joined Jun 2011
  • Saron, Llandysul, Carms
    • Wthan Online
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2014, 03:52:07 pm »
I like wish lists :-)

  • A cure for ME
  • A windfall that would allow me to buy the 13 acres and barn opposite that are for sale.
  • More Polled Dorset Ewes
  • Larger Hay Barn
  • Log Splitter
  • Scaffolding to make cage over veg garden
Why not have a look at our smallholding - www.wthanonline.co.uk

Porterlauren

  • Joined Apr 2014
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2014, 05:09:04 pm »
More Land.
More Sheep.
More Time.
More Money.

RUSTYME

  • Joined Oct 2009
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« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2014, 06:05:07 pm »
Not so much a wish list , as next on the list , but here are a few ;
a couple of goats for milk ,
a dozen chickens for eggs ,
some bunnies for meat ,
a couple of pigs for raising weaners for meat and to sell ,
some sheep for meat and wool ,
either a big cob or a shire horse for working the land ,
a new body , the old one is buggered !

mojocafa

  • Joined Sep 2012
  • Angus
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2014, 07:20:09 pm »
A hit man
pygmy goats, gsd, border collie, scots dumpys, cochins, araucanas, shetland ducks and geese,  marrans, and pea fowl in a pear tree.

RUSTYME

  • Joined Oct 2009
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« Reply #12 on: June 14, 2014, 07:38:43 pm »
I've got a longbow !

Steph Hen

  • Joined Jul 2013
  • Angus Scotland.
Re: Whats on your smallholding wish list???
« Reply #13 on: June 14, 2014, 07:43:03 pm »
Want :cow: :pig: :goat:
Already have  :cat: :chook: :dog:
Not allowed  :sheep:  :bunny:

Need to have baby then see what I can cope with looking after. Need field shelters, more proper chicken pens, raised veg beds, many things.

mojocafa

  • Joined Sep 2012
  • Angus
Re: .
« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2014, 07:58:34 pm »
I've got a longbow !

Do you have a good aim?
pygmy goats, gsd, border collie, scots dumpys, cochins, araucanas, shetland ducks and geese,  marrans, and pea fowl in a pear tree.

 

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