[Tamsjute]

Hi all,

although I have been reading things on here for a while, I have now joined properly and can bother you with all my queries!
My family and I have just moved to Scotland from New Forest, England and have bought a farm. Although we have always had animals, ponies, poultry etc, we just rented fields, ever had a farm to manage, so this site is proving useful
At the moment we have here, 4 New Forest ponies, a shetland pony ad an old Irish cob, 6 geese, 8 call ducks, 6 turkeys and a fair few cuckoo and black copper maran chickens- not to mention the cats dogs and ferrets etc.
We are currently getting the land sorted out, I think its been neglected for a long time and has a lot of rushes growing over most of it and the fencing in most parts is terrible. We've had ditches dug and a pond put in the wettest field, which has made a big difference.
Once the fields are ready I hope to get my first small flock of sheep - we have a fair bit of work to do first!

[Bionic]

Hello and welcome to the forum from Carmarthenshire. Previously I lived just out side Ringwood so I guess you could just about say I was New Forest too

[devonlady]

Hello and welcome from Devon

[Rosemary]

And there's the press telling us that folk are leaving Scotland in droves 

Welcome to God's country - which part are you in?

[Talana]

welcome from aberdeenshire

[Lesley Silvester]

  Greetings from Shropshire.  Sounds like you are in for a lot of work and even more fun. 

[lilfeeb]

Welcome to Scotland from Kinross-shire. We love our new forest pony, he is such a character.

[Tamsjute]

Thanks guys and gals,

We're near Shotts in North Lanarkshire.
Yes we have a lot of work ahead of us - and Foresters, best ponies you can get 

[Fleecewife]

  Hi and welcome.  I'm just a bit south of Shotts, and to me it means horrible icy trips to the abattoir on dark winter mornings.  Good luck with dealing with your rushes/rashes/reshes and getting your land in shape.  Quite a culture shock after the New Forest?

[SallyintNorth]

Welcome from me too, another 'ex-pat' to northern climes from 'dahn sahth'

I came up to Northumberland (am now in Cumbria) from Exmoor, so thought I knew about cold weather.  Wrong!!!  8 years on I am more acclimatised now - but only because I have loads of really excellent woolly things - bedding, tights, jumpers, overjumpers, humungous girt gansey work jumpers, double-layer gloves with long-fingered 'fingerless' glove inside all-over mitt outside, etc, etc, - and we've installed a Rayburn to make the house be always warm and dry, and us and our clothes be able to dry and warm quickly when we just came in soaked and will have to go out again later on...

It is better up here, more real.  But the weather...       

[Rupert the bear]

Another welcome from Aberdeenshire one step at a time  and live the dream

[Quirkygirl]

Welcome from the beautiful Wales 

[Kimbo]

Welcome to God's country - which part are you in?

Isnt that what Yorkshire sells itself as??

( Ive no axe to grind...Im a Lancastrian and we hide our light under a bushel  )

[Kimbo]

- and Foresters, best ponies you can get 

Oh dear oh dear oh dear!!! 
Where do I even begin???

[SallyintNorth]

- and Foresters, best ponies you can get 

Oh dear oh dear oh dear!!! 
Where do I even begin???

Well, as a softie southerner moved up to Northumberland from Exmoor, thought I knew cold, I'm just watching and waiting to hear how these lovelies cope up here... .