A quick into,
We bought 24 acre on the Yorkshire Lincolnshire boarder last year. Although we have had horses for as long as I can remember we decided to try for a more sustainable lifestyle.
It begain with a exhausting three months of fencing six acre, by HAND!!, at weekends. We spent months trying to decide what livestock.
Started with Charlie and lola two dorking.
I decided I wanted Northern dairy shorthorn cattle and John told me no chance... everyone I mentioned it to laughed and told me they were britans rarest cattle and wished me all the best. I finally met a lovely couple in Durham who due to someone elses miss fortune had two pure cattle for sale, I snapped them up and also aquired a 4 month old bull calf to breed with them next year.
after reading an article on Mangalitzas we trafvelled to aberdeen and purchaed two gilts and a boar. The gilts have just had babies 13 in total.
Our chicken population has increaseed to 21 plus some in the incubator, some in the brooder and 9 + 2 turkeys just off the heat.
Our next move is to prepare an area for growing veg next year, hopefully the barn will be up soon as we have recieved the ok from planning (how difficult are planning!!!!!!!).
The only problem we are finding now is that work gets in the way.
Kind regards
Tracey and John