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mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Fri May 09, 08 4:08 pm Post subject:

Chez wrote:

mochyn wrote:

My pigs stay where we put them, and I haven't been using them for ham before someone asks.

They love living in their woodland during the summer.

But Hayleug (if that's how you spell her) is in love with your Old Chap - she'd never leave

This is very true. I suppose she might try to follow him to work.

(Heulog).

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Fri May 09, 08 5:53 pm Post subject:

Chez wrote:

unless that would squick you out?

Best phrase ever! I'm going to find a way to use it this weekend (ante and postnatal pilates - got to offer some potential, surely!?)

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Fri May 09, 08 5:54 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

Chez wrote:

unless that would squick you out?

Best phrase ever! I'm going to find a way to use it this weekend (ante and postnatal pilates - got to offer some potential, surely!?)

Unlimited in that context, I should think

milkmaid

Joined: 04 Jan 2007
Posts: 551
Location: western isles

Posted: Fri May 09, 08 7:29 pm Post subject:
i'm lucky i have most of what i wanted chickens ,ducks ,turkeys,sheep and goats but i'd love a couple of shetland cows with out all the paperwork that goes with it

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sat May 10, 08 10:53 am Post subject:
How about livestock that stays that way, unless you don't want it to.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42207
Location: North Devon

Posted: Sat May 10, 08 11:02 am Post subject:
You've not lost any more have you?

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11405

Posted: Sat May 10, 08 11:07 am Post subject:
Does sound ominous

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sat May 10, 08 11:11 am Post subject:
And relax... No, no more.

Tradbritfowlco

Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Posts: 526

Posted: Sat May 10, 08 7:50 pm Post subject:
Erm. The ultimate for me was oxen, and I have them now. I don't really see 'wants' as pipedreams, because I just know deep down that if I want it enough, it'll happen come hell or high water At the moment I want another german shep as a playmate for the current one. In a few weeks it should be happening. also, I could never have enough ixworths!

Pel

Joined: 29 Mar 2008
Posts: 2366
Location: Sennybridge

Posted: Sat May 10, 08 9:56 pm Post subject:

This is what i would like in the future... may end up a pipe dream, but i hope not, as i can't marry a farmer, so i'll just have to get may way

Depending on the market:
If its Good for pigs.
100-150 sows commercial types, farrow indoor in a crate for 2 weeks, then are let out into a bigger pen that is half indoors and half out, up until they are 5 weeks (the piglets), then weaned, breeding stock live outdoors, fattening indoors (with access to rooting area). Also have a small herd of about 5 Large blacks same system as above but straw pens for fattening outdoors.

If its bad for pigs:
20-50 pedigree sow/gilts, 1 duroc x hampshire, 1 Pietrain boar and 1 same as the sows and gilts. Offspring are a mixture of breeds, unless selling as pedigrees. Still have a small herd of LB, probably only be 2.
Wouldn't use a crate, and would do most outdoors, and borrow the straw pen idea. As i would be aiming at a different market.

I would set up both systems to be run at high welfare standards for the animals, and be hygenic as possible. That way if organic kicked off big time i would already be kitted out

Have 2 house cows, chickens (meat and egg), veg plot and my own fields to produce some of the feed for the pigs. And if OH got his way we would also have a pedigree herd of Highlands, that would be shown.

Lionheart

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 427
Location: Cheshire

Posted: Sun May 11, 08 7:28 am Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

The Chillingham herd

Ya can come and see mine any time you like (same breed genetically, it's just that the Chillingham herd have been 'emparked' and allowed to in-breed at their leisure!)

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Thu May 22, 08 10:13 am Post subject:
A couple of "house cows"; a couple of pigs to root around in my woods and clear some of the bracken and brambles; a "handful" of sheep. Oh, and to be able to make enough money from the above to "get by" on

Faithmead

Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Posts: 1228
Location: Carmarthenshire/Pembrokeshire border

Posted: Thu May 22, 08 7:55 pm Post subject:
A couple of Alpaca

VSS

Joined: 14 Jan 2007
Posts: 2845
Location: Llyn Peninsula, North Wales

Posted: Sun May 25, 08 3:27 pm Post subject:
I harboured a life dream from 6 years old - sheep farming on an offshore island - and achieved it at the age of 21. Perhaps now I need a new livestock pipedream. I have to say that I sometimes envy those who can afford to keep livestock as a hobby, so I think the current dream is to cut down my sheep flock to only 100 ewes, and just enjoy shepherding them.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Mon May 26, 08 9:24 am Post subject:
Some of mine to were to keep Dexter cattle, (Kerry Hill) sheep & Highland cattle, Call ducks... What next?

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