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Post by lessnessock on May 1, 2011 9:37:42 GMT
Hi I have taken stockslave's advice and joined off topic. I am a regular poster on BFF. My name is Caroline and I am into White and Belted Galloway cattle and Lleyn sheep. I live on a dairy farm with hubby Adam who is a dairy farmer and my two kids. We live in Ayrshire in South West Scotland and I work as an agricultural consultant. I love everything agricultural but am most interested in native breeds and performance of livestock from forage based systems.  |
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Post by stockslave on May 1, 2011 10:08:23 GMT
Hi Lessnessock, you've come to the right place then....says she with native Sussex Cattle that get nothing but forage and a mineral lick  Having said that, that's all the sheep get as well  You'll find that a lot of the names on here will be the same as on BFF, enjoy yourself  |
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2011 11:23:17 GMT
Hi Lessnessock, I'm a retired crofter, now down in Staffordshire on family arable farm - just a little bit different life to the last 30+  years Relax here and enjoy You'll know some of the regular BFF'ers on here, others try and hide their identity  |
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Post by genuinerisk on May 1, 2011 14:01:22 GMT
Hi Lessnessock - welcome aboard - think you'll enjoy it here and it will be great to have another viewpoint.
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Post by lessnessock on May 1, 2011 15:25:25 GMT
Thanks everyone for your kind replies
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2011 16:43:56 GMT
Just took a look at your website, lovely cattle, there's a classifieds on here if you wish to use it |
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Post by lessnessock on May 1, 2011 18:49:01 GMT
Thanks Joyce I need to keep my website more up to date. I will put together something for the classifieds as I need to reduce numbers to help fund a new shed this summer.
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Post by grawley on May 2, 2011 7:12:44 GMT
Hi lessnessocks, welcome, sure you'll enjoy the friendship on here. I keep Hampshire Downs & am a strong supporter of the native breeds.
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Post by oxenboy on May 2, 2011 19:49:14 GMT
Hi Lessnessck Welcome, all you need on here is a good sense of humour and patience for old INS who are a bit slow with computers,that me introduced |
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Post by rgsp on May 2, 2011 21:03:15 GMT
There's only about 3 miles of ground between me an Texel (plus about 90 miles of sea). Can I count my Texel sheep as a local breed?
One of this year's lambs went swimming in the moat today: Otter-like she was, swimming like mad and throwing up quite an impressive bow wave. Welcome anyway.
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Post by lessnessock on May 2, 2011 21:12:45 GMT
There's only about 3 miles of ground between me an Texel (plus about 90 miles of sea). Can I count my Texel sheep as a local breed? One of this year's lambs went swimming in the moat today: Otter-like she was, swimming like mad and throwing up quite an impressive bow wave. Welcome anyway. Hope your lamb survived it's little swim! |
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Post by rgsp on May 3, 2011 20:04:40 GMT
There's only about 3 miles of ground between me an Texel (plus about 90 miles of sea). Can I count my Texel sheep as a local breed? One of this year's lambs went swimming in the moat today: Otter-like she was, swimming like mad and throwing up quite an impressive bow wave. Welcome anyway. Hope your lamb survived it's little swim! Not only survived, but looked more like a powder puff than a lamb after she had an hour or so in bright sunshine to dry off. This is the lamb that was my first experience of a projectile birth (which I initially thought was afterbirth) and who had a birth weight of just under 1.5 kg, and took over 2 weeks to be able to suck from a teat instead of being stomach tubed. |
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Post by lessnessock on May 4, 2011 21:39:07 GMT
Sounds like you are very patient rgsp! I have a triplet pet that took 5 days to suck a bottle after its mum took mastitis. I was nearly round the bend. Poor thing just needed a mum as it would happily suck any ewe. Hopefully your lamb won't make a habit of swimming in the moat.
Not sure of Texels as a native breed but many of my Lleyns look like they have had an encounter with a texel tup!
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Post by rgsp on May 7, 2011 10:13:22 GMT
Sounds like you are very patient rgsp! I have a triplet pet that took 5 days to suck a bottle after its mum took mastitis. I was nearly round the bend. Poor thing just needed a mum as it would happily suck any ewe. Hopefully your lamb won't make a habit of swimming in the moat. Not sure of Texels as a native breed but many of my Lleyns look like they have had an encounter with a texel tup! I don't think there's many decent Lleyns about these days that don't have bit of Texel in them. Anyway, Wales is a lot further and a lot more foreign to me than Holland, and as long as you know a bit of Norfolk dialect, Dutch is understandable if spoken slowly and with the accompaniment of a couple of pints. Doesn't work with Welsh. |
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