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I knew who it was immediately so have had a giggle reading this. :iconbiggrin: I also laughed at 'him' being called a 'guy' because I think the fluffy ones are all ewes. Anyway, you couldn't look cute and fluffy like that and be male. :lol: Woah! is it only the females that get fluffy and have to b...

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I stick to the rules - but sometimes it seems hard not to give kitchen waste to the pigs but you have to realise just how manky some pig swill is. its not just chucking some leftover cabbage leaves at them - its that half eaten salami sarnie or the food aunty Mabel brought back from her holidays fro...

tree fruit is a disaster for us this year - some of my apple trees have no fruit set on them at all!

soft fruit is doing well, picking raspberries now

they can get colds and i have before had a chicken that got a seed or something in its eye and it went a bit mucky but sneezy and mucky eyes can be a sign of mycoplasmia and this can be fatal. if if you hold her and listen, is she wheezy? myco can be treated with tylan which you can only get from a ...

pigs

if you get on well with keeping pigs and enjoy the resulting pork, then you can have pigs again next year. and if not, you can put the PT up on cleared ground :)

Mandy's right though - they are all girls

which means when I am checking them I can say

" yous ewes you!"

but I say leave em out - i hate the taste of 'oaked' wine

physallis?

you might want to consider the Zwartbles as a breed - they are bred for milking and are very milky and fairly easy lambers and tend to be really docile too - I actually lambed our ZwartblesX ewe whilst she was standing in the middle of a field (other sheep would bolt!) I would suggest looking to see...

are yous guys laughing at my sheep!

boboff wrote:Arn't most of the seed potatoes grown in Scotland? I am sure it is something like over 200mtrs above Sea level you don't get blight? Or was that a dream?

thats what I understand, yup.

you do have to think about it though - we realised it was never going to be financially viable to grow maincrop spuds - when you can get 25 kilos of locally grown spuds for 6 quid.. its not worth the price of the seed potatoes! I don't buy seed potatoes... OK, I did once or twice, but no more. (Bar...

blimey i dont spend anything like that much on growing veg you do have to think about it though - we realised it was never going to be financially viable to grow maincrop spuds - when you can get 25 kilos of locally grown spuds for 6 quid.. its not worth the price of the seed potatoes! but we still ...

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