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 Topic: eating animals after they have given birth? |
guyandzoe
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 Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Mon Nov 03, 08 10:18 pm Subject: eating animals after they have given birth? |
| Not a problem if you're going to home kill, but otherwise check your slaughter house has the facility to kill and deal with a pig as big as a sow - some cant. |
| Topic: Making a living - downsizing to a country smallholding |
guyandzoe
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Fri Apr 18, 08 3:41 pm Subject: Making a living - downsizing to a country smallholding |
Oh how refreshing to find negative comments about that seymore bloke. Its quite a lot of hoey mixed with some very bad advice.
4 acres in Wales wont give you a 'living' as in a conventional 'wage'. ... |
| Topic: Seed potato quantities |
guyandzoe
Replies: 7
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Sun Jan 27, 08 12:56 pm Subject: Seed potato quantities |
You need to know the seed size. Seed potatoes are graded over riddles of (usually) 35mm - 55mm or (more expensively) over a 35x50mm.
From memory a 35x55 will give about 250 to 300 spuds per 50kg sa ... |
| Topic: Duck eggs |
guyandzoe
Replies: 11
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Sat Jan 26, 08 10:57 am Subject: Duck eggs |
Ducks are soooo messy.
I love duck eggs too much to get rid of the girls tho  |
| Topic: Whilst I remember... |
guyandzoe
Replies: 13
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sat Jan 26, 08 10:37 am Subject: Whilst I remember... |
Google 'prawns'.
Up here I'm afraid no one calls 'em langustine they are known as prawns. Someone should really get their marketing goggles on!!
I am looking out at the Loch to see the prawn boa ... |
| Topic: Are you legal? |
guyandzoe
Replies: 22
Views: 12282
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sat Jan 26, 08 10:28 am Subject: Are you legal? |
| In the highlands HBS at Tore are doing the testing. They assure me that for the under 8 hour test one just needs to read thro the test schedule (NPTS site) and some common sense will carry the day. BU ... |
| Topic: Are you legal? |
guyandzoe
Replies: 22
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Wed Jan 23, 08 6:08 pm Subject: Are you legal? |
| All animals are covered. There are a number of let outs such as individual animals accompanied by their owner or responsible person. That means you can transport 12 sheep in your trailer so long as yo ... |
| Topic: Hare ideas? |
guyandzoe
Replies: 8
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Sat Sep 01, 07 9:05 am Subject: Hare ideas? |
Hare goes very nicely with a chocolate sauce.
guy |
| Topic: Ducks |
guyandzoe
Replies: 5
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Sat Sep 01, 07 9:03 am Subject: Ducks |
Our Khakis wander a long way and would walk off if the boundary wasn't fenced - at which point some carnivore would eat them!!
Ducks are mucky b�$$"&s and you will need a house that can very ea ... |
| Topic: Important Equipment |
guyandzoe
Replies: 91
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Sat Sep 01, 07 8:46 am Subject: Important Equipment |
| You need three or four chopping boards which are easily distinguishable - one for meat, one for veg (as someone said earlier one for onions of you're fussy and most important one for lemon for G&T ... |
| Topic: Deeds to house say no livestock... what to do? |
guyandzoe
Replies: 17
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Sat Sep 01, 07 8:31 am Subject: Deeds to house say no livestock... what to do? |
I think that when you signed the Deeds you made a contract with the vendor. He and any previous owner could enforce the Deed as could anyone else who knows about its detail.
Having said that a deed ... |
| Topic: FMD what can move? |
guyandzoe
Replies: 23
Views: 12011
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Tue Aug 21, 07 8:48 pm Subject: FMD what can move? |
| If you dont live in England then you need to check with your own agric department website. i.e. SEERAD for Scotland, welsh office(?) for wales and whatever in N. Ireland. Defra is not the be all and e ... |
| Topic: Track over a bog |
guyandzoe
Replies: 11
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Tue Aug 21, 07 8:42 pm Subject: Track over a bog |
I think drain it dig it fill it.
Also consider using a fabric to separate the sub base from the infill. In our case - -not the worst I admit the fabric did help to allow the stone on top to squeeze ... |
| Topic: LLanfyllin Show |
guyandzoe
Replies: 4
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Sat Aug 11, 07 10:09 am Subject: LLanfyllin Show |
It was Mackeson as in the family who make the drink!!
guy |
| Topic: What actualy is a live stock "movement"? |
guyandzoe
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Sat Aug 11, 07 10:05 am Subject: What actualy is a live stock "movement"? |
Moving animals within a single holding is surely not a 'movement'. Cows are not being milked in the fields afterall!!
Best bet is to ring your local Defra, Seerad, welsh office, whatever and get th ... |
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