The Poultry Keeper

nigel · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:30 pm Post subject:

Dusty will be looking for a new home too..

Knobby · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:49 pm Post subject:

If you cant re-home her with her friends, then I'll maybe take her...... Confused

mojo · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject:

off topic i know but have you got a swedish place now

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1316 Location: Leicestershire

I know this thread has gone slightly askew from the original question - which was can you hold a full time job and keep cattle as well, well I work as an agricultural contractor - mostly with cattle and quite a few of my customers are what I call "part time farmers". Their cattle are as well looked after as any others, one man had 50 Charollais cows + calves and growers - he had a wife as well, which was useful, sorry Knobby I don't know your situation, you probably only fancy a couple anyway, but yes it can be done - electric light is useful on dark evenings! Laughing

NannyP · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:37 pm Post subject:

Don't think Knobby has heard of electric lights Wink

Knobby · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:50 am Post subject:

Hey...Ive got "lectrickery" I'll have you know !!! Neutral

George · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 5661 Location: London

a hamster in a wheel with a generator isn't quite the same Wink

NannyP · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:11 am Post subject:

It's probably chickens, pedalling away like in Chicken Run Laughing

Knobby · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:15 am Post subject:

My chooks are too lazy to do that !!!

traditionalbritishfowlco · Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 243 Location: lancashire

It's totally possible to have livestock and a job, as long as you're prepared to get up early and be tired all the time...

I leave home at 7 so I'm up at 6 to get everything fed before I go, and i get back at 8 which is totally miserable in winter but not so bad now.

The only reason i dont have cows or anything is because I dont fancy getting up even earlier, I'm the kind of person who needs ten hours sleep a night (a boring sod!)

When i can drive though (soon) I won't have to leave until 8.30 and I'll be home at 7...so who knows!!!???

mojo · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:27 pm Post subject:

over here in nearly every village there is one or two big full time farms and the rest are partimers...1 is a postie,1 works in a logging concession,1 is a butcher(but he aint got cattle),1 a teacher and that is just in our hamlet oooh and of course there are the retired interlopers keeping chickens..thats us

NannyP · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject:

I think Knobby is up even earlier than 6, as he has a long drive to work Shocked

Wouldn't catch me doing that Confused

traditionalbritishfowlco · Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 243 Location: lancashire

Commuting sucks bigtime, 3 hrs to get to work in the morning, but it gives me the money to do everything I want (well, not quite, but I can save up for my acreage Very Happy

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NannyP · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:49 pm Post subject:

3 hours, and then 3 hours back Shocked

It takes me 15 minutes Very Happy

traditionalbritishfowlco · Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 243 Location: lancashire

It's only 40 miles but its the traffic - murder in the morning, 3 hrs, but only 11/2 home? By car it'd only be 11/2 in the morn and 40mins-1hr in the evenings but i cant drive just yet, will be going for test v soon though! I'd love to give it all up for sure, i never thought I'd let myself get into that situation but i get paid so good it'd be really hard to give that up. not that i have an extravagant lifestyle or shop at amrks and sparks - i dont know where it goes!

Oh yes I do...chickens!!!!!