The Poultry Keeper

Spineytoad · Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 49 Location: yorkshire

smallholder/livestock courses on the Western Isles, I keep hearing these mentioned on threads.
Where would I find out what courses are being held, where and how much in cost?
I know when I get up there I am gonna have to refresh my memory Wink

on some stuff, and deal with other stuff that I have little to no practical experience of Embarassed

. So some hands on courses could be very useful. Smile

Thanks

Teresa

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7144 Location: isle of lewis

i normally tell everyone Rolling Eyes

,i'm sad and spend a lot of time in the crofters Embarassed

,they have told me they are setting up a bed in the corner ,but it is on the way home from work Rolling Eyes

,where they are usally advertised ,i've done a lot of the ones that are going ,i also think it helps to get to know who's got what and what skills Wink

,normally between 10 and 30 pounds,there are not that many and not normally practical although a very good butchery course i want to do next year that was 30,last one was in a cafe and hector our vet said they where not to keen on us bring a dead calf in to practise on ,it sounds disgusting but you cannot hurt it ,we did practise on dead lambs ,it does help to brush up on rules and regs ,also 2 day course on poultry ,the rest of it normally people welcome people to have a look so not really needed,would you lot agree Confused

debcat · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject:

I learnt about sheep from helping OH
and goats I learnt about from Suz, if I hadn't met Suz I wouldn't have goats now Rolling Eyes

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7144 Location: isle of lewis

it's not my fault Crying or Very sad

and i learnt about sheep off deb ,didn't do the course i wasn't going to keep sheep Rolling Eyes

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i did the lambing course this year ,i did the pig course although kept pigs before

Spineytoad · Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 49 Location: yorkshire

Thats ok then. Sounds good to me Laughing

I'll keep my eyes open for stuff happening locally after we arrive Wink

I knew one of you would point me in the right direction Smile

Will need a pig course before embarking on walking rotovators, rules and regs different and stricter for pigs.
So its learn about goats/pigs from Suz, and sheep from Debcat, Wink

anyone for dual purpose moo cows Question

Teresa

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7144 Location: isle of lewis

nonie ,my daughter does mainly dairy but also calf rears and her's go for beef ,kevin in the crofters has kept milking cows and he now has shetlands for beef,always good to talk to

crossbostchucks · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 99 Location: isle of lewis

and ill just chat all day about nothing so the wife says Shocked

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7144 Location: isle of lewis

but you are very good at it ,

crossbostchucks · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 99 Location: isle of lewis

something im good at then at long last

Spineytoad · Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 49 Location: yorkshire

Thats ok crossbostchucks, I'm quite happy to listen whilst making cups of tea etc Very Happy

and leaning on the garden gate watching chooks

crossbostchucks · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 99 Location: isle of lewis

that sounds good but i dont like tea only drink coffee 1 sugar (brown if possible and coffee mate would be nice)

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7144 Location: isle of lewis

Loudmouth Schnook · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject:

Sounds like we'll need to have a WI PK meet soon!!!! They can't have all the fun down south! Laughing