The Poultry Keeper

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7322 Location: isle of lewis

here is brandy with nonie

she adores him ,he's very powerfull and smelly
some pics of the show ,the goats were fed by loads of children and didn't want their tea when they got home

may playing she's putting her leg over val's lead

ali with tine he's really naughty

just had to add this one
it's val and tine when they were younger playing with the chickens

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7322 Location: isle of lewis

you'll have to excuse may she is milking off her back a bit ,sorry jan no highlands this cow was supreme champion of the show

a highland x AA

loved the udder on this cow Rolling Eyes

Spana · Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 2207 Location: North Cornwall

They're great pictures suz.

I looked at the last pic and said to OH to come and see this little HxAA heifer, saying she had a lovely udder Very Happy

then scrolled down a bit to see i had echo'd your words Laughing

I hope my turkeys look like yours do Laughing

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7322 Location: isle of lewis

the cow that won had a teat that was about 4 inch's or more round ,i was talking to nonie about trying to milk her ,i'm afraid it had deb is stitches oh was creased up as well ,cannot imagine why

Spana · Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 2207 Location: North Cornwall

Most people dont realize the difficulties of having a cow with big teats. Laughing

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7322 Location: isle of lewis

if you look very closely at the far side teat ,you'll might see what i mean
sorry i ort to get a life and i'm sorry for the content of this pic Embarassed

one of the heifers in the pen was bulling ,lovely cow though

and a pic of suki, she gives about 5 liters a day

Bradders · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 962 Location: Cambridgeshire

Great pics Suz
The goats are lovely and so are the cows Very Happy

manic nonie · Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:21 pm Post subject:

nice to see one of my cow take supreme champion was one of my hiefers from a while back. good to see it win.

farmercoop · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject:

Your togg looks gourjous suz! Think we should swop for a few weeks and when my girls great we can swop back! why didnt we think of this before! haha, thanks for showing us the pics!

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7322 Location: isle of lewis

she'd cost a fortune in postage ,
and she can be a cantackerous moo

farmercoop · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject:

Haha! going to try milking my cantancerous girl at about 4 30 so ill post on the problem goat post and i'll let you know!! eek! not looking forward to it!

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7322 Location: isle of lewis

think positive Wink

Teasal · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject:

What lovely goats you have. I want to get back into keeping milking goats again - not one like farmercoops though! - not long ago I kept 8 nannies, and here I am with just two castrated Anglo Nubian boys!!!

debcat · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:44 am Post subject:

one of Suz's kids from last year (ignore the mucky window)

April being naughty

farmercoop · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:47 am Post subject:

Aha, typical!! and you should get into milking again, if me and this girl dont end up getting on then.. Haha, no one on here would ever have her after what ive said!!