The Poultry Keeper

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7309 Location: isle of lewis

of course you'd be welcome to come and stay Very Happy

,it's funny my goats don't go anywhere near the electric fence even when it's off it's a nightmare getting them out of the feild as it's splilt in 2 and there is no gate betewn the 2 i have to get one of the ckids to hold the wire up and walk a goat underneath ,they don't want to and you can see them thinking yeh right we'll be underneath it and you'll drop it Twisted Evil

,kevin from the crofters who knows your brother in law by the way jaydee,has said i can have a hefier as soon as it's weaned next year ,if i'm still interested i think his ones come from the shetland center but where brought over from shetland ,i've asked around at the crofters and other places and there are no pure dexters on the island ,there are 3 highland x dexters though ,so it looks as if a dexter is off the cards as i wouldn't buy anything this important without seeing it and meeting it ,and as some people know i don't do the minch Wink

CP · Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 2:20 am Post subject:

Eek! Not the blue men again??

Tell me Suz ... how did you get on to Lewis in the first place????????? Rolling Eyes

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7309 Location: isle of lewis

it's a good excuse Wink

sea sickness pill and woke up here Shocked

if i left the island my dad would expect me to stay with him for a few days , then my mother the same then there is all the other people that would like me to stay with them and as i wouldn't want to hurt any of them ,then it's just easier if i don't leave the island Wink

,i wouldn't get back for about a month Shocked

,and i couldn't leave anyone to look after the animals ,they are mine not really oh's ,so i couldn't expect him to cope ,the blue men are a good excuse Laughing

and i'm not sure that after living here i could cope with the mainland again ,we never lock out car ,you can leave your handbag on a trolley in the shop and it'll be there when you get back ,and the sheep would miss me Very Happy

i know all excuses Embarassed

i think my father is disappionted as his cousin owns the apple
herd (dexters ) Wink

Fenn · Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 2292 Location: Shrewsbury

To be perfectly honest Suz, if I lived on the islands I very much doubt that I would ever leave again, either Wink

Am very jealous of your prospective house cow!!!

jaydee67 · Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject:

LOL - not really surprised that he knows Laurence - I think his reputation would precede him! lol!

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7309 Location: isle of lewis

,he was lovely and really explained a couple of things that i needed to get straight Wink

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7309 Location: isle of lewis

well i'm sad to say the house cow is on hold ,everytime i think i can cope with that something else worries me about it,one day maybe Confused

2 things put me off
1 as soon as i get a cow it's tb tests
every year for a while ,and as i cannot say what will happen to the calves ei meat or milk it will be for a while ,
and
2 the story about the chap that feed his cows guinea pig food i know he had been looked at before ,for poor record keeping,not keeping his books properly and tagging ,nonies cows are always loosing their tags Rolling Eyes

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but the whole of his herd 70 head where destroyed and it wasn't written on the label that there was crushed bone in the feed ,they analized it and found it Crying or Very sad

,not sure about how bad the bloke was ,but i don't know if i could cope ith the ectra ,there is already 2 poultry books to keep ,2 goat books and 2 sheep books
i've got to find something to use up the grass Confused

any ideas

CP · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:25 am Post subject:

A donkey? Llama? Ostrich? Shocked

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7309 Location: isle of lewis

donkey ,don't do that well here Confused

Llama i'll leave you to suggest that to the vet Shocked

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Ostrich now there is an idea Very Happy

Spana · Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 2205 Location: North Cornwall

I'm told Ostrich meat is VERY EXPENSIVE. Shocked

Dont know how much grass they would eat tho Laughing

Bl**dy paper work put us off trying lots of things. Sad

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7309 Location: isle of lewis

yep agreed about the paperwork
Evil or Very Mad

my big boss at the coop asked if i got my cow ,would i be making butter and cheese ,because it would be lovely to sell some of it Shocked

,we do only sell local lamb apart from the frozen new zeland lamb ,it is expensive ,i explained no because of how may rules and regs there are
he was saying when he worked at the butchers next door
a local man from point used to keep 6 milking cows and used to make cheese and butter in pats with a thistle pressed into it , he said the same thing bl**dy paperwork ,i would do it if i was going to have a few ,

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7309 Location: isle of lewis

well that'll teach me i phoned the svs today (state vet service for those who don't know to find out some info about animal feed batch numbers ,just something that i wanted to know ,the bloke was helpfull
thing is while i was on i thought i'd ask about the cow that i'm keen on
oh was in the back ground shaking his head and this chap was saying it's easier than i thought
spent most of the time trying to convise me that a house cow was no bother

Loudmouth Schnook · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject:

I think OH knew what was coming.... Laughing

jaydee67 · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject:

Go Suz! Just don't name it after me - Suzy Sussex is laying well (and so is Debs Dumpy)

debcat · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject:

ooh, have you got any updated pics JD