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  1. Donna Wildwood
    Bugger the working hard..... Get yourself some Shetland sheep! Let THEM do the hardwork of bringing back decent pasture, and as an added bonus fill your freezer with the best hogg mutton you ever tasted You don't get sheep and clear ground yourself lol!
  2. Donna Wildwood
    Don't chuck the tub out, sling the contents and re fill it with bi carb. Best smell removing stuff I know of!
  3. Donna Wildwood
    Well i made it in and out again! Really boggy in some places, suprisingly dry in others! I'm going in there at the weekend with the scythe and see if I can't make some tracks through for easier investigation... I think pigs are going to be the way to go, and a fella i know up the road has a litter of Iron Age piglets readyto go in a few weeks, hurrah! I reckon I best get onto the ministry and get a slap mark!
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    I could but it's about 15 yards from my gates I am surrounded by the most amazing landscape, but do have to be a little careful as most of it is owned by the conservation charities. However by being my usual charming self, the land that belongs to farmers, or is rented by them I have free access to in return for them having help with the cattle. I now know the places to mooch about and know i won't meet another soul......
  5. Donna Wildwood
    There are plenty of ducks here, not sure of the legalities of taking em being near the nature reserves and all that... the ground won't take a digger either lol! I thought about turning the goats in there but they are made of sugar and would melt in the wet. i am hopefully going to get the deadwood out for me burner and maybe scythe a few pathways round in it. there are deer tracks leading to it but I don't know if they are roe or muntjac (never seen a muntjac for all my years of living feral lol!) I'm going in tommorrow so if you don't hear from me I have sunk! Would pigs be alright
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    Hey guys! My landlord has just given me permission to 'do what yous like, I ain't got time for it' with roughly 2 acres of wet woodland. mainly alder and birch. Any ideas what could be done with it. Anything delicious likely to be living in it? I'm used to woodlands, but not prehistoric looking jungles like this. It's gonna take me a day to clear the bridge over the rhyne just to walk in to it!
  7. Donna Wildwood
    I've heard its nice round Cheddar way ? If you choose Cheddar I'm only 15 mins away, drop round for a cuppa or a beer
  8. Donna Wildwood
    All they will check for is a sticker on the card (which comes with the vaccine) and a signature...... Should you happen to know any one (online perhaps) that vaccinates their own dog maybe they would aid your new sticker colletion?
  9. Donna Wildwood
    It depends on the severety of the hernia (fat lot of help that is eh? lol) Some will go, some can be helped along but some will need surgery. I reckon at 4 weeks you are safe enough to wait and see for a wee while, I would have a chat with the vet anyway as if they do need surgery it is often an easier fix on a youngster
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    If it's any help i feed my border collie raw, and when he gets rabbits, it is with the skin on. He will catch a bunster but not kill it. If i try to feed him once of my domestic meat rabbits he won't eat it skinned or not. If i have a rabbit get out he won't even look at it! Weirdo. He also wont eat any of my own reared chickens or lamb but will eat it if i get it somewhere else
  11. Donna Wildwood
    How old is he? If between 9 to 15 months my bet is he's teething his molars. My collies were gits for chewing then despite having knuckle bones about. i was advised to get some beef rib bones instead and saw them into single ribs. Worked a treat, they could get the flat bone right to the back of their jaw and chew on the sore bits. Bunging the bones in the freezer first helped. The fella that told me about the rib bones also said that methodic chewing where they can really champ down with the angle of the jaw releases endorphins and kills the pain as well as helps the teeth come through.
  12. Donna Wildwood
    Can I really be the only person to like.... BEETLE JUICE!!!
  13. Donna Wildwood
    Another vote for the chicken wing here too! If you can get hold of chicken wing tips, ie the trimmings with only one joint they are fab as they are more cartilage than proper bone. When I used to keep cats I bought in boxes of day old chicks frozen, the little terrier I had at the time used to enjoy them too
  14. Donna Wildwood
    What a sweetheart! Good on you for helping the little fella If I weren't so skint I'd offer a home myself!
  15. Donna Wildwood
    If I get my girls served, I will have some kits avaliable. Both very light but dark eyes (probably got a proper name lol!) I'm not far from Cheddar
  16. Donna Wildwood
    I've seen a few nasty accidents with the shears, one ewe struggled and got hamstrung, another time a silly bint did'nt think to tell the shearer one of her sheep was a wether not a ewe and he promply got his winker clipped off not my sheep fortunately. I do mine with hand shears the old fashioned way, I'm far to precious about my sheep to let someone else do it! LOL! Must admit though, not looking forward to doing my ram Riley, he's got extra pointy bits to keep out of the way of lol! Though I have to say since getting him I haven't had any problems with wankers letting their dogs chas
  17. Donna Wildwood
    Not for my guys, I keep Shetlands in Somerset so they feel the warth before the big fat commercial pigsheep! If I don't shear them now they will shed it all off and i lose the wool for spinning!There's a ewe opposite my kids school,nearly scratched all hers off,she looks well moth eaten,lol Looks horrible don't it? I can't be doing with untidy sheep! Mine do also have access to shelter at all times, so if it does get chilly they have the option. Also they like to stay dry and it keeps their fleeces in top notch condition too
  18. Donna Wildwood
    Big fat commercial sheep are like beetles when they get stuck on their backs, and can die. When upside down the can't belch or cud and gas builds up in the rumen, unless tipped back up they can suffocate cos the pressure builds on the diaphram and they can't breath properly. In my experience most sheep grazing on their knees have painfull feet - normally foot rot.
  19. Donna Wildwood
    Not for my guys, I keep Shetlands in Somerset so they feel the warth before the big fat commercial pigsheep! If I don't shear them now they will shed it all off and i lose the wool for spinning!
  20. Donna Wildwood
    Looking for a hob in Somerset area please, buy borrow or have some of the kits in return! Thanks
  21. Donna Wildwood
    Been shearing today, getting laughed at by the other farmers cos of my method.... Call sheep over, give her a bucket of cake and take her fleece off. Shoo her out and start the next one! Seem much easier to me than dragging wild beasts around contorting yerself and them just to get the job done lol! Also I'm lambing late this year cos of the move and don't want to be tipping them over. Back is arsed again now though so am leaving the other for another day. So glade I ate all the naughty ones, if i need to load em up now I just open the trailer door and they go in looking for food...
  22. Donna Wildwood
    I reckon that whatever 2 CONSENTING adults get up to is their own business, if ya wanna get married go for it. I have no kids nor the desire for them as i am the least maternal female on the planet, so shan't say anything about same sex parents. People are saying it's perverse? How about BDSM? shall we ban that? Threesomes? shall we ban those? How many (fellas mainly ) of you who think it is against nature have asked your missus to take it up the arse? According to the bible it is against God's will to have sex with someone of the same sex. If I remember correctly so is masturbation.
  23. Donna Wildwood
    Well I'm back! Bloody hell these things work! Doc said to keep as active as possible, me an the dog have been walking miles! It's fab, I never realised how much pain I was in and how limiting it was till it stopped! I m hoping that now I can get out and bout exercising properly again, the pain should stay away after the meds have stopped On side note, the Cuckoo has been calling non stop and I have heard the Bitterns booming at last! YAY!
  24. Donna Wildwood
    Not normally one for prescription meds if i can help it, but with my back f****d as it is I had to admit defeat and go see the docs with it. 3 fused vertebre (how do you spell it???) and sciatica. However he also gave me naproxen and codiene dihydroclosomethingorother. OH MY GODS I can see why your only allowed them for a few days at a time! Pink and fluffy here I come. Gone from being in agony, to space cadet in 1/2 hour! Hopefully it'll wear off soon and I can get stuff done! lol!
  25. Donna Wildwood

    Rats

    Donna Wildwood replied to twelsh's topic in General Talk

    ere ya go..... http://www.trapman.co.uk/rat-trap-multi-catch-humane-rat-trap.htm
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