winterinmoscow said:why is there no option for goat?
I was thinking of those 6lb for 3 quid Frankenchickens that you see lined up in the supermarket. By the time they've reached the table our chooks cost us about 9 quid each. Fuck knows how they get them all the same weight and so cheaplyOrang Utan said:Chicken is quite expensive still though - chicken breasts are ridiculously dear and they're the most tasteless bit of the chicken, esp if you buy vacuum packed battery supermarket shite

i don't think i've ever said - a part of me really envies the smallholding thing you do. I mean, i've always lived in london, and i suspect it might not suit me at all, but it seems appealing.madzone said:I was thinking of those 6lb for 3 quid Frankenchickens that you see lined up in the supermarket. By the time they've reached the table our chooks cost us about 9 quid each. Fuck knows how they get them all the same weight and so cheaply![]()
Some days it nourishes me to my very soul, other days I want to jack it all in as it's so expensive and tiring. Unless you've inherited a property or have nearly paid the mortgage off it just takes all your money. I never thought I'd like it but it's my way of life now and it always surprises me when people aren't as excited by chicken auctions and wool as I amspanglechick said:i don't think i've ever said - a part of me really envies the smallholding thing you do. I mean, i've always lived in london, and i suspect it might not suit me at all, but it seems appealing.

do you buy your animals as babies?madzone said:Some days it nourishes me to my very soul, other days I want to jack it all in as it's so expensive and tiring. Unless you've inherited a property or have nearly paid the mortgage off it just takes all your money. I never thought I'd like it but it's my way of life now and it always surprises me when people aren't as excited by chicken auctions and wool as I am![]()
madzone said:Some days it nourishes me to my very soul, other days I want to jack it all in as it's so expensive and tiring. Unless you've inherited a property or have nearly paid the mortgage off it just takes all your money. I never thought I'd like it but it's my way of life now and it always surprises me when people aren't as excited by chicken auctions and wool as I am![]()
I spent my childhood pretty much on a farm (we didn't live on it but they had loads of daughters who babysat for us and we just spent all our free time there) and I would love to live like that again 
spanglechick said:do you buy your animals as babies?
Most things are born here now. When we moved in we didn't have anything. A local farmer gave us 3 orphan lambs to bottle feed and they were our first animals. I got a really well paid one-off performing job and spent the whole fee on sheep and we were off really. We bought chickens from poultry auctions, 2 pigs from the local bird sanctuaryspanglechick said:do you buy your animals as babies?
confused: ) and the cow from a local farmer. We went to a pony theme park thing and saw that they had the type of duks we wanted. We asked about them and they gave us some eggs to hatch. The goat came from a lovely gay goat breeder
Now we have a ram so the sheep get pregnant when they want (little hussies), we have several roosters and a drake and we'll hire other animals in (we have a visiting boar at the moment to serve the pigs) or we buy semen in 'straws' and artificially inseminate. My husband upset the last AI man we had by offering to hold his trousers 
Cobbles said:Kudu - 100% free range and organic.
I had dog a couple of times in Vietnam - I found it to be a bit coarse and gristly - might just have been a bad cut I suppose.Lock&Light said:Dog.

Cobbles said:I had dog a couple of times in Vietnam - I found it to be a bit coarse and gristly - might just have been a bad cut I suppose.
winterinmoscow said:why is there no option for goat?

Phwoar - is that the salt marsh stuff?pogofish said:A relative is bringing a big hunk of Western Isles lamb from their croft at the weekend. It tends to have a very distinctive taste. Delicious occasionally!![]()
spanglechick said:mmm - i seem to remember chicken tasting of something when i was very young...![]()
I love a nice steak in mushroom sauce with new potatoes too.