the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

anglo nubians are beautiful rozeepozee, I agree.

I really think DH and I need to arrange to go there for a visit and with some egg boxes!

alfie_1

:DTRUST ME !! i want the wallaby !!

i put hay out yesterday, anticipating a heavy frost, and they were not interested?
last week i nearly lost my TB when he some how got one of his long gangly legs through the belly strap on his rug! it pulled the rug SO tight on his chest that he was choking having "cut" off his windpipe... i ran down the field [lucky i saw him acting strange!] and ripped open the buckles on the front to release the pressure. he took a good half hour to get himself together. hence i am now paranoidly checking his rug!!
have tightened up his straps more now having bought a new replacement rug with better strap work....
i have 3 old [well 1 winter] rugs that i would like to donate to a horse charity if anyone knows of one ???

i know, most rugs can be used for years but i spoil my "babies" too much....

Davesnave

Hmmm....hadn't considered goats. Anything that goes in a curry is fine with me. Our original intention was to get a small herd of alpacas going, but this place is in such a TB hotspot, we're not keen atm.

Despite the bright skies, we looked at the weather forecast and decided the most useful thing we could do would be to replenish the freezer, so that's what we did. It began to snow literally two minutes after we arrived home.

No snow now, just wet, which is just as well, as I think we are out on an unplanned long trip tomorrow.

Lotus-eater

Davesnave wrote: »

Hmmm....hadn't considered goats. Anything that goes in a curry is fine with me. Our original intention was to get a small herd of alpacas going, but this place is in such a TB hotspot, we're not keen atm.

Despite the bright skies, we looked at the weather forecast and decided the most useful thing we could do would be to replenish the freezer, so that's what we did. It began to snow literally two minutes after we arrived home.

No snow now, just wet, which is just as well, as I think we are out on an unplanned long trip tomorrow.

I don't understand Alpacas, at least you can eat a goat. How the hell do Alpacas pay for themselves. They don't, is the answer, all this guff about selling the wool. You see how far towards looking after and buying one that gets you.
You can make money from selling breeding stock.......... to other people who want to make money from selling breeding stock.... It's pyramid selling.


Anyway.... that's what I think :rotfl:

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

:DTRUST ME !! i want the wallaby !!

i put hay out yesterday, anticipating a heavy frost, and they were not interested?
last week i nearly lost my TB when he some how got one of his long gangly legs through the belly strap on his rug! it pulled the rug SO tight on his chest that he was choking having "cut" off his windpipe... i ran down the field [lucky i saw him acting strange!] and ripped open the buckles on the front to release the pressure. he took a good half hour to get himself together. hence i am now paranoidly checking his rug!!
have tightened up his straps more now having bought a new replacement rug with better strap work....
i have 3 old [well 1 winter] rugs that i would like to donate to a horse charity if anyone knows of one ???

i know, most rugs can be used for years but i spoil my "babies" too much....

Charity not too far away...Horse world in Bristol or world horse welfare in....somerton, somerset?

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I don't understand Alpacas, at least you can eat a goat. How the hell do Alpacas pay for themselves. They don't, is the answer, all this guff about selling the wool. You see how far towards looking after and buying one that gets you.
You can make money from selling breeding stock.......... to other people who want to make money from selling breeding stock.... It's pyramid selling.


Anyway.... that's what I think :rotfl:

I don'tmind anyone having them as pets/woold/trekking etc. BUT personally I find it terribly sad how each year there are fewer sheep and more alpacas where sheep tents used to be at county shows. Lots of smallholders who show have them where sheep used to be for a hobby, but those kinds of people are the people who kept the less ''commercial'' (and hardier) sheep breeds numbers up and gene pool less compromised that's something I find really sad.

davesnave if you farm goats I'll buy some meat from you.

Goats are lovely people too, doggy! (I notice a theme in my chicken/goat analogies). But they are bright and tamable...you can get a goat cart for DW. A ferret on a goat cart would be quite a talking point!

Davesnave

Lotus-eater wrote: »

It's pyramid selling.

Anyway.... that's what I think :rotfl:

And I'd agree. By the time they get on top of TB, if that's possible, the bottom will be clean out of the alpaca market. Indeed, it's probably already peaked. Then, they become just expensive guard dogs. Nice ones, though. :cool:

The more I think about it, the better having weaners looks. I don't want to make friends with my dinner, so the 15 week turn-around appeals. Same as for sheep, there's the chance to have rare breeds too.

rhiwfield

Scratching in a winter wonderland

choille

It aint great here.
The regulator froze on the gas.
I hope it aint gonna be like last year.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

It aint great here.
The regulator froze on the gas.
I hope it aint gonna be like last year.

Choille, prepared as if it is going to be and then if it isn't you'll still be ok.


Its pretty here, a dusting....enough to look festive, not enough to close roads. Just as well, we need to go out for animal food.

I seem to have damaged my right hand. Think it might be an infection...its very hot and swollen fro the base of index finger right up to the wrist. Sometimes my nerves do similar things, but I don't think I normally get heat in them. So, I'm going to go and find a chemist for some advise, once dh has changed a fuse in the LR....the lights were out last night and DH is convinced its just a fuse I hope so!