What was the first farm animal you owned ?

[Henarar]

Just wondering how folk got started
Mine was a Charly cross BF heifer calf

 

[unlacedgecko]

20 Soay sheep.

I’d have been better off just setting fire to £400...

 

[JP1]

18 Lleyn shearlings from Graham Robson, Marton, Southam

 

[DRC]

I remember brother and I having a couple of pigs to fatten. I then started keeping rabbits for meat . A local woman had lots of them and her farm was the collection point once a month. A lorry then took them abroad, think it was to Holland .

 

[unlacedgecko]

I remember brother and I having a couple of pigs to fatten. I then started keeping rabbits for meat . A local woman had lots of them and her farm was the collection point once a month. A lorry then took them abroad, think it was to Holland .

You’ve reminded me. I actually had a couple of fattening weaners before I had sheep. Bloody tasty they were too!

 

[penntor]

A scotch blackface ram.

 

[Henarar]

20 Soay sheep.

I’d have been better off just setting fire to £400...

My heifer calf paid very well she was a gift from Mum, the mistake she made was giving me a heifer not a steer

 

[borderterribles]

Six weaner pigs for my fifth birthday, bought out of Chesterfield Market. That closed about 1967!

 

[Henarar]

I remember brother and I having a couple of pigs to fatten. I then started keeping rabbits for meat . A local woman had lots of them and her farm was the collection point once a month. A lorry then took them abroad, think it was to Holland .

Dad started with rabbits both tame and wild ones

 

[farmerdan7618]

Ayrshire heifer calf, given to me on my 10th birthday by grandad. Still have 7 progeny, and it's where my passion for cows came from.

 

[topground]

Black hereford heifer bought at Winford market opposite the Prince of Waterloo. Bid myself. I was 11. The deposit for my first house came from buying calves to rear and sell on.

 

[will6910]

A nanny goat kid. Came to me when she was 2 days old and she died 13 years later. Helped me through many many hard times

 

[shearerlad]

A blackie ewe and her Suffolk cross lamb at foot. I would of been about 3 at the time. I’ve still got the sales line from McDonald Fraser market (now United Auctions) in Perth

 

[blackieman83]

Bought two aged blackface ewes @£41 and three blackface ewe lambs @£39, there would still be a fair influence of their breeding here all of about 15 years later.

 

[primmiemoo]

A ewe lamb out of one of Dad's Devon Longwool crosses (they had a smidge of his father's Jacob's in the bloodline) and got by his Dorset Horn that we were not allowed to call Randy.

 

[Nithsdale]

Pure Texel ewe bought at an in-lamb sale at Carlisle. She cost £200 and had a single tup lamb the following March...


She's long gone but still the only one I've ever owned myself - the rest are all in the businesses.


First purchase I ever made on my own, was a Texel tup lamb at Castle Douglas. I'd only be 15 or 16 and dad stood back and let me get on with it.

£100 he cost. Went off his feet (became lethargic and lost all appetite) the following January and died.

 

[shearerlad]

£100 he cost. Went off his feet (became lethargic and lost all appetite) the following January and died.

So now we know the history behind the Suffolk uprising

 

[jamesy]

A pure Suffolk ewe sent down from Orkney to Aberdeenshire from my Grandfather.... he then had to buy back the ram lambs!

 

[cheviot53]

Pet lambs from neighbours for half a crown up to ten bob ,fed on cows milk which I had to buy from dad

 

[Newby]

Pet lambs from neighbours for half a crown up to ten bob ,fed on cows milk which I had to buy from dad

I too started with pet lambs but I used to pay a quid a piece for them.