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Can you make 8 acre profitable?

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arugula:
You say you have a small holder number from DEFRA, I assume you mean a CPH or county parish holding number? If you were to keep cattle, pigs, sheep or goats you would need to obtain herd/flock numbers and the animals would need to have ear tags and therefore passports (one and the same thing to all intents and purposes). You need to possess a CPH for a poultry flock in excess of, I think, 50 birds but is easily checked.

I think this is a very informative article:

http://www.smallholder.co.uk/news/927599.registering_a_holding/

With 8 acres I'd do much as John has already said. A few chickens for eggs and meat, maybe a couple of pigs and loads of veg - plenty room for polytunnels - be as self-sufficient as possible.

Lucky you, enjoy what you have. :)

amurdin:
would love to have so much land, got a spare acre by any chance?  :tongue2:

joyfull:
for flocks of birds over 50 you just have to register and you can do this on line which can be found here.
50 birds includes all types of birds in total not just chickens so if you have 30 chickens 10 ducks 3 guinea fowl and 8 geese you would need to be registered.

Redgoat:
You can make a profit on anything if you work hard enough!

Snoop:
Interesting resurrection of this thread, Redgoat.

wcah, can you tell us how you're getting on?

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