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Hello from the Brownes. We're a family run farm in rural Aylsham. Our farm is home to Robins Rare Breed Oxford Sandy and Black pigs which we breed for their lovely meat (said to be the best tasting meat out of all rare breed pigs) The Farm is also home to Robin & Beckie's Boer Goats bred for their high quality healthy meat low in cholesterol and high in protien) We're also trying to increase the quanity of our very good quailty stock to help improve bloodlines through the country. Jackies Anglo Nubian goats, kept for both their meat, which is incredibly healthy for you and their milk which we're planning to make cheese, icecream, soap, moisturiser and a probiotic drink with. We also keep a few chickens, some traditonal breeds as well as hybrids and some Muscovy ducks for their free range eggs as well as David having arable land to produce home grown cereals for our animals. We also have 3 holiday cottages alongside the farm. These are run by Jackie and Hayley. All visitors have acess to our private section of the river Bure. We'd like to share the farm experience with visitors to Bure Valley Farm and those following our blog. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Sunday, 15 January 2012

Week 2

So this week has brought even more new members to our ever growing family. Even winter has turned out to be a busy time after all.

Monday: David and Jackie picked up some POL brown hens to replace our old ladies, who we are currently finding new homes for. These hens produce the majority of the free range eggs we sell but we do have pure breed chickens too.
Tuesday: David and Kody cleared up some wood, ready to be burnt on our wood burning boiler, which keeps us and our holiday cottage guests warm.
Wednesday: Today all five of us got stuck in clearing branches, ready to put the goat fencing up for their summer housing.
Thursday: Went to see some goats and came home with a lovely Anglo Nubian billy called Duncan. Our three ladies aren't sure what to make of him yet but he seems very happy with his new company. Let's hope we'll have some kids in a few months then some tasty milk and other products. Duncan:
Friday: David and Kody put all the fence posts in for the goats summer housing.
Saturday: Last year we discovered our pigs are amazing escape artists so they were moved to temporary housing. Today David and Kody have hopefully escape proofed the origional fencing so our lovely ladies can be moved back.
Sunday: David, Jackie and Kody have gone to pick up the other goats from where Duncan came. These are two Anglo Nubian x Golden Guernsey nannies, Lucy and Fudge. Also, one castrated male, Fabion, to keep Duncan company when not with the ladies. Let's hope they all settle in well together. This afternoon we're all off to pick up three female Muscovy ducks. We haven't had much luck with these so far as one of our females turned out to be a male and the other sadly managed to get in with the dogs.

Let's see if we can go next week without bringing anyone new home.

Lucy:
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