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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.

Saturday, 12 April 2014

Our first Damien Kids!

Last spring we were very very lucky to buy (at auction) a fantastic bloodline boer buck kid. Damien is now just over a year old and we're very pleased with him. 


Damien comes from great stock so we have high hopes for him and his kids. His grandfather is Terraweena Burger, truely a legend in the Boer Goat world. Burger is said to have "changed the shape of Australian Boer goats" and is highly rated for his contribution to the Terraweena & Macgregor studs and thus the austrialian boer goat industry as a whole. Damien was born in the UK from sperm tubes imported from Australia and implanted into a doe. We feel very honered to have him :)
Damien


Late last year he was put in with 2 yearling Nubian females for his first servicing job. As you can imagine we were incredibly excited about the kids he would produce and we havent been disappointed!!! He has fathered 3 girls and 1 boy. For the year we've had this is a fairly high boy - girl ratio so we're hoping this will continue :)  (we've heard Burger discribed as slightly afemine so maybe its these genes coming into play and producing lots of girls, lets hope so, our man Aaron definatly seems to have alot of boys haha )


This is April, born April 1st. Such gorgeous facial markings!!! A lovely healthy baby weighing 3.4kg so a pretty good size baby as well :)

April

Next came Slyvia, Swift and Snowy on 3rd April. Triplets are a big ask for a young first time mum but she coped with the birth really well.  Slyvia & Swift were lovely healthy babies, good weights of 3.7 and 3.2kg! 

Swift
Slyvia


 Snowy was abit on the small side though at only 2.5kg. He got brought into the house to keep warm over night and to dry off. Being so small he also found it very difficult to feed from his mum so being in the kitchen made it much easier for those 3am feeds :)

Snowy



Snowy saying hi to April
Luckily he wasnt on his own in the house, one of our tradtional boers had also had triplets 2 days before and Bert was already in the house. Snowy really helped our sick little Bert come out of his shell.










After being born blind and deaf Berts now out with the 3 triplets and with his little friend Snowy is doing really well :)



Bert chasing Slyvia 



 Damien really didnt disapoint this year :) Very excited about using him on some of our traditional boers later in the summer!

 
Slyvia & mum Swallow

Swift








Swift and mum Swallow
Slyvia chilling out
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