Waking up to the sound of birds singing. We are very lucky. Our first kid was born at the end of January (looking back, I can't believe it was that long ago already!). This was Mo, our first Boer x Nubian. He was followed by 12 more Boer x Nubian kids. We are selling 3 girls and keeping 2 for Beckie to milk to use in her soap.
Mo, our first kid of the year:
Toffee, one of Beckie's future milkers:
We welcomed 3 new Anglo Nubian girls to the farm earlier in the year and 2 of these were in kid. These were the next to kid and we have 2 lovely full Anglo Nubian girls as well as 1 boy. All rather lovely, with good bloodlines for our future breeding.
Martha with her kids:
We got our Boers inside just in time as one decided to kid the day after. We have 9 full Boer kids born so far but others look like they are about to blow so shouldn't be long until more arrive.
Remember Storm and Swallow, who we had to bottle feed back in 2012? Well we put them to our australian boer buck for this season. We have been watching Swallow as she has been looking ready for a few days then yesterday, Storm decided to surprise us with a little girl. A hard birth but they got there in the end and Mum and baby are doing well now.
Lady May:
We decided to pick up two Oxford Sandy and Black pigs at the weekend, otherwise we wouldn't of had enough meat over the summer period. We're hoping to be able to take these to the Norfolk Smallholders Show in August. The goat meat has been selling well in the shop and the pork sausages seem a favourite of most. We are thinking of starting meat boxes and would like to know if anyone would be interested in these? For now we were thinking of pork boxes to contain 10kg of a mix of sausages, joints and chops? In the coming summer/autumn we're hoping to expand these to contain goat as well. We're planning on adding seasonal fresh fruit, veg & other products to the boxes, such as jams, chutneys, cakes & eggs when available. We're also hoping to start going to a few farmers markets later in the year. Our first one is Creake Abby on the 19th of April so hopefully we may see some of you there? :)
Some of our meat on display in our shop:
Our preparation unit arrived a few weeks back and we are currently in the process of getting this set up then going through the necessary checks. We'll be producing our goat milk products as well as making more with our meat, including developing some new flavours for our rarebreed pork sausages and burgers and starting to try out traditional curing some meats. We are all very excited about this. We've had people asking about our raw goats milk for quite some time and it will be lovely to be able to provide this for them after so long! You can currently buy our milk for animal consumption.
We have had several bookings coming in for our holiday cottages. The first person of the year comes in next week so Jackie and Hayley will be busy with these as well. Jackie has been doing some decorating to make sure they are ready and they are looking nice & fresh after the re-vamp. We look forward to welcoming more guests to enjoy the farm with us.
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