"We're completely committed to keeping traditional breeds and farming in a sustainable and truly free range way. It really is the only way."
Over the Stile
Turkeys
The Turkeys continue to grow and grow! They are really piling through the food at the moment with a sack of growers disappearing in just a day. We intend to cull 10 Stags for the table in December and already have ‘homes’ for the birds. Hopefully the reduction in the Stags will cut down on the feed needed as well as cutting down on the mating fights that will take place in March!
Norfolk Black Turkeys
The Turkey enclosure has been built and the Turkeys just love it. They are completely free ranging now and have really grown quickly which we attribute to being outside with plenty of fresh air and natural food upon which to forage.
We really hope that this will feed through into an excellent egg laying programme for 2010. Our rearing arks have arrived and so we really are all set for raising upward of 1,000 Turkey poults which will be for sale in 2010.
Its very exciting at the moment. We also have a few too many Stags in the pen which we intend to slaughter for the Christmas table for 2009 but these will only be marketed locally. We aim to raise maybe 100 for the table in 2010 which we may sell through the web site.