Our free range chickens, geese and turkeys are traditional slow growing breeds, the long growth period allows the birds to develop properly so that we can offer larger, healthier and more succulent poultry.
At night we bring our birds inside to ensure they are safe from hungry country foxes!
Newlyns flock of sheep number about 850 ewes and breeding rams. Our Poll Dorset ewes give birth at Christmas time which ensures that we have new season lamb in our shop for Easter. We use traditional Hampshire Down rams to produce lambs which live outside all year round eating grass and turnips.
Newlyns herd of 250 pigs are all free range and kept in small paddocks where they are able to root around in the ground for their pellets of food. In summer they are able to cool down in specially constructed wallows of water and mud and in winter time they keep warm with fresh straw and the shelter of their arks. The piglets spend the first couple of weeks with their mothers in the 'farrowing' hut before getting brave enough to venture outside.
Newlyns have around 280 cows. We use traditional breeds such as, Hereford and Shorthorn.
The cows live indoors for the winter in big airy sheds. The calves are born outdoors at the end of April so that they can enjoy the grass and good weather.
The family operate a 500 acre traditional mixed farm producing beef cattle, outdoor pigs, sheep, free-range chickens, free-range turkeys at Christmas, as well as growing cereal crops. We can assure you that our animals are bred using traditional breeds such as Hampshire Down rams, Shorthorn bulls, and Berkshire pigs. Our animals have complete traceability from field to shop and are reared under the highest standards of welfare by stockmen with a lifetime of experience.
This type of mixed farm with its diverse range of enterprises, many of which compliment each other, is a dying breed as many farms become specialised or are forced to streamline their operations by rising costs and lack of available labour.
Currently the farm employs nine full time staff and three part time staff, all of whom live locally.
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