A Bronze Turkey for Easter Dinner? We have kept some of our Bronze Turkeys on ice from Christmas. Every Easter we get requests from customers who want to relive the tastes and trimmings of one of our Christmas birds. This Easter we have a selection of Bronze Turkey, Hams and Ducks, simply click and collect […]
We have a number of buffer produce now available for your New Years Dinner. A very limited number of bronze turkeys are available to order online from today for pickup on Thursday 30th at the Farm, Rahoon and Gort. These will make for a perfect main course for New Years Day. In addition we have given 10% off all produce.
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Have you tried our Chicken Supremes? Beautiful, tender, tasty skin on chicken breasts, with the wing bone adding flavour to the Supreme as it cooks. Chicken Supremes are a favourite with our chefs. They cook easily and look very appetizing on your plate. How do I cook them? I like to keep it simple and use
There is a myth (urban ??) that cows sleep standing up and you could push one over if you tried (seriously push over a jersey cow ! ?). Cows can rest while standing up. But they most definitely sleep lying down. Here is one of our expecting jersey mothers as snug as can be. Fast asleep.
Beef stew is a favourite of mine on these cold days. Prep it in the late morning, stick on the pot around lunch time and after a cold day outside, it’s ready to go for the evening dinner. This is how I like to cook it. Chop an onion. Fry it off with a little
Our eggs come in many colours, brown, white and even green. We like to spice things up in our egg boxes. The brown hen egg is the standard egg sold in Ireland & the UK. It is laid by a red feather hen such as a Rhode Island Red. In the USA a white egg
Early this week a beautiful Jersey heifer was born on the farm. ‘Friendly Aoibheann’s mother is ‘Beechdean Dazler Ivy’. She came from the Beechdean herd in the UK late last year. She is part of our new Jersey dairy herd. Friendly Aoibheann is the first Jersey heifer born on our farm. Sometimes when you are
Animal manure is the one of the most important soil improvement resources we as farmers have. It was the number one resource in the past and it may well be again in the future. In the interim it has had competition from alternatives, but as these alternatives get more expensive and shorter in supply manure
This weekend our farm was covered in a blanket of snow. While it does increase the work load a tad, it certainly adds a little bit of magic to the place. Penny keeps an eye on our sheep and lambs as we give them some supplementary feed during the cold snap. Penny has been with
How do you shoe a Donkey? The fact is, in the main you don’t. We use two donkeys as livestock guardians with our Bronze Turkey flock in Summer & Autumn, they then move on to our sheep flocks in Spring. They keep Mr fox away as they are territorial and don’t like four legged intruders.
