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Breeds
Home Farm has now changed to native rare breeds for all
its breeding livestock and numbers continue to rise. We will
complete this task by keeping back all the female stock to
replace modern breeds. We have crossed the Sussex Beef bull
with the Dairy Shorthorn cattle to give a good shaped animal
to add flavour to the meat and to carry the tenderness of
the Shorthorn.
Feeding
All food for the cattle is grown on the Estate; indeed,
Goodwood is the only entirely self-sustaining organic
farm in the country.
The animals are fed on a mixture of red clover,
white clover, oat whole crop and barley whole crop,
conserved as silages. The animals are also fed wheat,
oats, barley, beans, peas and lupins. All are rolled
and fed by portion, plus the silages, to make up the
animals’ rations
according to their particular needs – they have
different protein requirements according to their particular
stage of development.
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Lifestyle
In the summer, the beef cattle are grazed outside on the Downs.
In the winter, they are housed in deep litter barns, on straw.
A new beef finishing system – a deep litter barn- has been
designed and built specifically to meet the needs of the cattle.
Home to 120 beef cattle, the building is open sided with a double
vortex roof which enables air to rotate every second, thus preventing
the spread of airborne disease. The animals are checked every
day by farm staff. The cattle are treated using homeopathic remedies,
with veterinary surgeons brought in regularly to assess them
with the emphasis firmly on prevention rather than cure.
Traceability
All Goodwood livestock can be traced on every step of their
journey from field to plate. Home Farm is accountable to the
Soil Association and Trading Standards, but additionally has
its own traceability audit system in place which sees the Farm
Director, Manager, Food and Beverage Manager and Health and Safety
Manager following an animal from farm to slaughterhouse to meat
processing, to ensure that they can be completely confident that
they have full traceability on every cut of meat from the farm
to the customer.
Products
Home Farm supplies a full range of organic beef products
for private entertaining and corporate events at Goodwood
House, featuring rump and sirloin steaks, in particular. |
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Telephone: +44 (0)1243
755150; fax: +44 (0)1243 755155; email:
farm@goodwood.co.uk |
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