Small holder courses
This is where your journey begins. You’ve been thinking about it for years and discussing it forever, but what you really want is some hands on experience. This might be so that you can decide once and for all if smallholding and increasing self-sufficiency is genuinely the life for you or it may be that you want specific livestock experience to decided what animals or breeds you want to keep. Join us to learn something on our beautiful smallholding nestled between the Yorkshire Dales & the Lakes.
A beginners guide to keeping goats
We keep three pedigree breeds of goat at Raynebow Farm: Royal Golden Guernsey goats, British Guernsey goats and Anglo Nubian goats. Goats are an ideal addition to a smallholding. They can produce milk for family use or the excess can even jump start a smallholding business. All of our pedigree goats have been selected because they produce milk with high percentages of butter fats and proteins which make them great for cheese and soap making. Goats also have a wonderful use for conservations grazing.
The prefix (family breeding name) for the goats we breed is Raynebow
A beginners guide to keeping sheep
Sheep have multiple purposes on a smallholding.
"When my boys (Golden guernsey goats) had their recent vet check up I asked my vet to check I was trimming their hooves correctly, he checked them and said the hooves were very good and I was doing them properly, which is said was a credit to you at Raynebow farm showing me a good technique"
Cath Barton