We undertake a holistic approach to crop and livestock production.
About Us
Kerriyah Farms All management systems are integrated.
From dairy goat and rabbit farming to forage and herbs production, where milk is the primary focus and meat being secondary.
We produce wholesome artisanal products such as chevre’ (goat’s cheese), yogurt and milk (flavoured and plain) and rabbit meat. We also produce breeding stock in both rabbits and goats so that other farmers, can access quality breeding stock. Our pastures (grasses and legumes for our goats and rabbits) as well as herbs and spices (used in the infusion of our cheeses), are organically produced using rabbit urine (used as both pesticide and manure) as well the manure from the goats.
In our rabbit meat section, you have a choice between smoked and un-smoked and rabbit quarters or rabbit cuts.
Our dairy goats produce good quality milk from which we convert it to goat’s cheese in flavours such as hickory, garlic, herbs and spices as well as plain. Yogurt and milk comes in flavours such as strawberry, vanilla, beetroot and plain.
PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
Animals are reared in an intensive system using slotted floors and a deep litter system with some limited access to grazing. All forages (grasses and legumes) are grown on the farm, harvested chopped and fed daily. Water is provided via automatic waterers.
Manure is collected and removed weekly and put in compost area. Rabbit urine is collected via aluminium sheets under the cages then into a bucket and stored in 50 gallon drums. It is then mixed with water in particular ratios then used as fertilizer or as a pesticide on the crops grown. Every two months manure is placed on the beds to keep the soil healthy.
NB: No lnorganic Fertilizers are used.
FEEDS AND FEEDING
In the intensive system farm grown forages such as Napier/Elephant grass, Gliricidia and Trichantera are used along with agro byproducts and fed to the animals according to there stage of growth, bodyweight and physiological condition.
A small feedmill was acquired so rations are formulated using locally and regionally available byproducts such as rice bran, brewers grain, wheat middlings and copra/coconut meal along with limestone and minerals and vitamins mix and molasses as a binding agent.
The formulation of the rabbit feed is a bit different 70% of the formulation is forages (grass and legumes) while the next 30% is the byproducts such as brewers grain, rice bran and copra meal with added minerals and vitamins and calcium, where everything is mixed then pelleted.
