About Us
Mulberry mill Stud is owned and run by Joy and Steve Thorpe on their smallholding in the heart of the Suffolk countryside. We have both had a life- long love of animals and the countryside, but keeping livestock had until recently been a hobby.
Then a chance hatching of a duck egg (dont ask, long story) made us change direction and turn our hobby into a small business.
We specialise in rare breed chickens, bantams being a particular favourite, but also other rare breeds that appeal to us. For a list of breeds that we do, check out the breed pages.
We have branched into turkeys, pheasant and quail as well as the chickens and ducks which we have kept for many years.
All our pure breeds are kept in pens on grass where possible to ensure the breeds remain pure, and new blood is brought in whenever required, although some breeds are so difficult to source, that this can involve many miles in the car!!!
We hatch and rear each breed every year to both replenish our own stock and establish additional breeding pens when needed. The surplus is available for sale and we try to ensure that we have stock of each breed available at some point during the year for those of you that just must have it
Hatching eggs are available for either collection or posting and these are available all through the laying season, although we will not usually sell hatching eggs after the end of September as fertility can be drastically reduced and we would prefer all of our customers to have a chance at a satisfactory hatching rate.
We have started rearing and producing chickens and turkeys for the table. These birds are kept in open straw filled barns with access to the outside. They have loads of room and plenty to keep them occupied. Like all our birds they are fed on the best quality food, with fresh greens and other treats. We rear them for at least 12 weeks and usually longer, then they are despatched at home, and hand plucked and dressed. They can be collected from us or delivery can be arranged locally.
We are Defra registered and operate in as bio secure a manner as possible.
We also rear a few pigs annually for meat (Gloucester Old Spot) and take orders for turkeys for Christmas.
Nearly forgot to mention Sally, the laziest cat in the world, whos mission in life is not to move from the kitchen worktop, so her role as ratter has been taken by our free range Turkey - Buster, who has is own facebook page) and Bronwen the Goose who do an excellent job.
We welcome visitors with an appointment, so if you want to collect some free range eggs and have a look around, please get in touch, we would be very pleased to see you.
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