We keep them outdoors wherever possible, rather than cooped up indoors, and we insist upon traceability with all our stock. That means we no longer buy animals for breeding, because we are entirely self-sufficient. We also refuse to use bought in and bagged artificial feeds, packed full of unnecessary proteins. Because of that they grow more slowly than animals raised by more industrial farming methods, which means we have to leave them for longer and we are happy to do so. Our lamb is slaughtered more than a month later than on the industrial farms, and our pigs three months later.