Owners Nick Ball and Jacob Sykes returned to the Ball’s family farm in Leicestershire in 2009 to start the poultry farming business after living in ‘Peck’em’, London– as a fashion designer and property developer respectively. Nick and Jacob’s keen interest in good food meant their aim was to produce something a bit different – a bird they were both happy to say was of the highest quality, of excellent flavour and succulence, and raised using compassion and farming standards comparable to Label Rouge chicken. 

Fosse Meadows has grown and now resides on a Leicestershire County Council Farm in North Kilworth next to the Grand Union Canal.  The business has grown and maintained the Total Freedom principles and very slow-grown poultry using traditional and compassionate methods, to produce the very best bird using the highest welfare running around in grassy pastures

Nick and Jacob believe their simple and traditional methods create a quality mature bird, offering strong meaty bones and meat with a rich flavour and texture second to none. Customers are delighted with the delicious results and to support the small-scale, artisan farming business – confirming “a happy bird really does tastes better!”