Seasonal Birds

Guild of Fine Foods – Great Taste 3 Star Winner 2019!

We are keen to inspire the cooking of capons or cockerels; The Fosse Meadows free-range and slow-grown cockerel offers juicier, bolder, more generous meat than a chicken with a rich gamey flavour – simple

Cockerel and Goose were popular choices for a Christmas Day dinner until the 16th Century when turkey was first introduced.  Our Fosse cockerels are 3kg – 5kg and are often available weekly through out the year if not fresh then we normally have some in the freezer, so ORDER NOW for a delicious treat!

These breeds are traditionally slow growing and our cockerels are grown between 112 to 125 days to maximise the flavour of the bird. Our Chicken is great and these Cockerels take it to yet another level.

As recommended in the Sunday Times…
“If you aren’t a turkey or goose fan, think about a free-range cockerel from this Leicestershire farm instead. Grown for up to 20 weeks and weighing as much as 5kg, they have deeply coloured flesh that gives even the best turkeys a run for their money.  The farm also produces fantastic French breed chickens, bronze turkeys and geese.”
LUCAS HOLLWEG, THE TIMES.

Free-Range, slow grown bronze turkeys

Our traditional strains of bronze turkeys come to us as day-old poults from the kelly’s farmgate hatcheries and are slow-reared on pesticide free grassy pastures to maturity at 6 months!

Our turkeys are grown for around twice the length of time as commercial turkeys, and therefore spend a greater amount of time free-ranging and foraging. We keep them in small flocks to promote natural behaviour and feed them on an additive-free cereal diet with plenty of oats on top for a great finish. This maturity of bird results in fat marbling through the meat and a fat layer under the skin. This means your Fosse turkey is succulent, delicious and flavoursome after cooking resulting in generous and succulent meat of exceptional flavour. Rediscover the true taste of turkey!

All birds come with a pop-up cooking timer and recipes from some of the chefs we work with to help you with the perfect roasted turkey.  The result is delicious… don’t just take our word for it!

Recommended in the GUARDIAN
“This feels very free-range…I like the brown meat, very tasty!”
ANGELA HARTNETT (FOSSE TURKEYS came 2nd in their free-range bronze turkey taste test!)

Free-Range Geese

As with Christmas cockerel, the Christmas Goose was enjoyed as a popular choice for a delicious Christmas meal up until the 16th Century, before the introduction of turkey.

For an unadulterated Saxon Christmas, goose is the thing to eat. Everything they say about the crispy skin is true!

Our birds are 6 months old and are reared on home-grown wheat and graze on lush grassy paddocks, (geese are like the cows of the bird world) Birds are wax plucked and hung before dressing.

Fosse Meadows Ltd
Stud Farm
Station Road
North Kilworth, Lutterworth
Leicestershire
LE17 6JD

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