Our Meat & Poultry
Packington Pork
At Packington we aim to rear pigs in a natural, stress-free environment that have the right qualities to produce excellent pork. We aim for a slightly greater fat covering which enhances the flavour while the beneficial environment helps improve flavour and taste. The RSPCA were so impressed by the environment we provide for our pigs that they accredited us with a Freedom Food certification mark.
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Bretby Lamb
The Falder Family have been farming lamb for over 100 years in the South Derbyshire hills. Martin prides himself on the traditional methods of sheep farming with all lamb being grass reared with no feed concentrates or artificial additives.
Bretby Lamb’s goal is to produce the highest quality lamb products through a combination of good genetics, quality feed and very high welfare standards.
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Givendale Free Range Beef
Givendale Prime cattle are naturally raised, with calves suckling their mothers. They're fed a natural diet, free from additives or hormones and they roam and graze in lush pastures, producing beef with high levels of Omega 3 and Vitamin E. A strict checking process ensures complete quality assurance and traceability.
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Packington Poultry
In today’s modern and hectic society, too much emphasis is on speedy results and a low cost, regardless of the impact on welfare and the environment.
That’s why we’ve returned to rearing a chicken with care, attention and the welfare of the bird coming first.
Keeping flock numbers low and providing the highest of welfare standards means our chickens are reared in a healthy and stress free environment. They are free to roam across 30 acres of traditional English pasture and woodland, giving the birds the chance to feed naturally from their surroundings.
Our chickens are fed the finest maize and omega3 enriched corn. This ensures the birds grow healthy and strong and will deliver a superb natural flavour; a flavour that has almost disappeared thanks to modern day intensively farmed chickens.
All our efforts are focussed on rearing a bird that will deliver tender and flavoursome meat. Our aim is simple: to bring back chicken like it used to taste… to bring back the best.
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Medium Rare Beef
Farmed in the Derbyshire hills, Medium Rare beef is traditionally reared to the highest of welfare standards. Skilled stockmanship, natural feed and less than 5 food miles, has resulted in extra matured beef of the finest quality, full of tenderness, flavour and succulence.
Reared on two farms in the Derbyshire Hills our produce is selected from only the very best of English beef cattle. Animal husbandry and welfare are of supreme importance as it’s our heart-felt belief that contented, docile cattle produce succulent richly flavoured tender beef.
Reared on a natural feed of grass, hay, root, cereals and always free from additives and hormones. Our herds are all located less than 5 miles away from the abattoir, reducing stress and keeping food miles to a minimum.
Medium Rare beef is extra matured in the traditional way. Hung on the bone for a minimum of 21 days, this process allows the beef to naturally develop its distinct and succulent flavour.
Game
Sourced from local Staffordshire shoots to our office, all based within the boundaries of the National Forest, our game is all hand plucked and dressed ready for your shop counters.
Products available, all by the brace, are Pheasants / Partridge and Duck.
Ridings Reserve Beef
Ridings Reserve mature English Beef is produced to consistently perform to today’s high standards. This standard is achieved through tried and trusted traditional butchery methods. Each carcass is carefully selected by weight and grade, to your own personal requirements. The result is
succulent, tender English beef, which has the texture and flavour expected from a traditionally matured English product.
All Ridings Reserve English Beef is Achilles hanged, unless otherwise instructed.
Each “bone in cut” contains confirmation of the customer’s unique specification for weight, fat class, confirmation grade, sex and traceability.
Steer & heifer beef is matured to a minimum 10-14 days prior to de-boning.
Only steer and heifer U & R grades for confirmation, 4L & 4H for fat coverage and weight of sides of beef between 165-185 kg are selected for deboning.
The beef is butchered and retail trimmed to minimise waste and maximum yield.
All our beef is traditionally butchered.
Venison
Medium Rare Venison is sourced from the Daylesford herd on the Wooton Estate in Staffordshire.
One of only ten organic herds in the country, certified by the Soil Association, the venison is farmed prime venison. Free to roam, they enjoy a full life, grazing the organic pastures of the Staffordshire countryside. Venison is very low in fat and extremely nutritious: it has twice as much iron as beef and lamb, and full of essential omega 3 fatty acids.
To ensure maximum tenderness and not too strong a flavour the animals are slaughtered at 15 months, this also enable us to offer you great consistency whenever you buy your venison.
Carcasses weigh between 40kg for the smallest hinds and 50 – 55kg for stags.
Highbury Poultry
Highbury Poultry is a small independent company in Shropshire, with over 50 years of experience in processing live poultry.
Red Tractor assured birds are available fresh in a variety of formats, being loose, string tied and tray wrapped. We can also offer a limited range of cut products including wing on Double Breast and Legs.
Straw Yard finished farm assured pigs
Farm assured pigs that are finished on straw yards in Staffordshire as opposed to our own free range system. The pigs are well reared and looked after with good fat covering and consistent finish. We believe these are the minimum standard of welfare that pigs should be reared to and a good alternative to our own Free Range Pigs.
Available as whole carcasses or bone in primal cuts.