Red Poll Meats specialises in bringing to your table the finest quality free-range, organic and rare breed meats:

Beef - Organic, Red Poll, Welsh Black
Lamb - Organic, Jacob X & Texal X
Pork - Organic, Saddleback
Cures - Beer Cure, Sweet Cure
Chicken - Organic & Free Range
Denham Venison
Organic Vegetables & Fruit

Organic Beef

We do not exclusively use the Red Poll, but also South Devon and Welsh Black. The beef animals are slow growing and are outside for most of the year. They are reared to between 24 and 30 months. The meat is then hung for between three and four weeks. This all adds up to high quality, excellent flavour, and tender meat.

Red Poll

The Red Poll, which is part of the Suffolk Trinity, is deep red and naturally hornless, and is a magnificent dual purpose breed. It is on the rare breeds list, and originates from the breeding of the Norfolk Red and the Suffolk Dun. Much of the flavour of the beef comes from the fat, which is well marbled and yellowish in colour, indicating a grass-fed animal. The meat is fine-grained and full red in colour.

South Devon

South Devon are believed to be a cross between The Devon and the Guernsey and originated from the area of Devon known as the South Hams. There are very docile. They were taken to America on the Mayflower. The meat is well marbled and therefore has excellent tenderness and flavour.

Welsh Black

The cattle graze on traditional meadows at the head waters of the River Deben in the parishes of Debenham, Ashfield and Earl Soham. The Welsh Black have excellent milking ability and are also very hardy. They are considered to be a dual-purpose breed.

Organic Lamb

Jacob X, Texal X

The Jacob is a hardy breed and have an excellent mothering ability. The ewes are crossed with a Texal ram which produces high quality meat with excellent flavour. The lambs are born in March, and not weaned until September. They are then fattened on organic grass/clover leys which are used as fertility breaks in the arable rotation.
All the sheep graze on traditional meadows at the head waters of the River Deben in the parishes of Debenham, Ashfield and Earl Soham in Suffolk.

Organic Pork

The pigs eat the best organic feeds, rooting around in rich organic soil. They live in canvas and straw huts and have plenty of space to run about.

Saddleback X Duroc

The fattening pigs are the result of crossing a Duroc boar with a Saddleback Sow. These are hardy and are well suited to the outdoor life and therefore mature slowly.

The Saddleback is best described as sheeted, meaning black with a white band over the shoulders that also extend to cover the fore legs. There is a little more fat than conventional pigs but in general, the more fat, the more flavour. When cooking this excellent meat, it must be noted that you should retain all the fat to ensure that the flavour is maintained (you need not necessarily eat the fat). The pigs (which are fed on home-grown produce) produce excellent crackling, which would be lost if the fat was trimmed.

Organic & Free Range Chicken

Day-old chicks are bought in and are raised indoors in spacious huts and let out (as soon as the weather allows) to range freely on grassland for approximately twelve weeks or until they have reached the required weight for the table. The birds have access to both grass and housing, which is littered every day with fresh straw. Each batch of chickens starts on new fresh pasture therefore avoiding a build up of pests and diseases.

The Suffolk White is a slow growing breed which allows the chickens to grow at their own pace having time to develop all their natural physiological and behavioural patterns (which are heavily suppressed in intensive systems). This ensures the highest possible quality and flavour.

Farmed Fallow Deer

The Denham Estate specialises in farming deer to the strictest ethics of compassionate and responsible animal husbandry. Deer are raised in an extensive natural, free-range and stress-free environment and grazed on meadows rich in clover, rye and timothy grasses. All supplementary feed of barley, hay, beans and apples are home grown on the estate and is guaranteed free of additives, hormones or GMO's, thus affording total traceability. The deer never travel as they are slaughtered and butchered on the Estate therefore the deer are completely stress free throughout their lives.

The Denham Estate

The Denham Estate is 1200 acres in the heart of rural Suffolk about 10 miles west of Bury St Edmunds. The estate was a pioneer member of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme and is actively ecologically and environmentally responsible. There is an abundance of wildlife including pheasants, partridges, hares, wild ducks. An area of woodland has been specially designated for the preservation and maintenance of native hardwoods and fauna.