Partridge
The native red-legged partridge is free-roaming on the wild, open moorlands of Dartmoor. Their diet consists of sweet heather seeds and abundant insects making for a delicate and tender flesh which, when young, is pale and full of flavour. It's a small bird, so a whole one feeds one person. Our Game is harvested by folk licensed to do so and only during designated 'seasons'. For Partridge that is the 1st September – 1st February.
FAQs
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Game meat is one of the healthiest meats available, it is very low in fat and cholesterol, generally higher in protein, and very lean as wild game are able to walk and roam freely, therefore not storing much fat.
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Most game is only available during the autumn and winter, during the shooting season, this is followed by the ‘closed season’ when shooting is no longer allowed, this is essential for protecting animals when they are breeding and rearing their young. However, some game does not have a ‘closed season’, these game meats include rabbit and pigeon. At Coombe Farm Organic we freeze our game meat, making it available to you the consumer all year round.
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Typically, game meat is the flesh of land mammals or birds, that are hunted for food instead of being raised on a farm. Game meat includes, ‘small birds’ such as quail, ‘winged game’ such as woodcock, grouse or partridge, ‘ground game’ such as rabbit or hare and ‘large game’ such as venison.