Description

Pigeon breasts ready to cook, packaged in plastic free compostable packaging. You will get at least 300g in each packet which works out to roughly 5 or 6 breasts. Frozen when packaged and good for 1 year in the freezer without suffering freezer burn.

Once opened consume within 3 days and store in the fridge.

PLEASE NOTE: While every effort was made to ensure the breasts have skin on, some may have no skin, or damaged skin due to shot damage. We have also taken care to remove the shot as much as possible, but there may be on occasion a steel shot still inside the breast. This unfortunately is part of wild game sometimes, in particular wood pigeon as the birds are small so damage is likely. 

Wood pigeon (not to be confused with feral/city pigeon) is a wonderful meat, its a dark red meat that needs searing first but can be served rare if desired. It used to be eaten with some regularity much like venison.

It may surprise you to learn that wood pigeon is culled every week, all year round in the UK. Wood Pigeons threaten crop fields such as barley, beans and spinach, so are considered a pest species. Farmers cull the birds regularly and the birds are sent to landfill. We intercept as many birds as we can to stop them from being wastefully discarded. These are birds already culled and headed for the bin, they are not shot for food or fun – so every order you make for wood pigeon stops those birds being dumped in landfill.