Rutland Organic Turkeys
Organic free range rare breed turkey for Christmas
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Rutland Organic Free Range Christmas Heritage Turkeys
Based in Rutland, Rutland Organics produces traditional free range organic turkeys for Christmas. Grandly referred to as Heritage turkey by some people, our organic birds are rare breed turkeys at their best.
Order your organic turkey for Christmas
Rutland Organics organic turkey brings you a taste of the past. Turkey that tastes of turkey and stays moist and succulent during cooking. Our slowly grown rare breed turkeys raised under strict organic conditions ensure your Christmas meal will be one to remember. See the price list page for ordering details. We accept orders on a first come first served basis with earlier orders receiving priority on size allocation. Please order by the end of November.
Traceability and high welfare standards
Eggs from our flock of organic breeding turkeys are hatched on the farm. Turkey chicks are reared free-range on organic pasture. We only feed non-GM organic feed including our organic cereals to our turkeys. Our Christmas organic turkeys only leave the farm oven-ready. Our turkeys are certified organic by the Soil Association.
Turkey breeding
We have a breeding flock of organic turkeys, Norfolk Black, traditional Cambridge Bronze, Bourbon Red, Slate Blue and Lavender. We produce turkey hatching eggs, turkey poults (day old and off-heat) and our organic Christmas turkeys.
The young turkeys range outside on our organic pasture during daytime from 6-8 weeks of age.
Our turkey poults are reared slowly
on a cereal-based diet
(they are born in May or June).
Traditional Rare Breed Organic Turkeys for Christmas
The variety of rare breed turkeys we keep (Norfolk Black, traditional Cambridge Bronze, Bourbon Red, Slate Blue and Lavender) enables us to produce our Christmas organic turkey in a range of sizes from 22lbs+ down to around 8lbs (10kg - 4kg approx) dressed weight. The weight of our Christmas turkeys is largely governed by breed and gender, so we are unable to guarantee a particular size will be a specific colour or gender.
Order Your Christmas Turkeys
We have very high turkey welfare standards. Our organic free range Christmas Heritage turkeys are all individually slaughtered on the farm to minimize stress, then dry plucked and finished by hand. We hang the turkeys for 2-3 weeks to develop tenderness and flavour before dressing to produce oven-ready turkeys, all sold with giblets.
Rutland Organic Heritage turkeys are sold whole, oven-ready, with giblets. We may have a limited number of organic turkey crowns.