Wild game such as Venison, Rabbit and Pigeon are becoming increasing popular and therefore this course is designed with that in mind. You will be shown and get hands on with the butchery of large and small game as well as fowl.

The day will be spent preparing these meats ready for the pot, you will be shown and get hands on with how to skin a deer and rabbit, and joint them up ready for roasting over a fire, you will also be shown how to pluck and prepare a pigeon.

We will take you through the whole process of field butchery and once all the meat is jointed up, we will be making burgers and kebabs from selected meats and a lot more.

Lunch will be a provided and will be Venison, Rabbit or Pigeon.

By the end of the day, you will walk away with a selection of the meats you have prepared during the day.

Over the course of the day you will learn:-

• How the skin and joint up venison
• How to skin and joint up a rabbit
• How to pluck and prepare a pigeon
• How to prepare the joints of meat ready for cooking
• How to make burgers/ kebabs and much more!
• Knife safety

Fully catered course

Cost per person £150

This course will be runs over one day starting at 09:00 and finishes at 16:00.

Dates Available:

18 May 2013 - Fully Booked

20 July 2013

7 September 2013

Also available is our Wild Food Forage or Wild Food Weekend.

"I thoroughly enjoyed the Hands on bushcraft butchery day, there are not many people who do this in the UK and I was pleased that the tuition was excellent, facilities good and plenty of hands on butchery to really master the techniques". - Andy