A flesh house is a facility where dead farm animals are processed and stored for feeding to the foxhounds.

Mendip Farmers Hunt operates a fallen stock scheme as a separate business (Lester Fallen Stock Ltd).

Fallen Stock (dead farm animals) are either collected from local farms or delivered to the hunt kennels by the farmers themselves.

The animals are then skinned, gutted and stained, before hanging in the flesh house ready to feed whole to the hounds. Skips full of offal and other waste are then removed for disposal. If there is an on-site incinerator this waste is burned.

Dead meat smells. It attracts flies. It attracts rats and other vermin that need to be controlled. Farm and other vehicles carrying carcasses into the premises are not usually sealed and could create a bio-hazard.