Pasture-raised
Non-GMO
High Quality
Unsurpassed Flavor
Whole Frozen Chickens – typically 4 to 6 lbs
$4.50 per lb.
Stress-free, happy life
Our newly hatched chicks are brooded in a temperature-controlled environment until they are about three weeks old and have grown sufficient feathers to be comfortable on the pasture.
Our chickens are raised on green grass enjoying fresh air, sunshine, and a stress-free happy life. The birds are moved daily to a new spot in the pasture allowing them access to clean, fresh grass, bugs and worms to eat. Up to 30% of their diet comes from the grass the chickens live on. We provided the remaining diet of non-GMO feed and make certain fresh water is available at all times.
Our chickens enjoy a much more diverse blend of diet than the birds raised in a crowded industrial factory. You get a better tasting, healthier meat through our approach than a factory chicken, organic or otherwise (most organic is still factory housed and never sees outside).
When chickens move around on pasture, they ingest fresh green grasses, weeds, seeds, ants, flies, moths, beetles, grasshoppers and just about anything else they can. The green grasses provide antioxidants like beta carotene and change the fatty acid profile of the chicken meat, skin, and fat (for the better!). The chickens become part of the ecosystem by eating from their surroundings, which reduces the feed required to bring them to finished weight, promoting a more sustainable agriculture.
Our chickens are processed on the farm, removing the added stress of transportation to a processor. They are cleaned, shrink-wrapped, weighed, labeled and frozen—ready for pickup
Pasture raised chickens have become popular because of the high quality and unsurpassed flavor of the birds. Not to mention the feeling of knowing these birds had a great quality of life.
An independent study funded by the USDA Sustainable Agriculture and Research Education (SARE) Program found that compared to conventionally raised chickens, pasture raised chickens had 21% less total fat, 30% less saturated fat, and 28% fewer calories. The pasture raised chickens had essentially no fat in the breast meat but had 50% more vitamin A and had significant levels of omega-3s, where conventional chickens had none.
Most domesticated poultry was raised outdoors until the 1950s when large confinement operations were begun. The vast majority of poultry is now produced in high-density factory farms.
The industrial factory farm model can produce chickens that are cheaper, but inferior in quality. The flavor is bland, the meat is often bleached and honestly….those chickens do not always have a good life!