Pastured Chickens

Pasture raised poultry is a system that involves raising birds directly on the pasture. This allows them to receive up to 20% of their feed intake from the pasture forages. We use two common methods to grow poultry out on a pasture.

The Salatin style-This was made popular buy a Virginia farmer named Joel Salatin. Basically the birds are in a portable bottomless shelter (about 10ft x 12ft) that is moved daily. The birds have room to run while still having shelter to give them shade from the sun and protect them from the rain and predators. By moving the pens the birds have access to fresh vegetation at all time.

Day Range- This method still uses shelters but they are open all the time so the birds truly are free roaming. We don’t move the pens as frequently so it is a little less labor intensive for us but we have to be very careful of predators. You will always see a guardian dog with the birds when we use this method.

 Both methods that we use give our flocks a clean, healthy environment to thrive in. Because poultry require more condensed protein than ruminants they are also fed, free choices high quality grains.

The end result is better tasting chicken, real broth in your soups and just a good wholesome meal. Care must be taken when prepareing these birds for best results we use a crock pot. 

Purchase at the farm We have fresh chicken at the farm June thru October. We offer whole roasters that average 4 to 6 lb or for a small fee we will cut them up.  We publish our butcher days in the spring and you can place your order to pick them up at the farm at that time. We will update this web page when we have any new info. 

Purchase online We currently do not offer chicken at our online store. If that is something of interest to you let us know and we may add it.

Sorry we are sold out till June 2012 check back with us in the spring, thanks for your interest!

One of our moveable pens

You can see how the poultry pens fertilize the pastures.

Some birds enjoying the sun!