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Please email us to pre-order your chickens and eggs.  We will put you on our list and contact you when available.  Thanks, Leann

Dates and products available:

February 11 - chickens, eggs, and salad mix in Jackson

February 18 - salad mix, eggs, and chickens at MS Market 
Email me to get on the waiting list.  

We have had a great response so far.  Now taking pre-orders for chickens, quail, duck eggs and chicken eggs!  The Plymouth Barred Rocks, Ameraucanas, Delawares, Dominiques and Rainbows are laying lots of large, brown eggs.  All are fed an all-plant diet free of antibiotics and free-ranging daily.

We have pullets and a few laying hens for sale.  Email or call for availability.  We are now hatching our own Ameraucanas, Barred Rocks, Dominiques,   A group of assorted pullets are ready to go!   

Please read the excerpt below from Texas Grassfed Beef - I couldn't have said it better myself.  

 
 
Pastured Chicken

Pastured Chicken

       Let's get this straight from the get go.  No one, here or anywhere else, has real 100% grass-fed chicken meat birds.  If anyone claims their meat bird chickens are "grass-fed" they are not being upfront.  At best, they can claim their chickens are "pastured."  Pastured means raised on grass but supplemented with grain-based feeds.  "Grass-fed" would mean chickens on pasture being fed nothing.
       Even though they are supplemented, pastured chickens are still in a league all their own.  "Free Range" birds are raised in huge chicken houses with doors that allow access to small outside pens that are nothing but dirt.  All of the food and water is inside the building just like Tyson birds.  Therefore "Free Range" birds are fed grain, lots of grain and virtually nothing but grain.  Therefore in terms of nutrition, they are no different than any other bird sold in the super market.
       The same can be said for organic chickens.  Chickens that are not pastured but fed organic feeds are nutritionally exactly the same as mass produced Tyson chickens.  Grain's nutritional drawbacks are identical whether the grain is organic, GMO, natural, whole grain, or milled.  For more on that see The Atomic Bomb of the American Food System.
       On the other hand, when we say "Pastured Poultry" or "Pastured Chickens" the birds were literally put on grass where they ate grass and bugs that ate grass.  Either the birds are kept in very large, grass-covered paddocks where they roam at will, or they are in small pens and the pens are moved on a daily basis to fresh grass.  Pastured birds will have grazed grass and eaten bugs (bugs that eat grass) while still being supplemented with grain.  They are not 100% grass-fed, but they are nutritionally far better than any other poultry classification.


 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

   

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