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People ask why we feed our chickens fruits, up to 40% of their diet, and not sell the fruits and use the proceeds to buy cheap grains like corn, since fruits, especially our certified organic fruits fetch such a high price?  Well the answer is this: We Are What Our Animals Eat, health-wise that is.  Bananas for example have an omega 6: omega 3 ratio of 1:1.  Corn is 40:1.  Chickens fed corn and other grains will have ratios of 40:1 and more.  One chicken we had tested came in at 59:1.  That's scary. And what about those chickens fed organic grains?  Well, at the risk of sounding flippant,...

Being able to perform necropsy   of dead chickens and to identify diseases is crucial for the success of a chicken farm. Delays in disease identification can lead to outbreaks resulting in high mortality and economic losses. It is absolutely necessary for detail records to be kept from Day 0 until all the chickens are sold, for each batch.    Detail records will enable us to...

So, what do we feed the chickens?  Grass of course.  We seeded over 30 varieties of grasses, legumes, and plants in the fields.  We selected them for protein, for omega 3 and for antioxidants....

What's with our claim that our chickens are "Permanent Free Range"? In some countries, free range is defined as having "access to outdoors".  So, if you have lots of little doors for the...