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Chicken Management

What kind of chicken do you raise?

We raise Cornish - cross Chickens.

How big is the pasture space the chickens are given?

Acres – raised on 60 acres with each flock having access to about 5 acres.

What do the chickens eat?

30% of the nutritional need is met in the pastures. Pastures act as a salad and provide the vitamins for the birds. Other 70% comes from supplemental feed. Supplemental feed we use wheat and rapeseed meal. No soy/corn (meaning no GMOs, no glyphosate,

Do the chickens receive any antibiotics or vaccines?

No antibiotics ever – healthy birds don’t need them. Vaccines for poultry specific disease. We don’t know of any hatchery at scale that does not use these vaccines. Super important to know that these vaccines are not related to humans and are used so