OUR POULTRY

PASTURE-RAISED & ORGANICALLY FED

Meat Chickens & Turkeys

MEAT CHICKENS

We strive to grow healthy, tasty, and humanely raised birds primarily focusing on two types of meat birds, both of which are slower-growing, more flavorful, and healthy alternatives to the commodity chickens available in grocery stores. The Freedom Ranger red feathered chickens were originally developed in France to meet consumer demand for a delicious, flavorful, and well-rounded chicken with equal amounts of white and dark meat. They are amazing as a roasted whole bird with deep chicken flavor and crisp skin.

We also grow the faster-growing Cornish-Cross types which yield larger breasts. We are constantly experimenting with new genetics in the never-ending search for the perfect chicken!

All our meat chickens arrive at our farm as baby chicks and are moved to pasture within three weeks where they enjoy munching on fresh pasture, and bugs and get plenty of fresh air. 

Our birds are grown only during the peak of the season to ensure maximum tastiness. When the weather in the northeast begins to warm in earnest, typically by late April, our birds are moved to pasture so they can live a healthy and comfortable life where they consume large amounts of growing forage. The bird’s consumption of green forage is makes our bird’s taste and texture so amazing.  

You are what you eat! Our chickens consume large amounts of forage and combined with freshly milled organic grains really does yield a delicious chicken. This philosophy limits our production capacity but also ensures our birds are always grown in a healthy environment which benefits both the birds, the pastures, and your plate! 

HOW TO PURCHASE?

Fresh chicken is available at the Farm Store 1-2x per month from late May through October (harvest schedule at top of page). They are also available most of the time, frozen, in our Farm Store located in the barn. We sell whole and 1/2 chickens, legs/thighs, backs, boneless breasts, split breast, and giblets.  All items are subject to availability.

*Frozen whole chickens are almost always available at the Farm Store, any time of year!

TURKEYS

We grow our pasture-raised turkeys outdoors right here in Lincoln. We primarily grow broad-breasted turkeys which are known for their excellent balance of white to dark meat and come to us as baby poults from Bob’s Turkey farm in Lancaster, MA.

Our turkeys free-range and live outdoors until late October alongside a Livestock Guardian Dog which keeps them safe from predators. We harvest our turkeys by October and they and are kept frozen in our freezers until Thanksgiving. Growing birds as we do, outdoors, can be tricky when the weather gets cold in November so we harvest them a bit earlier to ensure they have a good quality of life.

Turkeys can be reserved here to lock in your Thanksgiving bird!

PROCESSING

All our birds are processed at a USDA-inspected facilities in Rhode Island and New York. Each bird is hand-inspected for wholesomeness and quality and kept fresh for several days after processing then quickly frozen in our energy-efficient freezers.

WHAT WE FEED OUR BIRDS . . .

Our birds require a high-quality balanced feed ration in order to meet their maximum tastiness. We pay great attention to the quality and maintenance of our pastures to ensure the birds are consuming as much green, healthy forage as possible. In large part, their consumption of clovers and grasses plays a big role in ensuring a flavorful bird. The pastures provide anywhere from 5-25% of the total nutritional needs of our birds with the rest of their diet provided by a certified O’ grain mixture of soybeans, corn, oats, wheat, vitamins, minerals, a mix of probiotics (lactobacillus acidophilus) and grit (granite bits which aid digestion).

We have worked hard over the years to find the freshest and highest quality feed ration available in New England. To this end we work closely with family-owned Green Mountain Feeds located in Vermont.  Our feed is custom milled for us using Certified O’ grains including probiotics, flaxseed, and whole grains.   No antibiotics, hormones, animal by-products, or synthetics of any kind pass the beaks of our birds! Our feed is Certified O’ which means no GMO-grown corn or soy!