Twelve weeks after they arrived as wee little chicks, it was time for our Freedom Rangers to die. As my wife likes to say, be glad you’re at the top of the food chain. Processing chickens is not terribly difficult, but there are several steps involved, as well as lots of different equipment. This was […]
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We butchered our 24 Freedom Ranger chickens yesterday and when we were finished most of them looked like this. Nice, huh? We’ve got them packed away in the fridge, waiting for a chest freezer to arrive on Friday. But guess what? We sold two of them to the president of the food co-op. So maybe […]
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This is how we raise our Freedom Ranger broilers on grass. Most commercial chickens in the U.S. are a Cornish breed that has been engineered to grow big very fast. In fact, they are notorious for getting so big after just eight weeks that they can no longer walk and are prone to die […]
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