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2012 Chicken at the Blue Egg Farm

Meat Birds



Now taking reservations for 2012 Meat Chicken

Chicken will be $3.75 per pound
$5.00 deposit per chicken is required to start your meat birds which will go toward your total order at pickup time.
limit - 20 chickens per individual order.
Our first group of meat birds will be cleaned and ready to pickup in July, a second group of meatbirds may be added if there is enough interest.
Please email before signing up if you have any questions, big or small you might have answered. email


Mail in Order Form
Or Copy and Paste the form filled out in an Email and use PayPal.

For the person who would like to have several different items
Packages are now available

 

 

Meat Bird Chicks
If you would like to raise your own meat bird from a baby chick as a short summer project let me know now, I will add you to my chick list and email you when the chicks arrive here , which will be sometime in May. You can then pick your chick up at the farm.
Meat bird chicks will be $2.00 each
The chick price is for chicks a week old or less, they will cost more as they grow.
If you need help raising your meat birds for 4H or home use just ask, we have plenty of poultry experience.email

Group Orders
I am willing to work with groups, restaurants and co-ops to raise chickens separate from our individual orders.
Please email me to discuss your specific needs.email

 

If you find that you just can't participate in our CSA but would still like to help us out please consider becoming a Sustaining Member.


My meat birds are humanely raised on a natural diet that is free of anitbiotics and medications in pasture pens which are moved 2 or 3 times aday to keep the grass under them fresh. While the majority of the chickens feed comes from the mix we give them, they do consume some grass and insects also, this makes a big difference in their overall health which is reflected in their meat with higher omega 3. As the birds grow they will out grow their pasture pen and jump out on their own to range freely, it is at this time they really like to get themselve into trouble :)


Baby Chicks about 1 week old being started indoors until they can regulate their own temperature without using
the heat lamp and have grown enough feathers to protect them against the weather.
Chickens will be processed, ( cleaned and ready to cook) by me and sold whole only, sorry no pieces and parts.
But if you ask I will instruct you on how to quickly disassemble your purchased chicken into pieces for better freezing and more cooking options.
Meat birds will weigh around 3 to 5 pounds.
I am planning on only one fresh chicken day for 2012.

Members will be contacted by email when pick up day comes close, July some time is usual.
Members must pick up their chicken on the date (yet to be announced) We do not have room to freeze and hold chickens.


Restaurants, you may have custom grown broilers also, Just give me an email

Our past members have complained " you have spoiled us! we can't go back to that dreadful store bought chicken again!"


Young meat birds graduated from their pasture pens to freerange where ever they feel like
As is our practice, we only wish to raise around 100 meat chickens, plus a few extra to cover any losses through predator attack.
We limit ourselves this way so that we do not over burden our land with waste materials or have so many that we can not attend to their individual needs properly, as in commercial setups.
Ours is not the most efficient way of raising chickens, and limiting the numbers to sell would make any accountant faint, but it is less stressful and more humane for the poultry.

Sold from the Farm I can sell to individuals coming to pick up at the farm
and I am permited to deliver Chicken to restaurants and institutions for personal cooking and serving to customers.

Other Chicken Available


A mix batch of Souper Birds.
In 2012 I also plan on having different breeds of colorful roosters to raise for meat, soup and pretty feathers. Theses are not the typical meat birds.
These are the chickens your grand parents and great grand parents used to have.
While these roosters are all different with their own breed names and standards, as a group for food I will call them SOUPER BIRDS.
Souper Birds are much slower growing and less feed efficient than Broilers, taking all summer and fall to grow out compared to the relatively short 8 to 12 weeks it takes to raise the dedicated meat bird. The amount of meat is less on the souper bird, they do not have the large breast meat that you may be used to on a meat chicken. But what they do have is very flavorful making for the best chicken and dumplings.They also make a much more healthful and tasty soup from their stronger bones and thicker skin, due to the fact that they are much more active than the broiler meat bird and are permitted to live longer.
These birds will be processed throughout the summer and fall and sold whole just like the broilers.

The feathers will be sold to make fishing flys and arts & crafts feathers.


I will also sell the Souper Birds live for you to process on your own.
Prices will be based on the birds size at that time.




Meat Birds just hanging out, taking it easy, not much happening.


Did You Know?
In the reference information below All the different types of Chicken Are really all the same ?
It is all the standard meat bird, Broiler, The Cornish Rock Cross, or Cornish X for short.
It is only the different weights, ages, and sex that divide them into different classes.


Broiler / Fryer: A young chicken usually 6-8 weeks old. A broiler may be of either sex and will be tender - meated. The dressed weight of whole birds will range from 2.85 to 4.50 pounds. Broilers are sometimes referred to as fryers
Roaster: Roasters have the same general characteristics as broilers, except that their dressed weight will range from 4.75 to 7.50 pounds. Roasters are processed when they are 8-12 weeks old.
Capon: A surgically desexed male chicken. Capons are grown to the ripe old age of 16 weeks. Dressed weights range from 8-12 pounds.
Cornish Hen : The Cornish hen is a young, immature chicken, usually 5-6 weeks old, with a dressed weight of not more than 2 pounds.
Poussin: These are baby chickens, 3-4 weeks old, with a dressed weight of not more than 2 pounds.
Pullet : A young roaster Hen ( female bird), 8wks thru 1 yr, is a Pullet.
Cockeral: A young roaster rooster (male bird), 8wks thru 1 year


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