Our Chickens Move Twice a Day. Most Never Move at All.

Good morning Family Cow Tribe!

The last few weeks, we've talked about how our family manages every step of the process from soil to harvest so you can eat real food with confidence. 

Of course, this level of detailed care brings a higher cost, but we offer volume savings bundles to reduce prices whenever possible.

Now today I'll show what Truly Pastured means for our chickens compared to "organic" CAFO style barns with 20,000–30,000 birds in one building and only a grass strip along the edge. 

The problem with industrial organic chickens is that very few of these birds ever go outside... let alone eat a meaningful amount of grass. If they did go out regularly, that mass of birds would turn a small grass strip into a bare dirt mess in a matter of days. 

The difference with our truly pastured chickens is that we move them to fresh grass morning and afternoon. Yup, twice each day they get a lush "salad bar" of organic grass, clover and bugs on which they delight to forage.

This isn't just a grass strip outside their building... our pasture grass is literally the floor of their hoop shelter as you can see in this photo.

Not only are the twice a day moves good for the chicken, it's also good for regenerative farm land. As our birds move onto a fresh spot of pasture, they eat grass and bugs for a few hours, fertilize the soil with their manure, then move on to let it rest and regrow for the next month or so.

Here's the Line to Remember for this week:

"The Family Cow doesn't just open a side door for a few birds to go out—they move the entire flock to fresh organic grass twice a day."

Of course, this moving adds a lot of daily chores, but it's worth it to steward the land and raise our birds with the best life possible in this beautiful cycle of regenerative farming.

These daily moves to fresh grass are key to our birds superior flavor and nutrient density. That's why we've committed to only raising our meat chickens during the pasture season of the year.

This makes spring, summer, and early fall a very busy time on the farm as we grow extra birds to freeze and supply you all with real pastured chicken throughout the winter.

Now this time of year as our freezer fills up, we are glad to offer our annual Chicken Savings Event to give you best stock-up deals of the year and help us prepare our freezer space ahead of harvesting Thanksgiving Turkeys. :)

This same regular movement to fresh pasture is how we raise all our animals—cattle, pigs, and turkeys, all get their own version of this same care. More on that in a future email when I focus on the many ways our farm is regenerative.

All the best of food and blessings!

Your farmer,

Wesley