It's Time to Order Chickens!

It's that time of  year. Time to get on the chicken list! We have already pretty much sold our first 150 birds. Right now we are raising a double batch that will be ready around the first week in August.  About 1/2 of them are spoken for. No order is too big or too small. If you are interested in ordering chicken, please call the farm 218-984-3235 and ask your questions. I have included some information here on the website as well.

By ordering in advance you are doing us a huge favor. When we start a batch of chickens we have to order our day old chicks about 2 weeks in advance, then feed them for 9 weeks or so, bring them to be processed and pick them up a few days later. Once we bring them home we have to have enough freezer space to hold them until customers can get them. With this long lead time we are hesitant to start a new batch until we're pretty sure the batch before them is sold. Last year we underestimated demand and ran out of chickens way too early.

As always our chickens are raised on pasture in chicken tractors. They eat a nice clean feed that contains no hormones, no antibiotics and no animal by products. They are processed under inspection at Nelson-Shine Produce in Brainerd. The Nelson family has been wonderful to work with and has never let us down. The birds are so cleanly processed and well packaged!

The average chicken is 5 pounds, and the off the farm price is $2.50 a pound for whole chickens.