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Having researched the market and various production methods we decided that we can best achieve this by keeping total control over all aspects of the raising and processing of the birds.

Our chickens are not the normal 'Free Range' chickens that are being mass produced on large units but are a return to past times where traditional methods and home milled feed ensure a unique product.

Birds are naturally shy and if they have food and drink inside will often never venture out of the hut. To overcome this, the feeders and drinkers are outside to ensure that the birds spend as much time in the field as possible.

Another difference to most units is that our birds have 24hr access to the field. They take full advantage of this and are often out feeding on moonlit nights and in summer often sleep outside in fine weather. This activity increases the variety of food as they eat grass, insects and anything else that takes their fancy; this is the essence of a good free range chicken.  

We buy in some soya, minerals, vitamins and spices to balance the ration to our own formulation. Unlike many other free range chicken producers we do not routinely use antibiotics instead relying upon helping  the birds develop a healthy immune system.

When the birds are ready around about 12 weeks old (shed birds are killed at about 6 weeks) they are killed, plucked, dressed and wrapped on the farm. The birds are hung in the chiller for at least 3 days.

At all times stress is kept to an absolute minimum, we never hang live birds on shackles and this combined with a lack of travel to processing plants is, we believe, reflected in the end product.