We had a wonderful day Saturday processing 218 Red Freedom Rangers! (Broiler Chickens) We just wanted to say a special thank you to Jim Cotten, Daniel Seedorf, Zac Klein, Jaime Lozano, and Nick Bramlett for lending a hand in processing all those birds. If anyone would like to volunteer to help dress chickens on June 21st, just email us and we will sign you up. We also have a few more birds for the June 21st processing for those that have not gotten in their orders yet. 

I tried to tell as many people as I could Saturday about the new Freedom Ranger but many of you did not get to hear all the details about why we have made the switch. We are so excited to be able to offer this superior bird in fact, we cooked one Sunday and it was the best chicken we have ever eaten! It certainly lived up to it's reputation as a superior breed.

The Freedom Ranger is a French bird, the Poulet Rouge. It has been bred to be a superior meat bird with great attention to flavor. We decided to make the switch last year after a taste test with one of our Cornish Crosses. The Freedom Ranger was juicer and had a wonderful flavor. The company is an excellent provider and is taking the quality issue further than any hatchery I know of. 

Starting with our second batch of chicks, the company will be supplying us with chicks whose parents have been totally raised on non-GMO feed. The difference is that in the past, as soon as we receive the day old chicks, we feed them organic feed and put them on pasture straight out of the brooders but, their parents have been raised on conventional feed. This company, however, is serious about trying to rid even the previous generation from the GMO influence. We applaud them for their extremely high standard and we hope that they will receive lots of supporters so that they will be able to afford to continue this policy. So the issue is more than flavor, even though they are the best I have tasted. They simply are the highest quality that can be raised!

One thing that all of us will have to get used to is the dark pigmentation in the fat and the lining of the skin. There are some very dark, almost black streaks that appear and this is perfectly normal. These being a red bird instead of the commercial white birds still have pigmentation in their ancestry. While this may be unsightly to us who are not used to it, it's taste is out of this world! After cooking one on Sunday, we sat down and the five of us ate every speck, including the skin and fat!! Cast your vote for this fantastic Freedom Ranger by ordering some today!

See you soon at the farm!

Daniel, Susan, & Anna

David, Tina, Willie, & Ellie