Our Chicken
Meet the Freedom Birds.
Same breed you'd find at the store. Completely different life. Here's exactly how they're raised, with nothing left out.
On pasture
New ground. Every day.
Freedom Birds are Cornish Cross broilers raised on regeneratively managed, irrigated pasture. They live in Joel Salatin–style chicken tractors: open-bottom pens that we move to fresh ground every single day.
- Fresh forage
- Clean ground
- Sunshine
- Fresh air
- Natural behavior, every day
The feed
No corn. No soy.
Pasture is the salad bar, but birds still need feed. Ours is non-GMO organic feed, mixed locally, made from five ingredients. That’s the whole list.
Sorghum
Drought-hardy grain
Milled Peas
Plant protein, not soy
Barley
Whole grain energy
Wheat
Locally grown grain
Organic Sunflower Seed Oil
Cold-milled
Our feed is organic. Our birds are not certified organic.
We’d rather tell you exactly what’s true than stretch a label.
Air-chilled
Pay for chicken, not water.
Most chicken is cooled down in a big tank of chilled water, and it soaks some of that water up. Ours is cooled with cold air instead. No chill water absorbed, so the weight you pay for is chicken.
- Firmer
- texture
- Crisper
- skin
- Cleaner
- flavor
Side by side
Freedom Ag vs. commodity chicken
No scare tactics. Just how each one is typically raised.
| Topic | Freedom Ag | Commodity Chicken |
|---|---|---|
| Where they live | Where they liveIn chicken tractors on pasture, moved to fresh ground every day | Where they liveEnclosed confinement houses |
| What they eat | What they eatNo-corn, no-soy, non-GMO organic feed, mixed locally | What they eatTypically corn and soy rations |
| Distance to processing | Distance to processingAbout 25 miles | Distance to processingOften long hauls to large regional plants |
| Chilling | ChillingAir-chilled | ChillingTypically water-bath chilled with antimicrobial washes |
| Who you support | Who you supportAn independent Idaho farm | Who you supportA few large integrators |
- Moved to fresh pasture daily
- No corn
- No soy
- Air-chilled
- Processed 25 miles from pasture
- Raised in Idaho
Don’t take our word for it. Cook one and decide.