Bonne Femme Vegetable Farm

 Pastured Poultry & Eggs

We raise our chickens from day old chicks in our brooders until they are mature enough to take outside.

Eggers:

Our egg layers are then housed in a portable range hoop house built on skids so that we can move the chickens to a fresh pasture location when they need it, rather than have them live in a barren, dirty "chicken yard". They are protected from predators by a portable mesh fence or allowed to range free. This way, they get plenty of exercise and access to fresh grass and bugs all the time, and the pasture gets a chance to rest and re-grow after the chickens have had a chance to clean it up and work it. We supplement their diet with a customized, non-medicated, high protein poultry feed. We gather eggs several times daily and offer them to our customers as fresh as they can be. Their eggs are country-style brown.

Broiler Chickens:

Our broilers are also moved outside to portable pens when they are old enough, and we move their pens to fresh pasture daily to give them access to new grass and more bugs as well. They also are given high protein, non-medicated feed, and plenty of fresh air and exercise. We keep them in groups of 100 or less, so they are not crowded together as are "factory" chickens. This eliminates the need to debeak them to prevent them pecking or cannibalizing each other as do chickens raised in crowded cages in factory chicken houses. This also eliminates the need to heavily medicate them for a.) diseases caused by overcrowding and unhealthy, unnatural practices, and/or b.) as a method to promote rapid growth and weight gain. We promote natural growth and health through good husbandry. We process our broiler chickens right on our farm within a day or two of when our customers pick them up. These, too, are as natural and fresh as they can be. We personally hand process our chickens, taking care to keep them clean and sanitary throughout processing. Factory processing utilizes bleach baths to soak the birds in to clean them up after mechanical processing. We prefer not to eat bleached chickens and know that many of you do, too, so we keep them clean to begin with.. We offer a number of pick-up days for our customers each season, so you know the chickens you buy from us are always as fresh as can be.

Turkeys:

We raise turkeys the same way as we do egg layers.  They are completely free-ranged.  Their curiosity makes them follow human around.  If you like, come over to our farm and take a walk with turkeys.  You will love them, and they are tasty too,.

This season we will be raising Broad Breasted Whites (BBWs) for mid-season (these are the breed we've raised in the past) and a  variety of Heritage turkeys for Thanksgiving.  We will raise the BBWs for a shorter period of time to produce smaller turkeys than what we have had, and the Heritage turkeys for longer because they grow much slower.  As most of you know, we have a very limited number of turkeys, so don't wait to order AND pay your deposit if you want a turkey.  Deposit refundable at our discretion only.  

Key Benefits

• Healthy animals raised in natural manners produce healthier eggs and meat. See What's the Difference in our Pastured Chicken and what you get at the store?
• We are "customer inspected"; a much higher standard than even the USDA can offer. If you don't like it, you don't buy it. And if we wouldn't eat it ourselves, we won't sell it.
• Our eggs and chickens are guaranteed to be "as fresh as you can get them."
• Our methods are environmentally, sustainably sound and humanely practiced.
• Our animals are allowed to live well in an environment that is natural to them. We do care for them as living animals, not simply as "product".

How to order

See information below for dates and prices. You can contact us by phone at 449-6755 (leave a message) or send us an e-mail. We will be in touch as soon as possible.

Chicken
Price: $2.15 / lb. 
Weight Range: 4 - 6 lb.
Pick up Dates: 4/30-5/1, 5/14-15,5/28-29, 6/11-12, 6/25-26, n7/9-10, 7/23-24, 8/6-7, 8/20-21, 6/3-4, 9/17-18, 10/1-2, 10/15-16, 10/29-30.
Pick up Place: Our Farm. (Our Farm is located just 10 minutes from Broadway.)

Turkey  *$10 deposit required (Check only) on all turkey orders.
Pick Up Dates:7/1-2, 11/20-22.
Price: $2.25 /lb. for Broad Breasted Whites (7/1-2), $3.50 /lb. for Heritage turkeys (Thanksgiving).
Weight Range: 15 - 24 lb. for BBWs, 12 - 18 lb. for Heritage turkeys.
Pick up Place: Our Farm.

Eggs
Pick Up Dates & Place: Anytime at Our Farm. (Please call us first.)  Also available at Columbia Farmers' Market.
Price: $2.50 per dozen at Farm and Columbia Farmers' Market.

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