JenEhr Chickens
What Members have to Say:
"We are so grateful to have found JenEhr Family Farm. It's made a difference
in how we feel - about eating real, good food, about wanting to spend our $ locally,
about our connection to the earth and the seasons, about having to plan entire
cooking days, so we can use all the yummy food we get from you guys."
--LeAnne & Mary Beth
So, what's the big deal about buying roasting chickens from JenEhr Family Farm? Well, listen to the story.
Pasture raised poultry are different from the chickens that you buy in the store. Our chickens are raised locally by farmers you know.
We start with day-old chicks, brought home from a hatchery in Beaver Dam. After three weeks in the brooder house, they move outside to portable pens (the pens protect the birds from prairie hawks, owls and coyotes). We move the pens twice daily, giving the growing birds fresh feed, water, pasture and off their own feces. The result is chickens with better developed muscles, meat that's not thin, mushy or watery like some store-bought chickens and flavor like grandma remembers.
Besides being outside, the chickens are raised without any added hormones, chemicals or anti-biotics in their diet. Their diet consists of corn-based feed in combination with foliage and insects from the pasture. At nine weeks, the birds are loaded for a trip to a USDA-inspected processing plant where they are processed and fresh frozen for your convenience. Order chickens separately or add them to your CSA box.
4-6 pound roasting
chickens
$2.25 / pound
Logistics of Ordering:
Starting in June we'll have fresh-frozen roasting chickens for sale. Please contact us and call, fax or email with your order.Pick-up times are Thursday, 8 pm on farm.
Delivery available when 15 or more chickens delivered to one site.