Category Archives: Pastured Chicken

Have We Become the Government’s Chickens?

[This was published in the May/June 2020 APPPA Grit newsletter, a trade publication of the American Pastured Poultry Producers Association, and relies on contextual understandings of pastured poultry farmers]. As processing plants close and big chicken destroys barns full of birds, CAFO chickens have been in the news a lot over the course of the […]

Debunking the Fresh Chicken Fallacy

There’s nothing wrong with frozen chicken. There, I said it. Let the lightning strike me down. In recent years, we’ve made the decision to supply all our chicken frozen, and it has been one of the best decisions we made with regard to our current production and distribution model. We realize, however, that many among […]

It’s an EGG-cellent day at Millside Farm…

Today is the day, folks! The first day we’ve put eggs into the new incubator.  Let the countdown begin… So, I’m not at all confident that they will all hatch.  Some of the eggs laid out in the nest boxes in the cold barn longer than they probably should have, but we are simply too […]

No Antibiotics in Badger Chickens

People who buy local farm-raised chicken do so for many reasons. A big reason is that most small farmers raise chickens on antibiotic free feed. There is enough suspicion and caution to be  had regarding the constant feeding of antibiotics to broiler chickens as a growth stimulant and not as a disease treatment. Here is […]

Are Your Eggs on Grass?

Pastured Eggs

Local, pasture-based egg producers often cite a Mother Earth News study to underscore their superior egg quality when compared to conventionally raised eggs. So, here is that study. Our [Mother Earth News] testing has found that, compared to official U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutrient data for commercial eggs, eggs from hens raised on pasture […]