I have Freedom Ranger Meat Chicks in the incubator right now. They should start hatching on January 12th and I have two dozen that are not-yet-spoken for.

I know that for most of us our chickens are pets and we don’t eat them. Yet we do like to eat chicken. And we don’t want to participate in the horrific living circumstances of industrial chickens. Our solution? Hatch and raise Freedom Rangers. Though they come to butchering weight slower than the monstrous Cornish Cross, they are good foragers and can enjoy their days toodling about in the pasture.

And let me tell you, once you eat your own home-raised chicken you will never go back to grocery store chicken again. The meat is yummier, the texture is better, and the bones are not a strange pink color from all the hormones and antibiotics. Plus, your dinner bird had a good quality of life on your farm.