“You are what you eat.”An old saying that I take to heart when growing food or raising animals.
Chickens – Egg layers
Egg layers are pastured raised on rotational grazing following the goats for parasite control.They are rotated so that the pasture stays healthy and the pasture is regenerated from the manure. They are fed a whole grain feed mix with kelp. Chickens raised on pasture are able to go about their natural instincts like scratching, flying, pecking and running . All of our livestock never receive antibiotics, growth hormones or steroids. They are fed a whole grain mix with kelp. I feed kelp because it contains more than 53 trace minerals in perfect balance with each other which leads to amazing tasting eggs. At least 40 % of their diet during the summer comes from the pasture in the form of bugs, worms, and forage like clover . During the winter they are fed clover hay to make up for the lack of pasture. Our breeds are rhode island red for our brown eggs and ameraucanas for green tinted egg shells.
Understanding Labels
Cage free: can still be housed with hundreds of thousands of other chickens with no excess outside
Free range: does not specify how long they spend outside or much space they have with limited outdoor space like a concrete pad.
Pasture raised: chickens allowed to roam freely outdoors for forage and feed

Chickens – Broilers
Broilers are raised for 10 – 12 weeks on pasture using rotational grazing.They are rotated so that the pasture stays healthy and the pasture is regenerated from their manure. They are fed a whole grain feed mix with kelp. I feed kelp because it contains more than 53 trace minerals in perfect balance with each other which leads to amazing tasting meat. All of our livestock never receive antibiotics, growth hormones or steroids. At least 30 % of their diet comes from the pasture in the form of bugs, worms, and forage like clover .
Understanding Labels
Cage free: can still be housed with hundreds of thousands of other chickens with no excess to outdoors
Free range: does not specify how long they spend outside or much space they have with limited outdoor space like a concrete pad.
Pasture raised: chickens allowed to roam freely outdoors for forage and feed
Goats
Goats are the most personal animals on the farm. They are pastured raised on rotational grazing plan.They are rotated so that the pasture stays healthy and the pasture is regenerated from the manure. Also to help with their parasites. They are fed a grain supplement along with an organic free choice mineral .All of our livestock never receive antibiotics, growth hormones or steroids.Goats need a a wide variety of browse to stay healthy so in the summer they get the pasture and field edges and in the winter when I trim the orchard they get some of the branches I cut.
Pigs
Turkeys
Turkeys are pasture raised on rotational grazing plan.They are rotated so that the pasture stays healthy and the pasture is regenerated from the manure. Also to help control parasites in the pasture . They are fed a whole grain feed mix with kelp.I feed kelp because it contains more than 53 trace minerals in perfect balance with each other which leads to amazing tasting meat. All of our livestock never receive antibiotics, growth hormones or steroids. At least 40 % of their diet comes from the pasture in the form of bugs, worms, and forage like clover which makes for some happy turkeys.