
FAQs
What’s so special about Backyard Farms chickens?
At Backyard Farms, we value every step by which our chickens are grown, processed, packaged, and stored.
Our chickens are pasture-raised, free of hormones and antibiotics, vacuum sealed and fresh frozen.
Our chickens are pasture-raised, free of hormones and antibiotics, vacuum sealed and fresh frozen.
How are Backyard Farms chicken raised?
Food labels and advertising can be extremely confusing and misleading especially in providing information on how chickens are grown or raised.
At Backyard Farms, we keep it simple:
Our chickens are never given antibiotics or growth hormones, which is a common practice in commercial chicken farming and even for free-range labeled chickens.
Our chickens are grown in an all-natural environment and are given the liberty to roam freely in open space.
Our chickens enjoy healthy servings of grass, bugs, worms, and greens from our gardens. We also supplement these with fresh feeds, using only natural ingredients.
At Backyard Farms, we keep it simple:
Our chickens are never given antibiotics or growth hormones, which is a common practice in commercial chicken farming and even for free-range labeled chickens.
Our chickens are grown in an all-natural environment and are given the liberty to roam freely in open space.
Our chickens enjoy healthy servings of grass, bugs, worms, and greens from our gardens. We also supplement these with fresh feeds, using only natural ingredients.
What are the advantages of Vacuum Sealing and Fresh Freezing?
Vacuum-sealed packaging is necessary in order to prevent the entry of oxygen, which kills all the aerobic bacteria that needs oxygen to live. By killing aerobic bacteria, such as salmonella, our chickens are safer and cleaner.
By fresh freezing the product at 50 degrees below zero, several things occur.
First, any flavors of the chicken are locked in because the freezing occurs so quickly.
Second, no crystallization or freezer burn occurs, making it as good as fresh.
And lastly, the most important benefit of blast freezing is that it kills 99.47 percent of the anaerobic bacteria, such as E. coli.
As a result of this process, the product is safer and cleaner.
By fresh freezing the product at 50 degrees below zero, several things occur.
First, any flavors of the chicken are locked in because the freezing occurs so quickly.
Second, no crystallization or freezer burn occurs, making it as good as fresh.
And lastly, the most important benefit of blast freezing is that it kills 99.47 percent of the anaerobic bacteria, such as E. coli.
As a result of this process, the product is safer and cleaner.
What is the difference between Broiler/Commercial chicken, Native chicken, and Backyard Farms Chicken?
Backyard Farms requires a minimum of 60 days of feeding and raising our chickens to achieve target weight, almost 3 times longer than conventional/commercial/broiler chickens, which takes 21 days. No hormones are used to speed up their growth.
Backyard Farms uses a French breed of chickens that can withstand the outdoors, unlike the white breed used for broiler chicken, and the native breed for native chicken.
Despite these differences, Backyard Farms chickens are still as tender as broiler/commercial chickens and as tasty as native chickens. And the best part is that you can trust that they are all-natural and grown without any harmful synthetics.
Backyard Farms uses a French breed of chickens that can withstand the outdoors, unlike the white breed used for broiler chicken, and the native breed for native chicken.
Despite these differences, Backyard Farms chickens are still as tender as broiler/commercial chickens and as tasty as native chickens. And the best part is that you can trust that they are all-natural and grown without any harmful synthetics.