Meat chickens

Our meat chickens fertilize our land, clear previously unused areas of the weeds and the seeds, and eat tons of bugs. We don't like bugs, but the chickens love them so all the power to our meat chickens.

These chickens arrive at the farm as day old chicks, hundreds of little yellow birdies who chirp and chirp all day long. We keep our chicks in a safe dry area, providing heat, water and feed for them from the moment they arrive at the farm. As they grow, their dominion expands until they become big enough to navigate blades of grass in the field and can be out on pasture at a few weeks old.

Chicks

All of the chicks that we order are female because we like chicken breast for dinner and the female bird's biological makeup is designed to grow bigger breasts than the male chicks. We once had a male chick, a cockerel, mixed in with our day old chicks. They one came back from our processor almost just a bag of bones with almost no meat on the carcass at all. I was scared of the cockerel because he kept posturing up at me like he was going to attack me so on the day of processing, I had my farmer neighbor get the cockerel out of there first before I stepped into the chicken tractor to collect all of the other chickens.

Can you spot the one cockerel in this photo? All of the chickens were interested to crowd one of three feeders this day.

By the time that our chickens are raised to 8-9 weeks, we send them off to the processor who returns vacuum sealed chicken to us in lots of different cuts and preferences:

Whole chicken (best bang for your buck)

Chicken breast, boneless skinless

Chicken thighs, boneless skinless

Drumsticks

Ground chicken in 1lb packages

Wings (best seller in 2025)

Carcass bones for bone broth, stock and soup

And more...

If you have any preferences that are not listed here, please let us know. We would love to talk more about your consumption patterns and how we can be a part of your chicken supply.

Chickens happily exploring in their chicken tractor, safe from predators

We will raise 3,000 chickens in 2026 to supply the needs of our farmers and our client's families throughout the year. Our plan is to keep a stock of supply in our big meat freezers on the farm to provide supply for your family for the year.

With the leftovers from meat chicken processing, we send a ton of bones to a bone broth supplier that pressure cans bone broth from our pasture raised chickens. This supplier creates bone broth that is shelf stable for a year and concentrated 3:1 with bones to water, making it highly nutritionally dense for enjoying in the winter months. Our last batch hit the shelves in December 2025 and has been thoroughly enjoyed by our farm stand clients since.

For our loyal farm stand clients, we will have a promo code for a discount on pasture raised chicken from our first fresh batch of the year. Keep an eye out!

In the mean time, ask us anything, we'd love to chat chickens.

Chirp chirp,

The Farmer @ Livingstone Farm 1860