Why Pastured Poultry?

Except from my cookbook Pastured Poultry Cookbook From Butchering to Kitchen Table By Paris Byrum of Byrum Family Farm
- coming midsummer 2013

"Why Pastured Poultry?

    If you have came this far and purchased this e-book, you are heading in the right direction! Pastured chickens are the alternative, to what our family calls “GMO infested bleached meat”. Our pastured broilers are raised without antibiotics, vaccines, steroids, genetically modified feed, fecal surroundings and artificial lights. Instead, they are raised in small groups with fresh air, non-GMO feed, with sunlight and a field to have forage, as that is in their natural diet. Raising our birds on pasture, allows them to have a well rounded diet, without sitting in their fecal matter all day for 8 weeks, thus without having to inject them with antibiotics to fight with the disease and ammonia in the air.

    This is a great alternative to the industrialized poultry business, who keep their birds in a confined house of thousands, with artificial lighting, fecal air, dead birds under them, and other sickly birds surrounding them. They then, because of all the sickness, have to vaccinate and give antibiotics to the birds to keep the numbers up. Chickens in confinement like this are under a lot of stress, and if they do survive, the meat is not nearly as tasty. Store bought factory chickens are processed by machinery, which inevitably while processing, breaks their sack of fecal matter all over the birds, and processing equipment. As a result, they must bleach the chicken, literally dip them multiple times into a bleach and ammonia solution, so that the fecal bacteria does not poison the consumer.

    As a consequence of how factory chicken is raised, I know I would not want to consume this chicken. That is why we started raising our own meat birds. We know how they were grown, how they were processed, and how they were taken care of. If you raise you own birds for meat, or are purchasing pastured poultry locally, then you are on the right track, if not, I hope you are gaining knowledge through this ebook, to convince you to do so. "





Pastured Poultry Cookbook, From Butcher to Kitchen Table , 1st  Edition
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First Publication: March 2013
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