What makes our chicken different?
Animal Welfare
We are proud to provide our chickens with a superior, low-stress lifestyle where their health and well-being come first. Our farm team ensures they always have lots of space, attentive care, and natural enrichment that allows them to thrive.
Our commitment to animal welfare extends throughout every stage. Our farms uphold rigorous standards that prioritize the health, comfort, and natural behaviors of our birds and are backed by recognized animal welfare certifications, including Certified Humane® and Global Animal Partnership (GAP). Our poultry is also processed in accordance with Halal (Zabiha) requirements, ensuring the highest standards of care, integrity, and respect from farm to table.
Healthy chickens live better lives, and produce exceptional chicken you can taste.
Raised with Higher Standards
At Greener Pastures Chicken, we're committed to raising birds with higher standards for animal welfare, nutrition, farming practices, and the environment.
Our farms use practices designed to give birds opportunity for natural behaviors, access to the outdoors and appropriate shelter, while providing the care, nutrition, and protection they need to thrive.
Organic Standards
Our practices go well beyond what's required by the USDA National Organic Program. Our chickens are fed a clean, certified organic, non-GMO diet free from synthetic pesticides, chemical fertilizers, antibiotics, added hormones, and genetically modified ingredients.
We believe that nourishing our birds with clean, high-quality feed is essential to raising healthy chickens.
Regenerative Organic Certified Poultry
At our regenerative farms, the chickens play a role in a natural cycle that connects animal health, soil health, and the surrounding ecosystem.
At our farms where mobile housing and rotational pasture practices are used, birds are moved through different areas of pasture to allow the land to recover while naturally returning nutrients to the soil.
Our regenerative story is rooted in the idea that healthy birds and healthy land can work together.
FAQs
Please read our FAQs page to find out more.
How much time do the birds spend on the pasture?
Our birds live the first 3 weeks of their lives in the brooder so they can develop their feathers to better regulate their own body temperature. As soon as they are ready, they move out to the pasture for the remainder of their lives where they can run around in the grass and forage freely.
What kind of nutrients make up the supplemental, organic feed?
Their certified organic feed can include any of the following ingredients: soy, corn, sorghum, sunflower, alfalfa, vitamins, and trace minerals.
How often are the birds moved?
They’re moved to a new section of pasture every day!
What is the major differentiator between our birds and the standard American chicken?
The active outdoor lifestyle of our birds, in tandem with our certified organic feed and certified organic pasture, leads to a happier, healthier, and tastier chicken as opposed to confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) that make up over 99% of chicken sold in the U.S. food system.
What is regenerative about your farm?
Healthy birds start with healthy soil. Microorganisms, with the help of sunshine and clean water, help break down chicken manure into vital nutrients that feed the soil biology. When the chickens move back to the re-nourished section of land, the chickens then reap the benefits by consuming the nutrient-rich grasses. Our rotational grazing system adds more organic matter to the soil and leaves healthier grassland behind over time.
What kind of animal welfare standards do you uphold?
One of our many certifications is the Certified Humane certification. We’re proud to offer our birds a superior lifestyle that is free from stress.
Do your birds receive any antibiotics or hormones?
Our birds are never raised with antibiotics or hormones.
Is your chicken gluten free?
Yes, our chicken is gluten free.
Do you feed your chickens corn or soy?
We feed USDA Certified Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified corn and soy as part of a much more diverse feedstock to our chickens to ensure their baseline nutritional needs are met. In addition to their feed, our chickens supplement their diets with native pasture grasses, bugs, and grit. We prioritize their supplemental diets by moving the birds to fresh pasture every day. Our farm and feed ingredients are never sprayed with harmful pesticides, herbicides, or desiccants like that of their conventional, "natural," and strictly "Non-GMO" counterparts.
How do we know the birds are living happy lives?
We’re proud to hold the most certifications in the industry: USDA Organic, Real Organic Project, Regenerative Organic Certified, Non-GMO Project Verified, GoTexan, and Certified Humane. These certifications require strenuous adherence to guidelines and standards that our farm team works 365 days a year to meet!