Childhay Manor Chicken Farm is located in Beaminster, a small town situated in West Dorset at the head of the River Brit Valley. This location is deep in the Dorset countryside and provides a tranquil and very natural environment for farming free range chickens. Farmer’s Choice has partnered with Childhay Manor Farm to provide our customers with succulent, free range chicken sourced from a hybrid strain, born and raised slowly in the Dorset countryside. These chickens are chosen specifically keeping our customers in mind, as they are a slow growing breed and are given enough time to enjoy their lives; living naturally in the outside environment that the farm provides them with. The Childhay chickens are fed only on natural and healthy feed that helps them to grow at an organic speed and means that the chicken meat tastes that much better.
Childhay Manor Farm also provides Farmer’s Choice with our delicious duck meat. The Peking X Aylesbury breed free range ducks are, just like the chickens, reared outside under totally natural settings and fed on GM-free feed to make sure they live the most natural life possible. By working closely with free range farms, such as Childhay Manor, and providing our customers with information on how our animals are raised, all our meat can be traceable. This means every meat eater can be sure of exactly where their free range food is coming from and know that the animals will have lived a good life under free range conditions. Read on to know more about the Childhay Manor chickens and ducks.
Our slow growing rustic breed gives a wonderful texture and taste.Chickens are reared until they reach about 12 weeks old. Conventional (supermarket) chickens are slaughtered at 6 weeks old. Our Chickens are fed a GM Free feed with No Growth Promoters, Hormones or Antibiotics. Free range. The animals are kept in natural free range conditions. The chickens spend their whole lives outside and have insulated arcs to sleep in.No pesticides or chemical fertilisers are used on the land.
Complete traceability to give you confidence in the food you put on your plate.
The breed used is a hybrid strain, called Hubbard 257. It is especially chosen as it is slow growing so the chickens dont get too big in the right time. The chickens are reared until they reach about 12 weeks old. Conventional (supermarket) chickens are slaughtered at 6 weeks old.
The chicks are put into insulated arcs at 1 day old, and are kept there under gas brooders, for warmth until they are about 3 weeks old. If they went outside before this, the magpies would eat them.
So at 3 weeks old they are let out and then they are big enough to freely range around the paddocks.
No artificial fertilisers, pesticides or herbicides are ever used on the land. They are fed chick crumb until they are 4 weeks old, then moved onto pellets.
This is a GM free ration, with no growth promoters, hormones or antibiotics.
The chickens are only given medication if they have an injury or an illness
Our ducks are Peking X Aylesbury. They are reared outside, again in a very natural environment. No herbicides, pesticides or artificial fertilisers. They are fed a GM free ration, specifically created for ducks.
The ducks are reared to 7 or 11 weeks, depending on the weight that the customer requires
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