Also, wanted to know if you sell your organic chicken manure. In the spring/summer I have an organic farm, Smith’s Farm in Red Lion PA. Jusr started growing veggies last year and would like to get some chicken manure to spread and compost.
Thanks for your time and sharing your stories about food in Europe.

I can personally vouch for the quality of your fryers, in both how they are raised and processed.

Four years ago and through a fluke really, our son was diagnosed with Esinophillic Esophagitis, a new condition not clinically diagnosed prior to 2000 that results in his immune system recognizing food as an invading organism and then attacking his body in response. He now has a highly restrictive diet, and is unable to eat nearly all processed foods – including meats that you might find in your local grocer or even in a health food store – due we believe to the way their meats are processed. In the case of chicken, we’ve settled on the notion that the problem is in the solutions that the chicken are immersed during freezing.

We lived in the city of Knoxville, TN then as today, and so growing our own livestock wasn’t an option, but we were fortunate to find a local butcher that specialized in high quality meats, and he happened to sell your chickens and turkeys – in fact when we talked about our son’s health issues, it was he that gave us the idea that perhaps the freezing solutions might be the problem. He explained to us the air chilling process used for your chickens, and to our surprise our son did not have any bad reaction to your meats. It was to be honest a real burden lifted from us. At that time our son had no other source of complete protien.

That butcher went out of business around the time that the economy collapsed, and the nearest source of your chicken is now around 120 miles away in Greenville, SC. Despite the fact that our son’s diet restrictions have eased a little in the past couple of years, and we’re not in the dire situation we found ourselves then – thanks so much again for how you helped us through those early days of it – we’ve not been unable to find a consistent source of local, organically raised chickens that can compare to yours in either quality or price.

I had the idea tonight to contact my local food co-op and see if they can order your chickens…we’ll see how fruitful that turns out to be. I do think that your chickens are superior in quality and processing to just about any other we’ve found. I hope someday soon you’ll again be able to supply them to the Knoxville, TN area. Thanks.

Thank you for blogging and keeping us informed, on how you take great care of you chickens in a stress free environment. I justed emailed my wife and close friend about your technics. The primary reason I had decided to responed to your blog. I have been very concerned about most americans not eating healthy foods. We have become very lazy in not doing our own research about the right foods to eat. I will stay in touch…

Thanks for the expanation on the differences. Which is more sustainable – air or water chilling? My immediate thought was air, but you need a bit of energy to move that air around. Could you email me your thoughts?