We sell farm fresh, delicious products that are free from pesticides, herbcides, antibiotics, hormones, and GMOs.
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Strictly Chicken: 1. No arsenic or other growth enhancers in the feed to make them grow off faster
(Our chickens grow a full 10+ weeks.) 2. No genetically modified grain and no soy (Our feed is pure grain, grown by dedicated farmers and shipped from Hamilton, TX.) 3. No antibiotics in the grain to keep them from getting sick (Our chickens are grown in a clean, healthy environment and don’t need medicine to keep from getting sick.) 4. No soaking in chlorine in the chill tank to overcome leaking and spills from broken intestines caused by mechanical processing (Human hands are much better at this than machines.) Results? 1. Cleaner, healthier chicken 2. Chicken that tastes like chicken (No herbs or spices needed. Just enjoy the real chicken taste.)
Available fresh or frozen at the New Braunfels Farmers Market every Saturday, and fresh or frozen by appointment at the farm.
You may also call to make arrangements for a special pick-up site.
Our clean, fresh, with nothing added products include:
Broilers
Beyond Rock Cornish (This product is similar to the Rock Cornish game hen, and is
raised in a similar fashion. The main differences are in the flavor,
and we will sell them at approximately 2 pounds, which we feel will
provide plenty of meat for two people. They are packaged
individually.)
We now offer cut-up whole chicken, split breast (bone-in), leg quarters, wings, backs, hearts and livers, grill ready quarters, and feet for broth or pet food.
Our products may be purchased at the New Braunfels Farm to Market on Saturday morning and also at the farm.
New Braunfels farm to market is year-round. Purchases at the farm are by appointment.
to see the location, schedule, and information about the other vendors and their products.
Shady Falls Farm Guiding Principles:
TRANSPARENCY:Anyone is welcome to visit the farm anytime. No trade secrets, no locked doors, every corner is camera-accessible.
GRASS-BASED: Pastured livestock and poultry, moved frequently to new "salad-bars" offer landscape healing as well as nutritional superiority.
INDIVIDUALITY: Plants and animals should be provided a habitat that allows them to express their physiological distinctiveness. Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig or the chickenness of the chicken is a foundation of societal health.
COMMUNITY: We do not ship food. We should all seek food closer to home, in our foodshed, our own bioregion. This means enjoying seasonality and reacquainting ourselves with our home kitchen.
NATURE'S TEMPLATE: Mimicking natural patterns on a commercial domestic scale insures moral and ethical boundaries to human cleverness. Cows are herbivores, not omnivores: that is why we never feed them dead cows like the United States Department of Agriculture encouraged (the alleged cause of mad cows).
Quality- We believe our products are of the highest quality avaiable.We raise all of our animals and poultry as near the way they would live in a wild state as we possibly can, and still minimize our predator losses.
Diet: For our poultry and any animals that require a grain based diet, we purbhase high quality feeds from a mill in Millersburg, Ohio, that is completely natural, and contains no GMOs.
When we begin pork production they will be pastured, and fed grain from the same mill that supplies our poultry feed, Hiland Naturals.
Our broiler production utilizes the Freedom Ranger, a slower growing meat bird, that we have chosen to use after extensive testing. These birds develop well, have adequate breast meat, and are much more flavorful than the commercial breeds. These are the same breed utilized for the "Label Rouge" programs in France.
Also for our Pastured Broilers and Beyond Rock Cornish We use 8 ft. X 12 ft. X2 ft. high floorless portable pens holding about 50 birds each, to house these 5 to 12 week meat birds. Moved daily to a fresh pasture paddock, these birds receive fresh air, a fresh salad bar of grass and bugs, exercise, sunshine, and all the nongenetically modified organism (non-GMO) Amish grown grain they want. At Shady Falls Farm, we want every animal to eat as much salad (green material) as its full genetic potential will allow.
