They do a corn fed one. Looks yellow.. yum.

I was struggling with that decision ;-)

It will probably contain more vitamins having to be allowed to walk around and use its brains in its life. A stimulated animal converts to a better meal.

They found the cheaper chickens that are not allowed freedom as such are noticably 'dimmer' and do not give the brain type food.
So people would (if they were aware) have to get multi vitamins.

Those ones are alive for like 39 days. Not much time to ponder

Not so long back I could get 3 for £10.00 but that is about £4.50 each now.

Years ago supermarket's in the uk picked whole chickens to have a price war over. You may vaguely remember it. It got really silly and people for once actually complained about the welfare of a £1.50 whole chicken. 3p tins of beans were a thing too lol.

I don't remember the chicken-wars (my memory is shot)

But cheap beans - oh yeah :-)

I hacked up the Free Range job and the carcass is now simmering for stock. Nothing wasted

£4.50 for a free-range whole bird is still pretty good.

Originally posted by Original Cast Recording:

£4.50 for a free-range whole bird is still pretty good.

The £4.50 was for a non Free Range bird - sadly.

I don't know anything about this particular producer but just for reference - to qualify as "free range," all it takes is opening one door of the chicken house and putting a cage around it that offers enough room for one chicken to vaguely stand "outside"

all the labeling is just marketing

Originally posted by OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle:

I don't know anything about this particular producer but just for reference - to qualify as "free range," all it takes is opening one door of the chicken house and putting a cage around it that offers enough room for one chicken to vaguely stand "outside"

all the labeling is just marketing

Yes I have read that over the years and it's the absolute same with free-range eggs. All the eggs have way to much albumen and the yolks are getting smaller and flatter. I struggle to get any decent poached eggs - and I never ever believe a word of this BS.

Just chuckin' a dime in the pond here

At stables I worked at had chickens roaming about the fields during the day.
Their eggs were smaller but the taste was multiplied stronger.

It was interesting watching them get along and the odd rivalries they had.
The Chickens werent there for food they were just there from people who were given them away and the stables with acres of fields they could just run around in.

it's £6 at Tesco for 600G of diced chicken breast, we're all living like the other half at the moment,

Originally posted by Corvus XIII:

At stables I worked at had chickens roaming about the fields during the day.
Their eggs were smaller but the taste was multiplied stronger.

It was interesting watching them get along and the odd rivalries they had.
The Chickens werent there for food they were just there from people who were given them away and the stables with acres of fields they could just run around in.

I used to have 5 chickens for the purpose of eggs and I was getting about 30 a week and they were wonderful.

The number of double yolks and 'bent out of shape' eggs was eye opening. It was so much fun until I realised my 'back yard' couldn't deal with the waste and it was so dreadful I had to let them go to a neighbour with an allotment.

I had the coming into my kitchen and leaving a disgustingly stinky dollop on my tiled floor.

They are so much fun though if you have a plot you could give to them away from the house.