Your chickens are processed on the farm, what does that mean?

That’s correct, we went to the time and expense to build a first-class poultry processing facility on our farm, which is licensed by the Kentucky Food Safety Branch. We did this for several reasons. Unlike cattle, sheep and pigs, there are very few local options for poultry processing. We wanted to provide a really high quality product to our customers, and this was the only real way to achieve that. Having our own facility allows us to harvest the chickens and turkeys when they are at their optimum age and weight, gives us the ability to provide high-quality air chilled product that sets Dry Branch chicken apart from the competition. Lastly, we just plain don’t like the idea of massive poultry slaughterhouses that slaughter thousands of birds every hour. We take great pride in treating every animal with respect and dignity all the way through the process of raising and harvesting, which cannot be done by commercial chicken farms.