Local and Sustainable Chicken Meat
Country Lane Farms is about as local as Calgary can get to great tasting, healthy, and sustainable Chicken. Located only 20 minutes east of the city limits, Country Lane Farms is the first choice for meat for many families living in the City of Calgary and surrounding areas. Even better, one doesn’t even have to venture out of their home or community, because Country Lane Farms can come to you! With the option of home delivery or multiple locations across the city, one rarely has
to travel far to fill their freezer.
Country Lane Farms is a family run operation, and while their own chicks have flown the coop, Jerry and Nancystill have various family members and friends lurking about doing odd jobs and helping on deliveries.
The Chickens of Country Lane Farms lead the best lives that Chickens can live. Large, spacious, well ventilated rooms, fully equipped with automatic water dispensers, custom programmed lighting, and only the best quality, locally sourced feed available, including organic minerals and vitamins keeping the chickens healthy throughout their life. Healthy active chickens equal yummy lean chicken dinners. The chickens also get a little variety in scenery. When they are approximately 3 weeks old, they graduate from the nursery room, and move on to their grown up room, with clean bedding, a swing, (also known as a special scale that allows Farmer Jerry to accurately monitor their growth) and more room to run and flap their flightless wings.
Raised without Antibiotics. This means that Country Lane Farm Chickens don’t have a steady stream of antibiotics added to their daily cuisine, which is still a very common practice in the raising of poultry. Way back before Jerry had grey hair he began questioning this practice. Why take antibiotics if you aren’t sick?
That’s just silly. Jerry and Nancy were ahead of their time when they began raising their chickens without antibiotics. They got a lot of strange looks, but they thrived on it, persevered, and pioneered the way for further research into the use or non use of antibiotics in chickens. Country Lane Farms also does not use any chemicals in the birds environment.
From hatching, to your dinner plate, these Chickens are 100% Albertan. You can feel good about buying and eating these chickens, because that means you are doing your part to support the local farmer, and boost the local economy.
Written Internationally by Melissa Kamphuis Heppe, the Farmer’s Oldest Daughter
