Natural Pastured Chicken

Your Healthier and Tastier Choice

We raise our pastured poultry in revolutionary moving coops adapted to our tropical climate inspired by Joel Salatin's model. The chickens are moved daily on fresh pasture and fed with our special blend of feed and fodder for a happy healthier high quality life. This method allows for direct regeneration and fertilization of our pasture, which in turn allows for more healthy forage for our livestock and increased carbon sequestering.

How we raise our chicken makes all the difference

Brooder Stage

Our chickens come to us as day-old chicks from the hatchery and they live their first 2 weeks in our brooder under a temperature controlled environment, just like it would naturally in the warmth of a broody mother hen. In our chick brooder, they are fed with grain crumble and probiotics to arm them with the right gut bacterias where they gain better immunity to pathogens and diseases.

Poulet Stage

After their brooder stage, they move on to the poulet pen where they go thru a “hardening” process. This is where they get their first exposures to the natural elements like a little sunshine, a little rain, the local ambient temperatures and weather. Here in the poulet pen, they collect little stones and grit to equip their gizzards to break down food for better digestion. They will get more probiotics to strengthen their immunity and they are fed with premium grains and fodder greens like mulberry leaves, moringa leaves, duck weed, Madre de Agua, sesbania, napier and so forth.

Pasture Stage

After the poulet stage, they go on to pasture. At our pasture, they will live out their lives in moving coops where their movement is controlled within the coop in order for the pasture to regenerate, inspired by Joel Salatin’s model of pasture raised chickens. If you know, raising chickens free range will clear all greens and plants on the field till there’s only dirt left making it unsustainable and that’s why we control where they forage to give a chance to the pasture to recover. Their coops will move to a new patch of pasture daily, giving them a new salad bar, new bedding, new bugs and worms to hunt for, they get away from yesterday’s manure and have a new place to lounge. In these moving coops, they are protected from extreme tropical weather conditions, wild predators and diseases from other avian species. Our pasture mostly consists of broad leafed forbes, legumes, wild grasses and nutritious grasses and in this pasture, they get to forage freely on all the life in it! They are supplemented with premium grains and fodder until the next process.

Fresh, Foraged Feast:

Chickens in tractors enjoy tastier, healthier diets by constantly accessing fresh greens, bugs, and seeds as the tractors are moved daily to new areas.

The mountain air and vast beauty of nature is where they are but it does come with natural predators.

Mobile Meals, Moving Fortress: Regularly moving the tractor disrupts predator patterns and makes it harder to attack the chickens.

Happy & Healthy Hens:

The mobile coop with ample space allows chickens to roam, forage freely and express natural behaviours, reducing stress and promoting good well-being.

Soil Savior:

By moving the tractor regularly, we prevent patches of land from becoming bare and unhealthy due to chicken activity.

Chicken Processing

Slaughter

Our process of slaughter follows the muslim law of slaughtering (Hukum Syarak). From the process of slaughter to packing, we focus on retaining the freshness of the bird where the core temperature of the bird is brought down to below 5°C minutes after slaughter. This process succeeds most fresh slaughters as the body temperature of the bird is immediately chilled after which is then dressed and vacuum-packed while keeping a strict eye on temperature.

When compared to buying a live chicken to be slaughtered at the local wet market, it will take time before the birds body temperature cools down to a safe temperature and by the time it comes home to your kitchen, hours might have passed before it is cooked or refrigerated. This then causes a drop in quality and can causes the meat to deteriorate.

Dressing

After the slaughter, the feathers are machine plucked and the innards are removed. They are chilled immediately to a stable an safe core temperature. After which our birds are meticulously dressed, where the pin feathers are hand plucked, the chickens cavity is cleaned thoroughly, feet and head removed and gizzard cleaned. Some birds will be cut to halves or quarters at this stage in the process. Every bird goes through a thorough process of dressing before it goes through a quick rinse of clean ice cold water then they go to packing. Throughout the whole process, the temperature of the chickens are constantly monitored.

To ensure that you get
the highest quality of chicken meat,
we ensure that our processing is done in the most humane and hygienic way possible.

Packing

All our chickens will be vacuum packed to retain freshness and to allow a longer storage period for our consumers. At packing, the oxygen in the packaging will be removed and that will allow the bird to retain its quality and flavour over the period of storage. Vacuum packaging also eliminates the risk of freezer burn to the product, giving you a better quality chicken at the end of the day. After the packing process, our birds are immediately frozen after packing before it comes to you.

Know Your Chickens

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Kampung Chickens

Kabir Breed

Kampung Chicken

There are many misconceptions in chicken. The most famous in Malaysia would be – Kampung Chickens.

Kampung Chicken is such a loose marketing term for a “healthier choice” locally. To clear the air, first things first, Kampung chicken is a BREED! There are 2 general kampung chicken breeds which are Ayam Kampung Asli (AKA) and Ayam Kampung Kacuk (AKK).

Ayam Kampung Asli (AKA) or True/Original Village Chicken (direct translation) is a hardy chicken breed that is endemic to Malaysia. They grow slowly, usually over the course of 6 months and above and is a chicken breed which produces lean meat. Due to their longer growing process, they usually produce a tougher meat texture but produce and excellent flavour. They usually weigh between 1.2 to 1.6 kilograms and are much rarer in the market as it takes a longer duration to produce. It has been deemed not commercially viable by big industrial players in the local poultry industry.

Ayam Kampung Kacuk (AKK) or Crossbreed Village Chicken (direct translation) on the other hand is a True Kampung Chicken that has been cross-bred with a fast growing coloured meat chicken (coloured meaning not the conventional white feather meat chicken). This is the most common “Kampung Chicken” we would find in the local markets. They grow very fast (6 – 8 weeks) compared to its true counterpart due to its genetics. This has been the breed that big industrial chicken farms have taken notice and a liking to due to its growth performance and its name.

Now since you already know that Kampung Chicken is a breed, do also know that not all kampung chickens are raised naturally and free to roam and forage. Kampung chicken can be kept in closed system coops like battery cages or “aircond coops”. They can also be fed with routine antibiotics and hormones to make them more commercially viable to big industrial players in the local poultry industry. If you are a regular consumer of kampung chicken, do make sure your sources are legitimate if you are paying more for a perceived healthier choice.

Premium Kabir Breed

The Kabir chicken gene pool includes a number of pure lines having specific colored and naked neck characteristics. The gene pool is unique, considered to be close to the traditional fowl from which the modern broiler chicken has been developed.

Due to its very large size. Kabir means “large” in Arabic. It has a calm personality and can be handled with ease. The Kabir Chicken is very popular and known in the Middle East and parts of Southern Europe.

It is mostly raised for meat production because of its rapid growth, good size and efficient feed conversion. The chicken is resistant to disease and can tolerate heat stress. The meat is tasty and a chef's choice bird for roasting. They can be raised in the same manner as “native chickens”.

A Kabir can lay 200 eggs per cycle and their medium sized eggs are low in cholesterol. The Kabir does natural brooding although it may be late, thus it should be encouraged to brood.

Kabir chicken has been distributed throughout the world, gaining popularity because of its exceptional characteristics. It is known as the chicken most-in-demand for backyard and small enterprise flocks.

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