For example, the maximum number of chickens per shed varies from 500 -1000, compared with 60, 000 – 100, 000 with conventional chickens.
Organic farmers therefore need to rent far more land to rear under free range conditions.
The animals are traditional, slow-growing varieties, not genetically manipulated to put meat on the chest, so they look good in the supermarket freezer cabinet. For each lb or kg of grain they consume, the meat they put on is less.
As a rough guide, conventional Ross Cobb chickens require around 1.8 kg of feed to put on 1kg of weight. Organic ones require over 3kg of feed to put on 1kg of weight, thus the quantity of feed required is far greater.
Conventional feed suppliers simply look for the cheapest protein source available, sometimes using fish meal – please see the end of the article at http://www.biggreenjewish.org/… for the worldwide effects that can ensue. Organic feed suppliers conform to strict standards.
Organic chickens grow for 10 – 12 weeks, so there can be 4 batches of birds per shed per year. Factory-farmed birds reach the desired weight in 38 – 42 days, so there can be 8-9 batches of birds per shed per year. So organic farms’ income-producing opportunity is half.
All Organic Kosher food products are totally free of artificial additives.
As an example, a factory-farmed chicken can cost as little as £2 per kg in the supermarket.
Our organic chickens cost more than that live
Rest assured that no animals are electrocuted: Jewish law requires that animals are conscious at point of slaughter.
All animals are :-
