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Article: Why free range chicken costs more

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February 12, 2008
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I'd love to enlighten R Ball(letter, February 4) about free range chicken production - a lot of people are asking similar questions right now which, as a producer, we wholeheartedly welcome.

The reason free range chicken costs more than standard chicken is, quite simply, because it costs more to produce.

Our free range chicken are a slow-growing breed - the Devonshire Red - which means that they take half as long again to grow to maturity.

This means a free range farmer has a much slower turnaround than a standard poultry farmer, twice as much feed (because of the less efficient food conversion of the breed) and very similar

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