About Us
HOW WE WORK
When you order Mayerfeld Market chickens, you are actually buying a pasture raised chicken from hatch to finish. Mayerfeld Market Meats will raise your chicken for you and deliver it, dressed, to your door.
YOU ARE WELCOME TO COME TO THE FARM TO VISIT WITH YOUR CHICKENS OR TO PICK UP YOUR ORDER.
PLEASE BE SURE TO ADD YOUR NAME TO OUR SUBSCRIBER LIST. WE ARE A SMALL COMPANY WITH LIMITED DOLLARS FOR ADVERTISING, SO IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN GETTING UPDATES ON SALES AND NEW PRODUCTS, WE SEND OUT OCCASSIONAL EMAILS TO CONVEY THAT INFORMATION, RATHER THAN PUTTING IT IN PRINT ADVERTISING.
WHY IS GRASS FED BETTER?
- 70% less fat than conventional chicken.
- 50% less bacteria than conventional chicken (conventional chicken includes 10% fecal matter).
- No chlorine baths for our chickens (conventional chickens get dipped up to 40 times in chlorine baths).
- Grass fed chickens are higher in protein as well as chlorophyll (a natural detoxifier) because they USE their muscles in the sunshine, eating grass and insects, outdoors. (Conventional kosher chickens are kept in small, wire mesh cages. No room to sit down or turn around.)
Good for your cells, good for your soul
Our chickens are pasture raised. They are fed fresh grass and greens with room to roam and plenty of sunshine. No antibiotics, hormones, vaccinations, fecal matter, steroids or medicated feed.
"...With more than 80% of antibiotics in the U.S. being used in agriculture and most of those for nontherapeutic purposes, we believe it only makes sense to make antiobiotic-free meat purchasing part of our antimicrobial stewardship mission. There is a growing body of evidence that links the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture to antibiotic resistence in human pathogens." Aparna Bole, MD University Hospitals 2016 Annual Report; Cleveland, OH