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Perdue hatches over one million chicks per week using state-of-the-art incubators to replicate mother hen environments and ensure success. Once hatching occurs, chicks are distributed to family farmers who raise them before processing begins.
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Humanely Raised Chickens
Perdue stands out in the poultry industry by prioritizing humanely raising their chickens. No antibiotics are ever used and they have implemented an extensive protocol for raising them, including stress-free environments with shelters, ramps and other structures so their birds can move around freely and explore.
Consumers are becoming increasingly concerned with how animals used in food production are treated, which has led many companies like Whole Foods and Panera Bread to switch over to slower-growing breeds of chicken for production purposes.
Humanely raised chicken is an ideal solution for those concerned about the conditions on many poultry farms producing conventional chicken, such as Craig Watts’ farm for Perdue who allowed Compassion in World Farming to film his filthy and overcrowded conditions on his farm.
No Antibiotics Ever
Perdue Farms stands out by making good on its promise to eliminate antibiotic use for disease prevention purposes – something most companies fail to do. They take this commitment very seriously.
Since 2007, this company has been taking steps to remove antibiotics from its feed, offering an entire selection of “no antibiotics ever” chicken products, such as foodservice turkey items. They also carry various other meat options including beef and pork.
Perdue stands out by not using blood, bone or animal byproducts in its feed – unlike most poultry producers. VIA Agency created hidden camera ads showing Perdue’s feed being contrasted against what the competition uses.
Perdue partners with family farmers to produce eggs which are then hatched at their facilities and distributed to other farms to raise until ready for processing. At an annual Animal Care Summit, these family farmers discuss ways to improve their farming techniques and make the system more sustainable and healthier for chickens.
Nutritional Benefits
Driving around Salisbury, Maryland on the Eastern Shore will reveal trucks bearing Perdue Foods Inc’s name driving day and night down the roads. You will pass giant feed mills and chicken houses – making Salisbury truly a poultry town with Perdue reigning as uncontested ruler.
Perdue Foods has grown considerably since it first began operations in 1920, yet still maintains an intimate family atmosphere. Employees work with family farmers who ship eggs directly to Perdue’s facilities for hatching; then those chicks are distributed among various local mom-and-pop farms until ready for processing.
Perdue’s “Not Too Chicken to Change” tagline symbolizes their commitment to developing practices that improve the quality of chicken on American tables, such as no antibiotic use in raising its chickens’ feed and not adding animal blood, bones or animal fat into its all-vegetarian formulas. Perdue also uses natural herbs such as oregano and thyme for extra flavor and nutrition for its poultry products.
Environment Friendly
Perdue Farms has made an additional commitment to environmental stewardship beyond eliminating antibiotics from chicken feed by working with farmers as environmental stewards. Fresh Energy’s pollinator-focused solar panels and their poultry breeders using seed mixtures that support native forage and pollinators is just some examples.
Perdue has joined with Bayer on an ambitious new regenerative agriculture partnership aimed at large-scale carbon emissions reductions. This program will enroll farmers who provide corn and soybeans to Perdue with assistance for adopting more regenerative practices on their farms to lower greenhouse gas intensity intensity levels on farms they supply with these commodities.
Every year near Salisbury, Maryland, this company holds a virtual Animal Care Summit that features a panel discussion on free-range chicken and live audience Q&A. In addition, key updates were shared about animal stewardship initiatives including hatch research on farms as well as using RFID technology to monitor how often free-range birds access their paddocks and to strengthen relationships between family farmers who raise chickens and those raising chickens themselves.