Anyone know much about this? The chickens are free to roam on grass where they eat something like 30% of calories from grass and also eat lots of bugs. They are supplemented with grains. There are only a couple sources I've found online that sell individual pieces instead of just whole chickens. Apparently the skin is actually healthy/good fat from these chickens.

One is Slanker's: http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/pastured_chicken.htm

On PerformanceMenu someone said that the difference between conventional and pastured chicken isn't as significant as conventional and grass fed beef, but is it still worthwhile? I'd probably want to try this regardless for humane reasons.

Also will grass fed RAW butter be really weird tasting in the same sense that raw milk would be?

Hey, I don't know any of the answers to your questions, but I just found a local place that does pastured chicken and they'll be selling their food next Sunday near me, so I'll check it out and buy some if they still have boneless breasts.

I'll let you know if it tastes more delicious or something.

wait, raw milk is weird tasting?

store milk in addition to being pastuerized is also deoderized and stuff.

whatever a cow eats it's milk will taste a bit like, kinda like the varieties of honey. so if a cow eats some wild onion it's milk is gonna reflect that.

actually i've never had raw milk but i just assumed

I never really grew up on butter, but I buy the grassfed stuff now, don't really notice a difference...

Well never had raw butter but have had organic, homemade/local farm made butter and it tastes amazing to me. It could be psychological but I love it.

Dunno about raw milk but I'm sure it tastes delicious. It will probably taste more "earthy" with more complex flavors and stuff. That could be weird to someone who is used to regular milk their whole life but I think it's like when you grow up and discover food beyond grilled cheese, you may enjoy the complexity of flavors and nuances.

I had some unfiltered apple cider in the French country side and you could taste grass and cow and soil. It just had that feel, like it was made straight from the land, which it was. A lot of people in my group did not like it.

azk, i think most grassfed is pasteurized, is yours?

I'd expect it to taste significantly worse than comparably priced "normal" butter.

jason worthing threw up the first time he ate real food. (raised on processed algae/human waste)

Learn how to butcher a chicken. I can't find a video that presents it like I usually do it, but here are a few entries. Also, I don't use the liver and heart much (sometimes), but the other pieces (neck and gizzard) I put in stock with the bones and carcass. I rarely butterfly or try to keep all the flesh intact.

cut into pieces:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeQ6MgqFvyo

boneless thighs and breasts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw2xA...eature=related

butterfly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-8tM...eature=related

flesh in one piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qLnmDJ927U

I suppose I should add, if you are going to cut up raw chicken, you need to have good kitchen hygiene.

i think it'd be better to just get breasts since dark meat isn't as good for us

i do kind of miss drumsticks though and pastured skin sounds pretty tasty

http://www.grasslandbeef.com/Detail.bok?no=584

that's what I buy...

Hmm ADZ, check out:

1) RAW unpasteurized butter: http://www.organicpastures.com
2) 100% grass fed pasteurized butter: http://www.grassfedtraditions.com/grass_fed_butter.htm (Anchor brand)

i'm gonna find out if (1) is grass fed. i think they live in pastures but are not 100% gf. i'm not sure which of the above options is best.

the 2nd link, the picture of hte 1lb butter that says pastureland, that is the exact butter that comes ot my house

yeah i dont know how nitty this is but the other one on that page is 100% grass fed and the pastureland isn't...they're grass fed like a minimum of 150 days/year

Jesus ****ing christ this is everything that is wrong in the world.

And by world I mean ******ed white people.

whattttttt big chickens are gonna take up way more space per lb of meat too