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Between 1987 and 1998, Wellington Farms chickens were hatched,
fed and raised on farms located in Central Pennsylvania’s Amish
country by Kreamer Feed Company, now in its 65th year. KFC
provided Wellington Farms with top quality free range,
antibiotic-free (ABF), all vegetable feed ingredient diet live
broiler and roasting chickens. Wellington Farms processed and
distributed the chickens at its Mechanicsburg, PA., federally
inspected processing plant.
Beginning in 1998 and continuing through today, Wellington Farms
free range, Certified Humanely Raised and Handled, ABF
(antibiotic-free) chickens have been raised and slaughtered by
Giannone Poultry at its state-of-the-art air chilled processing
plant located in St. Cuthbert, Qc, Canada. The processed
chickens are then sent from St. Cuthbert, Qc. to Wellington
Farms’ USDA inspected, Providence, RI processing plant via
overnight refrigerated trucks where the whole chickens are then
cut into parts, de-boned, portioned, packaged and distributed
throughout the eastern half of the US.
We believe that Wellington Farms chickens are the best ones out
there and for a good reason. We’ve regularly done comparisons
with chickens produced by our competitors but have found none to
be any better than ours. Our conclusion comes as the result of
many incremental ingredients which go into the making of a
Wellington Farms chicken. Included are the specific breed
genetics of our chicken breeder flocks – we use a roaster breed
rather than a broiler breed; the high quality corn and soybeans
used to formulate our feeds; the absence of any animal or bakery
by-products used in feed formulations, and experienced,
knowledgeable chicken farmers with high quality, well managed
grow out facilities. Just as all automobiles are not alike, all
chickens are not alike; some are better than others.
Recent concerns involving Avian Influenza and a possible
mutation of the AI virus which could impact humans has mandated
some changes in how our chickens are raised. Wellington Farms
chickens are no longer given access to the outdoors where they
could come into contact with wild birds most likely to carry the
highly contagious, deadly (only to other birds) virus. Instead,
our free roaming chickens are now raised entirely indoors in
spacious barns with screened open sides which provide plenty of
natural daylight to our flocks. We don’t crowd our chickens in
the barns and provide lots of space for each chicken to freely
roam, feed and drink.
Many competitors make the same label claims as ours, but
consumers don’t serve and eat label claims. There is a
difference in chickens and reasons for those differences. We
invite you to compare Wellington Farms chickens with any others
and judge for yourself.
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