Joyce’s Gold Heritage Meat Chickens & Poultry Range
THE MEAT CHICKEN BRED FOR FREE RANGE AND FLAVOUR
The Joyces Gold range of poultry is owned by Heritage Poultry who have been involved in poultry farming in Australia since 1945. They specialise in not only breeding traditional Heritage breeds but also creating new strains which can be used commercially. The Joyce`s Gold Heritage meat chicken is a breed developed in Australia by the Joyce family using traditional Heritage breeds. The birds thrive on outdoor free range conditions and various climates, have a slower growth rate to commercial meat chickens and develop all parts of their body at the same rate. These attributes enable the birds to be more active and really explore and forage on free range. The birds are grown out longer than regular meat chickens and when you combine this with their free range ability you get a bird that tastes like chicken used to taste. At Heritage poultry we also hatch and raise laying strains of poultry and obviously only hens lay eggs. The cockerels from these strains usually have no value to the industry but our cockerels are raised and will be avialble to purchase around five months of age making use of a usually wasted resource. They dont have the amount of breast meat as regular meat chickens or Joyce`s Gold birds but the breast meat they do have and the large amount of leg meat has great texture due to their increased activity and traditional flavour that is ideally suited to many cuisines. Heritage Poultry has recently been granted approval for their own on farm processing facility which is vital as the lack of and closure af small abattoirs around the country makes small artisan production most often unviable. This also has many welfare advantages as the birds are not transported often long distances to the closest processor. We will also be growing out some of our other poultry lines including Pekin and Muscovy Duck, American bronze Turkeys and Free Range Goose. Our goal is to produce traditional flavoured poultry using pature raised systems, high welfare conditions and keeping Heritage breeds of poultry commercially viable.
