Products raised on the Farm

At Moody Meats we offer two products, one is meat from our farm and the other is purchased meat from farms in the surrounding counties. To keep up with our high steak demand we also buy primal portions from a small family owned broker of mid-west products. The following information pertains to the products raised on our farm.

Our Beef

With all the buzz about "organic" or "natural" or "range fed" it is hard to know who to believe. Let me tell you how it is.

Our Beef is Beyond Organic

There are no added hormones, no antibiotics, no GMO grains, no wormers*, no supplements*, no Vaccines*, no feed lots*, no high stocking rates, and no animal by-products in our feed*.

*Allowed in Certified Organic Beef Production

The only items we buy off the farm to feed our animals are salt and kelp, which contains essential minerals in their natural form.

Here is a list of what we raise on the farm to feed our animals: lush pastures with high quality grasses and clovers, whole ear corn ground on the farm, oats (yes, we raise oats), and soybeans.

We raise, we transport, we slaughter, we process, we package.

Our Free-Range Chickens

Of the various meats we raise, process, and sell, our free-range chicken is the centerpiece. The birds are received on our farms only hours old from the hatchery. The spend the first few weeks of their lives in one of our brooders with their own swimming pool! After the birds "feather up" they are moved to one of our portable chicken huts where they enjoy new clover and grasses daily, along with the non-GMO feeds grown and ground on our farm.

Under the care of three generations of Moodys, the birds mature in seven to eight weeks. At that time they are loaded, by hand, into a small trailer and transported just minutes away to our state inspected processing plant in Ladoga, Indiana.

My wife Lucy and I head up the four person crew who process these birds by hand, one at a time. Aged in our coolers for 24 hours, the birds are offered in our retail cases for an additional 24 hours. Any bird not sold in that timeframe is sharp frozen at negative thirty degrees in our freezer.

 

Our Eggs

Our laying hens are a true free-range bird, scratching on new grasses daily within the protection of a movable feather net. The flock size is kept under 200 per house to avoid overcrowding and over fertilizing the ground where they graze.

The quality of eggs these birds produce is far superior to the ping pong ball "eggs" offered by grocery stores. You will see, taste, and fee the difference in your very first egg! The eggs are gathered by my father, washed by my wife, and I carefully inspect each egg for cracks or fissures before they are packed into cartons made from recycled materials.

Try a dozen. You will never go back to ping pong ball "eggs" again!

We welcome anyone to come and visit our farm. Click on the Field Dates link on the right to find out the latest date for a farm tour. We hope to see you soon!