| The beauty of living in the countryside offers the | | | | be grown on commercial basis. Since the supply |
| experience of eating organic chicken, but it is also | | | | cannot meet the demand requirements of the chicken |
| available in the cities in small quantities. Organic | | | | meat eating population, no big poultry raiser is |
| chickens usually just roam around to find food. People | | | | interested in venturing into this kind of poultry raising. |
| raising these chickens use rice, corn or any food | | | | Organic chicken vendors usually rely on groups of |
| available to feed them. They simply call the chickens in | | | | small farmers for their supply and could not at this |
| some distinct way and the chickens come racing as if | | | | point meet the growing demand of organic chicken |
| panicking for the food. They then throw the grains or | | | | consumers. |
| any food and each chicken picks as many as it can. | | | | For organic chicken consumers, eating organic chicken |
| When the regular meal is over, the chickens roam | | | | does not only provide health benefits but also better |
| around and search the ground for any available food | | | | ecosystem. Chickens raised in the open catch insects |
| which may be plants, insects, seeds, and if the area is | | | | that may be harmful to the plants, scavenge crop |
| coastal, small fish and live small shellfish. | | | | residue and help in fertilizing the soil through its organic |
| Organic chickens have high beneficial fats that lower | | | | manure. By the way, farms using chicken dung as |
| cholesterol, and higher amount of Omega-3 Fatty | | | | fertilizer do not necessarily produce organic crops. |
| Acids and Vitamin A. Their eggs taste much much | | | | Chicken dung are bought from commercial poultry |
| better than those from commercially-raised chickens | | | | farms that use chemicals and medications which are |
| which receive regular dose of antibiotics, vaccines and | | | | proven to be harmful to the human body. |
| other medications. Though it takes longer cooking time | | | | Since most suppliers of organic chicken are small |
| for the meat of most native chickens, its taste is | | | | farmers, organic chicken consumers also help build the |
| incomparable with 28-day broiler confined in | | | | rural economy and the income potential of small |
| overcrowded poultry houses where they also release | | | | farmers. Consumers also indirectly contribute to the |
| their wastes. | | | | protection and conservation of the environment |
| Native organic chickens are much smaller in size and | | | | because growing organic chicken does not produce air |
| grow much slower. While it only takes 28 days for a | | | | pollution that is common in poultry farms. There are |
| broiler to be harvested, native chicken usually needs at | | | | also no flies to spread germs and organisms that |
| least six months. That is why, native chickens cannot | | | | cause diseases to the people. |