Poultry

With our poultry farms we follow the same rotation model on pastures we do with cattle and sheep. We use mobile chicken coops that we rotate through the plots so chickens always have green grass available. This handling improves the quality of the productions and it is clearly displayed in the meat texture or in the eggs’ yolk colour.

Chicken

Our slow-growth chicken has access to the open air to exercise the muscles, which results in better animal health and a resistant cardio-vascular system. We work with this breed preserving their natural growth, caring for the animals, and avoiding any stress. All this ends up in healthy carcasses without excessive weight or unnecessary fat, which is what happens with fast-growing lines.

Bare neck chickens are more than just a biological curiosity. These birds are characterized by the total, or almost total, absence of feathers on the neck and head and by a significant reduction in the feather cover in the area of the breast and the inner side of the thighs. This lineage adapts better to the high temperatures in our area.

Organic farming regulation establishes it as mandatory to reach 12 weeks of life. Our chicken reaches 14 weeks, respecting its natural growth cycles.

After the Covid-19 pandemic, studies carried out by the Chicken Meat Nutrition Information Center (CINCAP), member of the World Poultry Science Association, have reinforced the idea of the importance of having a healthy and balanced diet to maintain a healthy immune system. Group B vitamins play a key role in this regard. There are about eight different vitamins involved in the processes that allow obtaining energy from the nutrients that are incorporated through food. Chicken meat gives us seven of them. It provides vitamins mainly from the B complex, especially Niacin or vitamin B3, which is essential for the metabolism of fats and sugars in the body, as well as to maintain our cells healthy. Today we know that vitamin E (like all vitamins) accomplishes essential functions in the metabolism of cells. Our survival would be impossible without it. Although it remains unclear exactly what it does, we know that it has an important antioxidant role –in fact, it is the most important fat-soluble antioxidant in animal tissues–, essential for protecting the polyunsaturated fatty acids in lipids against oxidative damage.

A pasture and vegetables-based diet has demonstrated to be a greater source of Vitamin E. Rotation helps to improve the presence of this vitamin.

Capon

Dehesa El Milagro capons have been bred on 36,000 sq. yd of plum, peach and apricot trees on a unique design in Spain. It is a plantation that follows the contour lines of the land so we manage to retain and optimize the filtration of rainwater. With this ability to retain moisture, we have a vegetative cover of a pasture crop that benefits the feeding of the capons.

We invite our capons to this well-stocked garden as part of their rotation with the mobile chicken coops designed for this purpose. The capons nourish the orchard with a large amount of organic matter that is incorporated into the soil. After the humification process and subsequent mineralization of the soil, it generates nutrients in abundance for the fruit trees.

Our capon is a special animal, it is a male chicken of the bare neck lineage, that matures for at least 150 days of life. Castration gives its meat different characteristics as it makes the capon a calmer animal. This behaviour and the chemical alterations produced as a result of the castration, makes the fat presence much greater and therefore the final meat is much juicier and more palatable.

The capons have access at all times to a wide area of the park and an unbeatable diet based on green and dried plants, leaves and stems to peck. This totally natural model accompanied by fodder and corn has allowed to breed a very high quality capon. Our capons are 4.5 to 5 kg birds with tender, juicy and tasty meat, with a certain yellow colour thanks to the corn and the natural pigments of the plants and sprouts.

Laying hens

The Isa Brown hen is also commonly known as laying hen due to the high level of laying that characterizes this breed. It has its origin in Europe, specifically in France.

It can lay up to 300 eggs per year under the right conditions. The weight of these eggs is usually 63 grams on average.

Its plumage is reddish brown and short in length, its legs are light yellow and its crest is deep red. The eggshell colour is brown, but may lighten slightly to a pinkish hue depending on feeding and environmental conditions.

We currently have about 1,800 chickens. We have five mobile sheds we use to move the chickens so they always have the freshest pasture possible and that they do not deplete the land.

In winter time the sheds are not moved very much. So the chicken coops are put in the high areas and we rotate the animals with the use of nets around their coops so even in the winter season, we can guarantee that they have quality pastures.

We comply with the organic management limit of 6 hens per sq. m. The application of our commitment with the outdoors low density principle is specified in a minimum area of 4 sq. m per hen.

Chickens do not have their beaks cut off. Their life unfolds in accordance with the natural hours of light, without subjecting them to additional hours of electric light to promote laying.

Having this diet and being allowed to live in the open air makes the egg yolks to have more beta-carotene content, which not only gives them a more attractive colour but also an intense taste.

Our sheep are unique.

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