About Foster Farms
Comfortable Conditions
Private carrier Foster Farms' poultry is neither "caged" nor "free-range."
Our chickens and turkeys are grown in large poultry barns designed to protect
the birds from environmental extremes, while allowing fresh air to constantly
circulate. The interior temperature and climate is controlled, and clean water
and feed are available at all times. Our barns are built with enough space for
the birds to move about freely. The floors are covered with absorbent bedding
materials such as rice hulls and wood shavings. To ensure excellent health and
development, we keep the birds comfortable, clean and well treated.
Antibiotics
We take strong preventative measures to ensure excellent health and development
of our chicken flocks. As such, the need for therapeutic animal antibiotics
is very limited - on average, less than one percent of our birds - and is strictly
controlled by full-time veterinarians. For birds that are treated, we observe
medically recommended withdrawal time and conduct regular tests to ensure our
flocks test negative for antibiotics before processing. Foster Farms never uses
fluoroquinolones (a class of antibiotics also used in humans) or any antibiotics
deemed medically important (that would be used in human medicine) non-therapeutically,
such as tetracycline, penicillin and/or sulfonomides.
Nutritious Feed
Our chickens and turkeys mature naturally without growth hormones or steroids.
They are fed a highly nutritious, balanced diet composed primarily of corn and
soy meal, with vitamins and minerals added. All of our feed ingredients are
approved for use by the FDA and USDA. Because we own and operate our feed mills,
the custom diet of Foster Farms' poultry always addresses the specific needs
of our particular birds, to ensure optimum health, growth and overall quality.
Natural
Foster Farms poultry is always 100% natural. It contains no artificial flavor
or flavoring, coloring, chemical preservatives or any other synthetic ingredient.
Also, our poultry is handled without any fundamental alterations or exposure
to radiation. It's all part of our effort to give you the best tasting, highest
quality products possible.