Whole Chicken - Ranger - Medium - avg 4.23lb

One whole Red Ranger chicken between 3.75 and 4.6 lbs. Most people have only ever eaten Cornish Cross — the broad-breasted white bird that dominates every grocery store and most farmers markets. Red Rangers are different in almost every way. They’re reddish-auburn in color, athletic in build, and genuinely active birds that spend their days ranging across pasture rather than standing at a feeder. The meat is firmer, darker, and richer — more like what chicken used to taste like. Plan to cook them a little lower and slower than you might be used to, and don’t skip the carcass for stock. The bones are incredibly dense and make a broth that’s in a different league.

Ian and Elizabeth have been raising chickens in Dundas, MN since the earliest days of TC Farm — they were among the first farmers to join, and the Red Ranger is part of why Jack started TC Farm in the first place. These birds take about 12 weeks to reach processing — nearly twice as long as most chickens you'd find anywhere. That extra time on pasture shows up in everything: the meat is noticeably darker, firmer, and more flavorful than what most people are used to. Red Rangers are genuinely active birds — they forage, they move, they behave the way chickens are supposed to behave. All that movement builds dense muscle and dense bones that make a stock unlike anything you've tasted from a grocery store bird. Raised on real green pasture and fed certified organic and transition-to-organic grain, moved regularly to fresh ground all season. No antibiotics. No shortcuts. Just a slower, better chicken.