Pasture Raised Chicken in Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW)
Raised on Texas pasture by farmers we know and trust.
Our chicken comes from Windy Meadows Family Farm in Campbell, Texas, where Mike and Connie Hale have spent more than two decades raising poultry on pasture and paying close attention to the birds, the land and the feed that supports them.
Our chicken comes from Windy Meadows Family Farm in Campbell, Texas, where Mike and Connie Hale have raised poultry for more than two decades.
Windy Meadows Family Farm
Pasture Raised Chicken
for Your Family
From whole chickens and breasts to thighs, wings, drumsticks and other cuts as available, the chicken below comes from Windy Meadows Family Farm in Campbell, Texas.
Mike and Connie Hale raise their birds on pasture and currently feed a soy free, corn free, non GMO ration. Availability changes with each flock and processing cycle.
More Than a Label
What Pasture Raised Chicken Means to Us
The words on the package matter. But they cannot tell us everything we want to know about the food we bring home.
When we choose a chicken farm, we want to know what life actually looks like for the birds. We want to know what they are eating, how they move across the land, how they are cared for, and who is making those decisions every day.
That is what led us to Mike and Connie Hale of Windy Meadows Family Farm in Campbell, Texas.
They have spent more than two decades raising poultry, learning that good husbandry is not simply a matter of checking the right boxes. It requires watching the birds, paying attention to the pasture, adapting to weather and seasons, and continuing to ask whether something can be done better.
Windy Meadows Family Farm
The Chicken We Bring Home to Our Own Family
These details are not simply marketing categories to us. They are part of knowing the farm behind the food.
Farm
Windy Meadows Family Farm
Farmers
Mike & Connie Hale
Location
Campbell, Texas
Raising
Pasture Raised
Feed
Soy Free · Corn Free · Non GMO
Processing
USDA Processed
How the Birds Are Raised
Pasture Raised Should Describe a Way of Farming
At Windy Meadows, pasture is part of the management of the flock rather than scenery around the farm.
The birds are raised using movable housing and infrastructure so they can be moved across pasture instead of spending their lives on the same piece of ground.
They scratch, forage and move over living ground. As the flock moves forward, previously used pasture has an opportunity to rest.
That means Mike and Connie are paying attention not only to the chickens, but to the relationship between the birds and the land beneath them.
That is the kind of agriculture we want the words pasture raised to point toward.
Know What Your Food Ate
We Think You Should Be Able to Ask
What did this animal eat?
It is a remarkably simple question, but it can be difficult to answer once food becomes separated from the farm that raised it.
We would rather not hide feed behind broad phrases or make families guess what they mean.
Windy Meadows chickens spend their lives on pasture and are also provided a carefully formulated poultry ration.
Soy:
No soy in the current meat chicken ration.
Corn:
No corn in the current meat chicken ration.
GMO ingredients:
The current meat chicken ration is non GMO.
No mystery. Just another part of knowing where your food came from and how it was raised.
Meet the Farmers
Mike & Connie Hale
Windy Meadows Family Farm began in 2001 with a simple desire to put good chicken on their own family's table.
What began as food for their own family grew into more than two decades of raising poultry for other families too.
Poultry remains at the heart of Windy Meadows today.
Over all those years, Mike and Connie have accumulated something that is difficult to capture on a package: experience.
Weather changes. Pasture changes. Feed changes. Birds behave differently from one season to another. Problems have to be noticed and solved.
That kind of knowledge comes from being there, day after day, responsible for the animals in your care.
Before It Reaches the Kitchen
Chicken Does Not Begin in the Grocery Store
By the time chicken reaches a freezer, much of its story has disappeared from view.
Before it became breasts, thighs, wings or a whole bird, there was an animal that had to be raised.
Chicks had to be cared for. Feed had to be sourced. Water had to be managed. Birds had to be moved. Pasture had to be watched. Weather and predators had to be accounted for.
And every day, someone had to show up and take responsibility for the flock.
We think remembering that makes us better stewards of the food once it reaches our own kitchen.
Our Mission
To bring the farmer back into the family’s food story.
Long before food reaches our table, there was a person behind it. Someone tending the land, caring for animals, watching the weather, making decisions, and doing work most of us will never see.
Somewhere along the way, modern food made it easy for that person to disappear.
ROCK exists to bring that connection back.
We build real relationships with independent Texas farmers and small producers so the families we serve can know more than what is written on a label. They can know where their food came from, something about the people who raised it, and carry a little of that story home with them.
Because food was never meant to end as a product. It was meant to come home, gather people, and become part of a family’s story.