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Welcome to our little site! Most of you who know about
Bryan Farm likely know us for our chickens. We have a small but very helpful
and loyal customer base among some of the finest restaurants, hotels and
country clubs in Houston, Texas. One of our children raises Labrador Retreivers
from our on-farm kennels housing champion bloodline sires and dames. If
horses are your thing, two of our children enjoy training and caring for
4 horses on property and do so with the intent of moving each of them
on to a good home.
Currently, our chicken production is around 2,400 birds
with approx. 1,200 in brooder on the homestead farm and another 1,200
birds on pasture at the satellite location in Hockley, Texas. Our chicken
sales are mainly to independent high-end restaurants, hotels and a few
private country clubs in and around the city of Houston, Texas. Each Saturday
from 8am to 12noon, we participate in the Bayou City Farmers Market (also
known as the Eastside Market) where sales to the general public are our
main focus. All of our chickens are processed at a privately owned (as
oppossed to a corporately owned) USDA approved processing facility just
south of Dallas, Texas. This facilty is a unique USDA approved site in
that it is family owned and operated and practices hand processing (versus
purely mechanical) to insure the highest quality. Although this requires
a weekly trek consuming appprox. 100 gallons of die sel (at $4.75/gallon
currently!) and greatly adds to the cost of the finished product, the
ability to have the chickens processed by hand and acquire USDA approval
allows us to maintain impecable standards while reaching a wider audience
within the area we serve. Some of our patrons have generously offered
Bryan Farm cost-free recovery of their spent grease for use towards producing
bio-diesel. This"next-stage" project should allow us
to subjugate our fuel costs which would, in turn, help stabilize pricing
to the market.
Our goal at the farm is simple. We want to learn, through
our daily lives, what it means to reflect the character of Jesus Christ
towards one another within our home and into the community.
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