Hormones are not added to our chicken feed or administered to commercial meat chickens grown in Grenada. Hormone supplementation is a practice that has been banned internationally for more than fifty years.

Meat chicken diets are formulated to strict nutritional standards. Our farm hires one of the best feed consultants to formulate our feeds and monitor the quality of the feed produced at our farm. This will ensure our feed conversion ratio is comparable to the international standards.

Meat chickens have very specific requirements for particular amino acids, which are the ‘building blocks’ of proteins. The amino acids lysine and methionine are also added to diets because they are generally not present in sufficient amounts in the grains and protein sources to meet the nutritional needs of the chickens. Meat chicken diets are also supplemented with additional vitamins and minerals and, where necessary, other essential amino acids to ensure that the chickens’ very precise requirements for these nutrients are met.

As the chicks grow, the composition and form of the feed is changed to match their changing nutritional needs and increasing mouth size. The ‘starter’ feed, which is in small crumbles just big enough for baby chicks to eat, is replaced with ‘grower’ feed as soon as they are large enough to eat fully formed pellets. After about 25 days, the chickens move on to a ‘finisher’ feed, and then to a ‘withdrawal’ feed just before harvest.