Whole Chicken Bundle
$150
Six whole pasture-raised chickens, 3–4 lb each, about 18–24 lb total. USDA-processed.
Shop whole chickens →Chef-owned family farm · Tobaccoville, NC
Welcome to your farm.
You found us through our ad, so here's the short version. We're Rivas Ranch, a family farm in Tobaccoville, North Carolina. I'm April, a professionally trained chef. We raise grass-fed, grass-finished beef, and when you buy a share, you buy it from us. Not a warehouse.
We believe in using the whole animal, nose to tail. That's why we also make tallow skincare from our own beef fat and dog treats from the parts most people skip. Want your beef halal processed? We offer that too. Just choose it when you order.
Free delivery to your door
Anywhere in North Carolina. We bring it frozen, straight from our farm to your freezer.
I walk you through it
I'll help you fill out your cut sheet so you get the cuts you actually cook, then show you how to cook all of it.
A real person answers
Questions about freezer space, cuts or timing? Text us at 336-747-3070.
This round: ready around Halloween, in your freezer before Thanksgiving. 5 quarters left.
Quarter: about 80–100 lb in your freezer (150–175 lb hanging weight), for 1–3 people. $9.25/lb hanging weight, usually $1,390–$1,620 total. $500 deposit holds yours.
Half: about 165–195 lb in your freezer (300–325 lb hanging weight), for 4–6 people. $8.75/lb hanging weight, usually $2,630–$2,840 total. $950 deposit. Split one with family or friends.
Halves and wholes are custom cut and can include a standing rib roast if you request it by Sunday, Oct. 18.
Halal processing is available this round. Choose it when you order.
Rivas Ranch / Your Local RancHer + Chef
Pasture-Raised Duck
Pasture to plate · Pasture-raised poultry
Chickens that got to be chickens.
Out in the grass with room to scratch and forage. Keep them whole, let us do the cutting, or plan ahead for a seasonal harvest.
Why pasture
Fresh ground every day.
Birds on pasture move, forage and get fresh ground daily. They grow slower than most store chicken, and we think you can taste it.
Two chicken bundles. Order online.
Cut Chicken Bundle
$230
Six packs of split breasts, six leg/thigh packs, two wing packs and two stock kits.
Shop cut chicken →Whole bird, or pieces.
- Split breasts
- Thighs
- Drumsticks
- Wings
- Backs & necks for stock
- Feet
Save the carcass and try our bone broth or a whole roast chicken.
Buy by the cut
Want just a pack or two?
You don't have to buy a bundle. All our meat by the cut, chicken included, is sold at Fair Share Farm, 3868 Transou Rd in Pfafftown, and at our booth at the markets we sell at. Check Delivery & Pickup for market details.
Look for our label in the freezer case.
Free Freezer Mix Planner
How much meat does your family actually need?
Our free Freezer Mix Planner is a 10-minute worksheet: tally a normal week, do the math once, and see which mix of beef, chicken, pork, lamb or goat fits your freezer.
Our NC poultry exemption, explained.
North Carolina lets a farm process healthy birds it raised itself, on its own farm, under a state poultry exemption. The exemption means there is no inspector standing at the line checking every bird the way a USDA plant works. It doesn't mean no rules and no oversight.
- We are on the state's list of approved farms. Rivas Ranch, LLC is on the NCDA&CS Poultry Exempt Firms list.
- We are inspected by the NCDA&CS Meat & Poultry Inspection Division. How the state runs poultry exemptions.
- We only process healthy birds we raised ourselves. Never birds bought in from somewhere else.
- Exempt birds can't carry the USDA or state inspection mark, so ours are labeled as exempt.
Seasonal birds.
Seasonal
Pekin duck
$30 deposit
Planned harvests: December 2026, March 2027, November 2027.
Seasonal
Turkey
$50 deposit
Planned harvest: November 2027. We'll post the ready date so you know if it lands before Thanksgiving.
Coming
Emu
Planned processing window: December 2027. Cuts and pricing still being worked out.
Deposits come off the final price, and the rest is due when the bird is ready. Online reservations open soon. Pickup and delivery details.
Know how your poultry is processed.
- Most of our poultry goes to a local, family-owned, USDA-inspected plant.
- Out-of-state orders come only from USDA-inspected processing.
- Our on-farm exemption birds are not USDA inspected, labeled separately and sold only in North Carolina.
- On-farm birds aren't automatically halal. Tell us what you need and we'll check the specific bird.
Photo credits: Chris Packard, CC BY 3.0.
Boxes and bundles
Chicken, ready for the freezer.
Pick a box, choose how you want to get it, and check out. No waiting on a processing date.
Ducks and turkeys are seasonal. Reservations for those open soon.
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Ranch-made skincare
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Something for the dog
Two Barking Dogs treats can ship with skincare, never in the frozen-meat parcel.
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