Project Description
3 key stages of the Bresse poultry farming methods
Stage 1
35 days under heating system
Stage 2
4 to 5 months free range
Stage 3
15 to 30 days in fattening coop
The Bresse poultry is a pure breed named ‘’La Gauloise Blanche’’. The CSVB (Centre de Sélection de la Volaille de Bresse) based in Béchanne (Ain department) is in charge of birthcontrol and of the genetic maintenance. This laboratory protects the pure breed and avoids consanguinity.
Every year, one million Bresse poultry are farmed by more than 200 breeders.
Today, MIERAL work with 60 breeders as partners.
Blue legs, white feathers and red combe are the main signs to recognize Bresse Poultry which is the only one in the world having an AOP (Appleation d’Origine Protégée).
In 1936, a production area was defined to protect the quality of this exceptional poultry.
AOP decrees stricts rules including free range farming with a minimum of 10m2 per chicken.
Farmers must respect a maximum of 2 poultry batches per year and per plot in order to let soils regenerate.
Bresse poultry mainly eat greens, natural minerals, molluscs, insects, cereals (Corn from Bresse, wheat, buckwheat) and milk. They develop a fine, tasty and tender flesh with perfect marbling.
No GMO or antibiotics are part of its food.
Mieral select each poultry individually and manually with very strict quality criteria and always respectful of the well-being of animals.
AOP Male Bresse chicken
- Weight : 2,1kg to 3Kg - Available : Eviscerated and Oven Ready - Slaughtered at around 5 to 6 months - UBD : 14 days The Bresse chicken [...]
AOP Young female Bresse chicken ‘’Poulette’’
- Weight : 1,5kg to 1,8Kg - Available : Eviscerated and Oven Ready - Slaughtered at around 4 to 5 months - UBD : 14 days The young female is [...]
AOP Female Bresse chicken ‘’Poularde’’
- Weight : 1,8kg to 2,4Kg - Available : Eviscerated only - Slaughtered at around 5 to 6 months - UBD : 14 days The ‘’Poularde’’ is the ‘’Poulette‘s big sister’’. [...]
AOP Male Bresse chicken ‘’rolled’’
- Weight : 3kg to 3,5Kg - Available : Eviscerated rolled only - Slaughtered at around 6 months - UBD : 21 days The ‘’rolled’’ process involves wrapping and strongly sewing [...]
AOP Bresse capon ‘’rolled’
- Weight : 3kg to 5Kg - Available : Eviscerated rolled only - Slaughtered at around 9 months - UBD : 21 days The rolled capon is a male chicken that [...]
AOP Female Bresse chicken ‘’Poularde’’ ‘’rolled’’
- Weight : 2,2kg to 2,7Kg - Available : Eviscerated rolled only - Slaughtered at around 6 months - UBD : 21 days The ‘’rolled’’ process involves wrapping and strongly sewing [...]
AOP Bresse turkey cock
- Weight: around 7kg. - Sold per 1 pcs (Eviscerated only). - UBD : 21 days Bresse turkey cock is hatched in May and farmed free range for 7 [...]
AOP Bresse turkey
- Weight : 3kg to 4,5Kg - Available:Eviscerated and Oven Ready - Slaughtered at around 7 months - UBD : 21 days The Bresse turkey is ‘’the christmas queen’’. It [...]
