Chicken Race

Bosarp Chicken is the only organic chicken-farm in Sweden. They sell their chickens to a lot of stores around the country, but since there are so few chickens it's really a race to get a hold of one or two.

Organic chickens are being brought up at a slower pace, in smaller groups, and they have larger areas to live in. They are allowed to be outside when the weather permits and they are given organic food without pesticides and hormones. A happy life for a chicken and the way most of us picture it.

It's not easy to start an organic chicken-farm which may be one of the reasons there are so few of them. Apart from the above, it's hard to find the correct food that contains enough protein. On the other hand, they may grow too fast with too much protein and that does not suit the two types of chickens we have in Sweden. They get too heavy and since they live longer, their bodies might not be able to take the extra weight.


Only 1 procent of the chicken we eat is organic. Organic eggs though has 11 procent of the market and can be found in every supermarket.

As consumers we have to ask for what we want to change this. Other types of chickens might be better suited for organic breeding, and there needs to be more research done on the food and other conditions needed to breed properly.