Liberty Ducks (Sonoma County Poultry)
Regional single-farm operation with national direct-ship distribution; no head-count or annual volume published.
Sonoma County, CA, USA
libertyducks.com ↗verification source ↗
Quality assessment
- Scale
- Regional single-farm operation with national direct-ship distribution; no head-count or annual volume published.
- Feed & inputs
- Diet consists largely of corn and other grains (self-reported); no further ingredient detail published.
- Animal welfare
- No antibiotics or added hormones (self-reported); "minimum of intrusion" open-air rearing described; no third-party welfare certification (e.g. Certified Humane/GAP) located.
- Environmental
- Not documented.
- Transparency
- High for a producer this size — founder named, founding year given (1992), rearing method and market-age comparison explicitly published, and the same company operates two web properties (libertyducks.com retail; feedpeopleduck.com wholesale/restaurant-facing) with matching text.
Caveats
DISCOVERY (flag for corroboration lane, not upgraded here): feedpeopleduck.com/restaurant-links.html is a company-published restaurant customer list — a genuine exception to the usual pattern that producers do not name restaurant customers. It names Mister Jiu's and Izakaya Rintaro (both San Francisco, both carrying a Liberty Duck/Liberty Farm signal in our DB) among ~150 restaurants nationwide. The page carries embedded Google-redirect timestamps from ~2016-2017 and a stale spelling ('Statebird Provisions'), so treat as HISTORICAL evidence needing a freshness check before any tier upgrade, not current-relationship proof.
Sonoma County Poultry, DBA Liberty Ducks, founded 1992 by fourth-generation duck farmer Jim Reichardt. Raises a Denmark-developed Pekin duck strain to a slower ~9-week market age (vs. ~6 weeks for standard commodity ducks), on straw litter in open-air housing in Sonoma County's temperate climate; no antibiotics or added hormones; corn/grain-based diet. Ships directly to restaurants nationwide, with dedicated delivery routes to SF/East Bay and Sonoma/Napa.
Products
Pekin duck (whole and parts)
Practices
slower ~9-week growout vs. ~6-week commodity standardopen-air/straw-litter housingno antibiotics or added hormonescorn/grain dietdirect-to-restaurant distribution, no distributor named
Served at
Sources
What the quality assessment above is built on.
- libertyducks.com ↗
Founding 1992; founder Jim Reichardt; Pekin strain description; rearing practices
- feedpeopleduck.com ↗
Duplicate company-operated about page on the wholesale/restaurant-facing domain
- feedpeopleduck.com ↗
Company-published restaurant customer list naming Mister Jiu's and Izakaya Rintaro (SF) among ~150 restaurants; page appears dated ~2016-2017