PHILIPPI -- White Oak Ridge Farm turkeys are happy turkeys, according to the farm's owners. White Oak raises turkeys, chickens, pigs and cattle and is considered a "natural farm."

"We don't feed our chickens or our turkeys or any of our animals any kind of growth hormones - any kind of antibiotics," says Megan Roy, co-owner of White Oak Ridge Farm in Philippi.

Roy says the turkeys and all of the animals at the White Oak Ridge Farm are raised in open pasture, which she says makes them healthier and happier.

Aside from raising animals, White Oak Ridge Farm is also the area's only small chicken and turkey poultry processing plant. Owners say no chemicals are used during processing, which differentiates it from most large processing plants.

"So to me, it's just all around healthier. And when I went and saw how some of the chickens and turkeys are raised in confinement and how I saw how they were processed - and in just such a mass quantity - the people working there have to wear respirators when they process them, it just can't be healthy," says Louis Roy, co-owner of White Oak Ridge Farm.

People can buy processed poultry from the farm itself, or they can bring live flocks in for processing.

"We also bring in chickens from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and we have customers who bring them in and we process them in our USDA facility and then they take them back to their state and resell them," says Megan Roy.

Roy says the farm has already received about 100 orders for Thanksgiving turkeys. She says they can be processed and frozen, or people can pick them up fresh for Thanksgiving. Either way, Roy says you're guaranteed a happy and healthy turkey, which should make for a great holiday.

White Oak Ridge Farm is celebrating its one year anniversary next Saturday. To arrange a tour of the farm and processing plant, or to order a Thanksgiving turkey you can call them at (304) 457-1085.

The farm is also processing deer for hunting season this year.