Are you interested in our local, pasture raised eggs?
100% pastured eggs, 100% ethically raised
Our beautiful, small flock is laying at a prolific rate. We currently have 1300 healthy ladies scratching and foraging on our fresh pastures.
They are rotated behind our sheep and cattle, spreading manure and eating up all the little bugs left behind.
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Livin' the hen dream!
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PASTURE-RAISED AND FREE RANGE?
Free-Range Eggs:
In essence, free-range means hens must have ‘meaningful and regular access’ to an outdoor range during daylight hours, and be free to roam and forage outside. Australian law requires egg producers to run a maximum of 10,000 hens per hectare of land in order to be accredited as free-range (the equivalent of one hen per square metre).
However, in practice, stocking hens at 10,000 per hectare and giving them regular access to the outdoors, might not result in animals that are especially ‘free’. It is also important to note that free-range operations are often standalone buildings with openings to the same outdoor space.
Pasture-Raised Eggs:
Pastured hens are raised in paddocks and have more than just freedom from confinement, they have the freedom to behave naturally. In Victoria, to get the required permit to run a pastured egg operation, you are required to have a maximum stocking density of 1,500 per hectare. (the equivalent of one hen per 6.7 square metres)
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Along with many other things, you are also required to have mobile housing rotated at least every two weeks. Providing fresh, new and exciting areas for hens to roam freely, where they exhibit natural behaviour to dust bathe, scratch and forage, and to eat worms, grubs and insects.
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Our lovely ladies are currently stocked at a maximum of 1 hen per 32m2.
WHERE TO GET OUR EGGS
Our farm gate along the beautiful Avenue or Honour
Our small farm gate, takes both cash and card payments via QR code
It is temperature monitored and we make sure eggs don't get too hot or too cold.
Eggs are stocked at least once a day!
Come for a drive and see our lovely ladies just over the hill roaming the paddocks - 72 Avenue Road, Burrumbeet VIC 3352
Local Eateries:
​​​​Hideaway Coffee Bar - 69 Water St, Brown Hill VIC ​
The Turret - 802 Sturt St, Ballarat Central VIC
321 Cafe Learmonth - 321 High Street, Learmonth VIC ​
Maggie and Kate Cafe - Unit 4/403 Warrenheip St, Buninyong VIC ​
Cornerstone Cafe - 206 South St, Ballarat Central, VIC ​
The Green House Ballarat - 5C/20 Elizabeth St, Delacombe VIC
Kinfolk Cafe Ballarat - Shed 1/16 Concept Dr, Delacombe VIC
Local Stockists:
Campana's Cellar and Deli -301 Mair St, Ballarat Central VIC ​
APCO/ IGA Xpress Alfredton -47-99 Learmonth St, Alfredton VIC ​
Buninyong Butcher - 405 Warrenheip St, Buninyong VIC​
Ballarat Wholefoods Collective - Barkley Square, Barkly St, Ballarat East VIC
Meat N More Butcher - 25 Cuthberts Rd, Alfredton VIC 3350
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