Where do our Eggs come from?

Believe it or not, our eggs come from chickens, and when I say chickens I mean the little fluffy, flighty things that you see either pecking around a run or roaming wild and free.

Levi with one of his chickens called 'Blackorn'

All of 55 of our chickens are free range. So what does 'free range' mean? Well the RSPCA Assured website says this... "Free-range eggs have come from birds which, during the daytime, enjoy unlimited access to outdoor pastures. " And that's exactly what our birds have all day, free access to a two acre field full of a wide variety of grasses, and different types of trees. So there is plenty of space for them to scratch around and enjoy themselves.

Also, our chickens are so free range, that they pretty much lay their eggs in places anywhere but the egg nests!!

Take a look at these pictures for example.

We obviously let our chickens outdoors, to forage and graze on insects and the grass, (hence why the yolks are so yellow)but we also feed our chickens with egg...cellent 😉 quality food, which supports their health and improves their egg quality.

All the eggs sold out the front to you (the customers) are less than 2 days old when you get them, which means that our eggs are officially sold as EXTRA-FRESH. Now right now that may not seem so much.

But when you go to the shops you usually would pick up eggs and they say "FRESH FREE RANGE EGGS" that's fine, but do you really know how old they are?

Take a look at this, from the Fresh Eggs Daily Blog (reference at the bottom)

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"By law, an egg can be sold for up to 30 days after the date it was put in the carton. Yes, that says 'put in the carton', not laid or collected, but packaged.

And I'm told (although I can't find anything official in writing to confirm this) that a farmer has up to 30 days to package an egg after it's laid

So that means a commercially sold egg can be two months old by the time you buy it. "

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To be honest with you, I was pretty disgusted by the fact that eggs can be up-to 2 months old when you get them from the shops!😯

So, our eggs are definitely free-range, roaming amongst the fields, grazing on the grass an insects. Our chickens our so free range they cant even lay in the right places and they extremely fresh when you get them, less than 48 hours old because Levi carefully collects them from their various hiding places around the farm, all ready for you to buy them out the front in their little egg hut, all nestled in boxes, ready for you to use them from anything from cooking to eating...yum!!🐔

REFERENCES

• https://www.fresheggsdaily.blog/2016/01/how-old-is-average-supermarket-egg.html