Pastured Chicken and Eggs

Healthier, happier chooks and better quality eggs

(Not-so) free range

You may hear the term ‘free range chickens’ and imagine chickens happily clucking about an idyllic landscape, with plenty of space around them. 

This isn’t the reality for many free range chooks. A lot of the time, free range chickens endure similar conditions to caged chickens. They’re fed commercial chicken feed which is stored solely within their barns.

But they’re technically free-range, because said barn is left open to a fenced paddock (which none of the chooks explore… because their feeders are inside!)

Free range and caged eggs can lack nutrition

‘Free range’ and caged chickens tend to only eat commercial chicken feed. 

This means a less-balanced diet for them, and less nutrient-dense eggs for you.

Pasture-raised eggs nutrition

Pasture-raised chickens are different to free range and caged chooks.

They’re actually left in a paddock to happily run free and they eat a balanced diet, including insects.

Insects, like beetles, add nutrients like sulphur to the chooks’ diets, which leads to healthier, more nutrient dense eggs for you.

Animals helping animals

But it gets even better. When chickens, cows and sheep are all roaming around the same paddock, the soil biology gets super healthy.

Cow and sheep manure is nutrient rich, and chickens eat any worms and parasites out of the manure. So it’s a win all round.