Organigrow

We believe that good eggs can only come from happy hens; living in conditions as close to their natural environment as possible, so that is how they live on the Organigrow farm: free to graze naturally with a lot of space and fed on natural products. Chickens raised to Non Organic standards may be subject to intensive farming techniques for both meat and eggs. Under these standards, laying hens may be so crammed as to 4 or more to a small cage in which they cannot stretch their wings and are stacked in tiers. With only wire to stand on, the birds develop sore and deformed feet, sores develop also on the chest and neck where feathers are rubbed off. These are also known as Caged Eggs.

In  Non-Organic farms, every aspect of their environment is controlled – heating, food supply, and water. The hens may be fed additives and hormones to improve egg quality and antibiotics to alleviate infection. They endure this miserable existence for a year or so, after which they are killed to be made into meat meal or pet food.

If a chicken has been fed chemical laden feed, then those chemicals concentrate in the egg – which is then eaten. You feed a chicken rubbish food full of offal, meat meal, GM cereals, and added chemicals, then the egg that you eat will contain just that. Even other free range produced eggs can contain these. We feed our hens a mix of the highest quality certified organic vegetarian grains.  While hens naturally eat insects, we believe they should not be fed meat meal, an ingredient in most poultry feed (including many organic feeds).

Our hens are pasture fed which means that our eggs contain extra goodness.