Free Range Eggs

Freeranger Eggs is a free range egg farm at Grantville in the southern Australian state of Victoria. Our hens are never locked up, they are fed a natural diet of grains with no additives - and they are not beak-trimmed. The only reason for removing the top part or even the tip of the beak is that when hens are confined in small spaces and in large numbers they often become aggressive and attack each other. On a true free range farm with plenty of space, all birds have full beaks.

Saturday, December 24, 2022

Baling finished just before Christmas

Son Bryan managed to cut, rake and bale a couple of paddocks to give us over 200 small square bales (now safely stored in the hayshed.) Some light showers threatened to delay the process but Bryan managed to finish the job after sorting out problems with the knotters on his ancient New Holland 275 baler. In the past we have used our even older NH 66 ( now retired). It's always a rush at this time of year to get finished before we hit the conditions which bring out arsonist firebugs. They are around every year, determined to enjoy lighting fires like the one at Grantville last year which came close to the farm.Authorities waited for the blaze to be big enough to attract media attention so they could bring in fire bombing planes.