Free range eggs fresh from the farm have a unique flavour. At freeranger eggs in Grantville, West Gippsland, just an hour and a half from Melbourne, hens range all day, enjoying fresh air and sunshine as well as wind and rain! If you have never tasted a truly fresh free range chicken egg, you are in for a treat! Not only are our eggs tastier, but many customers believe they are healthier than eggs laid by hens on factory farms, crammed into huge barns or from backyard chooks locked in muddy pens and fed pellets. The latest research shows that eggs from pasture-fed hens have more folic acid,

vitamin B12, vitamin E and carotenes than hens fed only grain or pellets. US research confirms that there may be a nutritional difference between free range and other eggs. We offer eggs with brown, white and tinted shells from various breeds of chickens like those once found on farms across Australia.
Free range eggs are as different from normal supermarket eggs as cask wine is from estate bottled wine or canned fruit compared with ripe fruit straight from the tree. And freeranger eggs are the pick of them.
Our chickens have a healthy natural diet with no meat meal or processed animal-based proteins. No antibiotics are used in their management and no additives are fed to enhance yolk colour. No pesticides or herbicides are used on the pastures where they roam. Because of our low density production system there is no reason for our hens to be de-beaked.
We provide a mash of natural grains and our chooks have all-day access to pastures where they forage for insects, grasses and seeds, the way nature intended. They are never locked up in sheds.
There are four basic components to a quality chicken egg; the management of the hens, the feed, the way eggs are handled, packed and stored and the time that passes before you purchase. We know that our eggs reign supreme in all four categories. We have strict quality control, an independent accreditation process carried out by the Free Range Farmers Association and a food safety program approved by Bass Coast Shire.  All this, combined with personal delivery, ensures a significantly higher quality product than usually found on a supermarket shelf.
Freeranger Eggs are used in top regional restaurants and feature exclusively in the restaurant kitchen at Glen Isla House on Phillip Island. Glen Isla House is a 5 Star small luxury hotel-style retreat in Cowes, offering chef-prepared cuisine, fine wines and exclusive guest accommodations. "Guests often comment on the flavour and colour of our breakfast eggs" - Ian - Chef & owner at Glen Isla House. (www.glenisla.com)

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Blue Mountain Creek Pty Ltd

Website updated January 2007