We’ve had chooks for many years – in the heart of the city and on remote cattle properties on the Queensland/NT border – and we’ve kept them in every possible type of enclosure. Over the last few years we have had chook tractors. We’ve found this to be the best of all possible ways to keep chicken – and we’ve had them in the country and the city too.

Having made quite a few for friends who have all loved having fresh eggs, and after a bit of a nudge from my family, I’ve started making them for sale.

Here you'll find info about the chook tractors, eggs, recipes, looking after your chooks and so on.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Better eggs by a mile.

Of course the main reason to use a chook tractor is to get some great eggs.  Eggs from pastured chooks - that is chooks who eat fresh green pick and forage for bugs etc - are different in almost every way.  The colour is spectacular - bright and orange.  The whites are firm - great for poaching.  (But do let them get a bit older to boil them - boiled eggs will peel more easily the older they are.)

But best of all they are healthier - have a look at this Mother Earth News table showing the nutritional value of pastured eggs compared to conventional eggs (even conventional 'free range' eggs).

The column marked free range average is what we call pastured eggs - the conventional column includes all large scale production eggs.

So pastured eggs have less of what is bad for you - 1/3 less cholesterol and 1/4 less saturated fat.

And they have more of what is good for you - 2/3 more vitamin A, 2 times the omega-3 fatty acids, 3 time the vitamin E and 7 times the beta-carotene.

And then there's the taste!
Posted by Roger at 3:41 PM

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