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This is the free-range layer model we intend to implement as a social enterprise with rural low-income farmers.  If they sell the eggs themselves at the Farmers’ Market, each egg should fetch rm1.00 each.  We will supply them 200 pullets that are close to laying unlike what is happening now when the poor farmers are given day-olds and in no time, disease will wipe out all the birds. At the very least, the farmers can expect an income of between rm2500 to rm3000.00 per month. We will be starting with five farmers in Pahang.

A store is no longer stocking our grassfed, free range eggs because a couple of their customers complaint about that 'wiggly thingy' found in our eggs, and that obvious round disc on the egg yolk. Well, if we were the store owner, this is what we would say to the customer: 1. We try to give our hens as natural a life as possible.  This includes plenty of space to roam, grass to...

Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE)  is often indicative of antibiotic abuse.  Farms that use sub-therapeutic antibiotic continuously may have animals that harbor VRE. VRE have been found in...

If you have a few thousand chickens running around, how do you know if some disease is starting? In antibiotic-free poultry raising, it is extremely important that we catch problems fast.  ...

We recycle used tires as nests for our layers. Here's a double decker.   It can also be a triple decker, both sides,   like an 'A' frame.   Hens selecting their nests for...