Ever wondered what makes organic eggs different?

Ever wondered what makes organic eggs different? Check out this info from the Soil Association

Organic chickens and eggs:

They live in smaller flocks – eight times smaller than in most free-range systems. This means the health of individual birds can be much more easily managed within a smaller flock.

Organic poultry must have continuous and easy daytime access to a diverse outdoor range – farmers must provide more pop holes from the hen-house than free-range farms do too, to encourage them to explore the range.

Chickens must not have their beaks trimmed. In non-organic systems, this is often done to prevent feather pecking, which arises as a symptom of stress from overcrowding.

Chickens must be given plenty of opportunities to express their natural behaviours, such as foraging, dust bathing and pecking at insects on a natural range.

Organic standards encourage poultry breeds that are slower growing, and more robust – organic poultry chickens live twice as long as most intensively farmed chickens bred for meat.

For more info, take a look at the Soil Association website: https://www.soilassociation.org/.../better-for-animals/