Happy Eggs in Franklin, Tasmania, Australia | Farm

Happy Eggs

Locality: Franklin, Tasmania, Australia

Phone: +61 429 931 640

Address: Braeside Rd 7113 Franklin, TAS, Australia

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25.01.2022 An good explanation about free range versus pastured eggs.

25.01.2022 Weve had some rain!!!! Not alot - a slow soaking 9mm, but very welcome! The hens seemed to enjoy the heavy mizzle too, running around flapping their wings.

24.01.2022 Our old girls are ready for a new home. (I do love you buying our eggs though!)

24.01.2022 A momentary lull in the wind!

24.01.2022 Today is World Egg Day!!! So no eggceptionally, eggcellent jokes of eggstroidinary taste! Promise. Just good eggs from deliriously happy hens living the good life that all hens deserve!

23.01.2022 We were in the Mercury yesterday!

23.01.2022 An awesome course for producers and other business operators! Ive done this one and it is the most on point, useful course I have ever done....... even more so than the 2 year certificate in rural business management. Highly recommend it! Graeme Hand is an experienced and effective educator who engages participants, and ensures you will go away with a financial plan that will work for you and your business.

23.01.2022 Paula wrote the memo for my hens. No wonder I have no influence!

22.01.2022 Vermeys Quality Meats in Sandy Bay now stocking Happy Eggs! Also Tom McHugos, corner Macquarie St and Argyle cooking up a storm with them!

21.01.2022 Some little girls to eat the grass ahead of our hens. A useful (and very lovely) compliment to our pastured egg laying enterprise - 5 jersey heifers bought from my childrens fathers dairy farm.

19.01.2022 Meet the Team! First and foremost, the girls who make it all happen! Our hens are mostly Leghorn crosses who we bought as day old chicks and raised. Our stocking rate is around 60 birds per hectare.......somewhat below the free range standard of 10000 birds/ha! They live in movable trailers in the paddocks and orchards around our farm, so they have access to grass all year round.

19.01.2022 Our delicious pastured Happy Eggs are going into our scrumptious Christmas fruit cakes to be sold at the producers and artisan market at Willie Smiths this Saturday 9-12 noon. Pre order if youd like!

19.01.2022 Meet the Team! Lola is our chicken guardian. She has meant we can keep a flock of chickens in the paddock, instead of being in a shed. The hawks used to cut a swathe through the flock regularly. Since we have had Lola, no hens have been lost to raptors. And she is very sweet.

18.01.2022 Momentum is building towards our conference here in Tassie 5-6 June! Case studies from successful regenerative farmers are a mainstay of the conference along with our keynote speakers, Charles Massy and more. Pastured poultry is one of the pieces in the regenerative ag puzzle. Pleased to be involved in organising this conference.

18.01.2022 As much as I love hand winding up the jacks on the corners on each of my trailers each time I move them, I think I have jack envy! We level the chook trailers so the nests are level for the hens and the rollaway nest boxes work effectively.

18.01.2022 It's with a great deal of regret, I have decided to close our Happy Eggs pastured egg business for the time being. We have had complications with the hatchery, that have been compounded by the price of feed sky rocketing, due to the drought on the mainland. There are predictions of further feed scarcity as the season progresses. I love the pastured egg business, our dear hens and my wonderful customers. May be we will back. ... In the interim, we will explore options for rearing our own birds and becoming less reliant on outside grain sources. We experimented with building compost heaps for the hens this winter with good success. Thank you so much for your custom, encouragement and all round loveliness. It's been a hoot. ******************************************************************* For Sale: Leghorn x New Hampshire x Australorp x Red Production hens. First year layers. Been laying 2.5 months. $25 each

17.01.2022 I know there are many more nesting boxes to lay in, but I just wanna be with my bud - ok? (Im sure this hen has heard the Cows with Guns song - shes fearsome!)

15.01.2022 These girls have done a great job at keeping the grass down ahead of our chickens. Its time for them to find a new home as house cows or part of a larger herd. Im certainly going to miss their sweet faces and antics!

15.01.2022 Off on deliveries! Yay!

14.01.2022 Getting close to the last of the mob of older hens to sell from our pastured egg enterprise. 2 year old hens. Leghorn crosses $12. Hylines $8. Franklin. Theyve done a great job on the farm this year and would love to continue their laying careers in a cosy, safe backyard. Discounts for 6 or more hens. 0429931640.

13.01.2022 Its time to bring in a batch of younger girls to our pastured egg laying operation, so we have 2 year old hens for sale. After 18 months to 2 years the hens dont lay at a level that is commercially viable, but they will continue to lay well in backyards for years to come. These hens have had a wonderful life roaming the paddocks in the hills of Franklin and it is fitting that their service is rewarded with their next stage of life being in another happy home. Leghorns cross hens are $12 & hylines are $8 each. 0429931640

13.01.2022 Come to the Caberet - whoops - Come to the market at Willie Smiths Cidery near Grove. The Huon Producers Network stall will be there selling loads of awesome fresh organically grown produce, including our Happy Eggs - pastured, beyond free range eggs, full of the goodness only hens on fresh grass roaming the paddocks can produce!

12.01.2022 Buddies for the hens! They are peas in a pod. Im not sure how well tell them apart!

12.01.2022 An awesome course for producers and other business operators! I've done this one and it is the most on point, useful course I have ever done....... even more so than the 2 year certificate in rural business management. Highly recommend it! Graeme Hand is an experienced and effective educator who engages participants, and ensures you will go away with a financial plan that will work for you and your business.

11.01.2022 Not too exciting or newsworthy, but here is the working end of pastured laying hens.......food and water out in the paddock, close at hand. Its not possible to do this in winter, so its all bucketed out on the quad bike. A task that keeps us warm! Its dried out enough in the last couple of weeks to drive the ute and trailers over the paddocks again.

09.01.2022 Its with a great deal of regret, I have decided to close our Happy Eggs pastured egg business for the time being. We have had complications with the hatchery, that have been compounded by the price of feed sky rocketing, due to the drought on the mainland. There are predictions of further feed scarcity as the season progresses. I love the pastured egg business, our dear hens and my wonderful customers. May be we will back. ... In the interim, we will explore options for rearing our own birds and becoming less reliant on outside grain sources. We experimented with building compost heaps for the hens this winter with good success. Thank you so much for your custom, encouragement and all round loveliness. Its been a hoot. ******************************************************************* For Sale: Leghorn x New Hampshire x Australorp x Red Production hens. First year layers. Been laying 2.5 months. $25 each

09.01.2022 It looks like some young hens may be delivered in the next couple of weeks, so time to move on some more of last seasons matrons. The girls are mostly Leghorn crosses, with a few Hylines. The girls have had a wonderful life here, roaming the paddocks, scratching around under trees and hanging out with their mates. Im looking for new backyard homes for the 2 year old hens who are past their peak laying period (in commercial terms) but will go on laying for years to come. They have stopped laying temporarily while their bodies have a break but will start again once their moult is done. Leghorn crosses $12. Hylines $8. Ill collect them up tonight for pick up from the farm tomorrow afternoon/evening, or at the Artisan and Produce Market at Willie Smiths Apple Shed tomorrow morning 9-10am. Message or phone on 0429931640.

08.01.2022 Here is the human part of the team! The kids are spread far and wide these days, but they have been a crucial part of getting the farm where it is today. They have lugged stuff a lot, fed animals, shut birds in at night, fenced, processed birds, waited and waited.......the list is endless! Thank you Henry, Meg, Jemma and Fergus. Meg is still here and often the face of Happy Eggs, delivering to shops. She is also my go-to person when Im running late and need help....and my backup when I want a day off to visit the other kids.......or play.

07.01.2022 Pastured eggs versus organic eggs versus free range eggs. For the best outcome for the hen and for the healthiest, most flavoursome egg - Go Pastured. Eggs. Always. This graphic is from the US, but the terms are applicable here in Australia too.

06.01.2022 Happy Eggs are coming to the Twilight Market at Sandy Bay this Friday 4.30pm-9pm! Its our first market there, so fingers crossed....Ive heard its a beauty!

06.01.2022 I love my hens but they do most of these things. Seriously. They do.

04.01.2022 Composting is a big part of what we do here. The hens have compost heaps in each paddock to pick through and nourish themselves. This forum is what we can do at a community level.

04.01.2022 Its official! Pastured eggs are more nutritious! As well as tasting better.....

03.01.2022 Check out the scrumptious sponge cakes at The Stamping Ground cafe inside the Franklin Post Office! Made with our Happy Eggs!

03.01.2022 Lola doesn't bark at nothing. I don't think. I just can't locate what it is sometimes. The other times it is sea eagles, hawks, quolls, dogs on the road, neighbour's cars, visitors at the gate, me with a big backpack on at first light on the way to the airport.......all understandable stuff. Love Lola.

01.01.2022 Its been a wet winter in the Huon. The hens struggled in the mud and springs came out of the hills, further saturating the already sodden paddock that was suffering from so many feet scratching the grass out by its roots. The last straw was when the trailer got bogged in one of the orchards. Soooooo.....a couple of months ago the hens moved from their trailer in the boggy paddock to the dry barn with a deep bed of woodchips and straw. It was an experiment to save the gr...ass cover in the paddock and to keep the hens happy, busy, and healthy with loads of vegetable greens from the garden, sprouted grain and compost heaps to scour through. Overall the winter move was a success. The hens breezed through the wet months in the cosy barn. It was a lot more work for me providing them with as many greens as they could eat, sprouting grains, carting water and building compost heaps for them to scratch through. Keeping the hens happy and occupied was a priority, so they didnt get grumpy with each other. While the hens were happy and the paddocks resting, the trade off was that despite copious amounts of organic market garden greens and weeds, the yolks lost their vibrant colour, although they retained their flavour and form. The girls are still camped in the barn, but are out on the grass all day now it has dried out enough. Happy Hens = Happy Eggs

01.01.2022 Lola doesnt bark at nothing. I dont think. I just cant locate what it is sometimes. The other times it is sea eagles, hawks, quolls, dogs on the road, neighbours cars, visitors at the gate, me with a big backpack on at first light on the way to the airport.......all understandable stuff. Love Lola.

01.01.2022 View from the office as I collect eggs. Good day to be a chicken farmer.