PASTURE GRAZED CHICKEN EGGS

  • $6.50/ dozen Fresh and nutritious Schedule “A” UNGRADED EGGS
  • Available fresh at our Vendor booth at the New Glasgow Farmers’ Market only on every second Saturday and Old School Markets every Friday – July through Oct.
  • At Farmstead by appointment… just call ahead to make sure we are home
  • Not refrigerated are available at farm gate on customer’s request
  • Non-GMO / non-medicated pellets (milled in N.S.) supplement to whole grains & natural pasture grazing
  • Re-establishing old fields with nutritional perennial crops and using rotational grazing methods
  • Deep bedding method of locally sourced straw and wood shavings provides nutrient-rich mulch and compost
  • No synthetic pesticides or fertilizers are applied to our fields or gardens * we use only our own flocks manure and compost (nope…not for sale!)
  • Safely pastured in wire and electric fencing and guarded by Rocky the Rooster and our Great Pyrenees / Maremma mix dog, Caspar
  • Outside ranging every day which helps make the egg yolks a beautiful deep orange colour!

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastured_poultry

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/pastured-vs-omega-3-vs-conventional-eggs

FREE RANGE MEAT KINGS

UPDATE: No commercial meat production in 2024

 

  • Chicken Farmers of NS (CFNS) ‘Specialty Licensed – Free Range’ chicken meat producer since 2016
  • RESERVE ORDERS early for fresh and customer freezer supply available in the fall. We have very limited freezer space.
  • Traditionally growing the ‘Nova Free Ranger’ variety… bred in N.S. for free-ranging capability and exceptional flavour (NOTE***in 2019 the breeding stock of this variety was sold to Ontario by the retiring developer and is no longer available locally)
  • ‘Meat King’ variety production began in 2021
  • No-GMO / non-medicated pellets (milled in N.S.) supplement to whole grains and natural pasture grazing
  • Provincially inspected processing and shrink wrap packaged at abattoir
  • Pick up fresh at our Farmstead gate on the day of approved processing or held frozen by request
  • Update: ALL SOLD! Limited quantities available frozen at the New Glasgow Farmers’ Market only on every second Saturday…check the Market page listings for schedule https://ngfarmmarket.com/