Eggs & Chickens

Belleview Farm
Products:
Eggs
Local outlets:
Farm gate – Saturday & Sunday, 9am-5pm.
Kinglake Produce and Artisan Market
Township/suburb:
Park Orchards
Municipality:
Manningham
Notes (in their own words):

Located on a scenic hillside with a beautiful view, Belleview Farm is a small boutique farm selling free range eggs. Their birds are raised and tendered to on the farm and Belleview Farm takes pride in their welfare. They ensure that the birds are fed a nutritious, vitamin-enriched diet including seeds, grains and canola. The farm is pesticide-free and chemical-free.

Doreen Egg Farm
Products:
Free range eggs and Hyline Brown chickens
Local outlets:
Own shop – Monday to Thursday, 10am-4pm; Friday to Sunday, 8am-6pm
Local Fine Foods, Diamond Creek
Local brands sold:
Township/suburb:
Doreen
Municipality:
Whittlesea
Notes (in their own words):

Doreen Egg Farm sell a range of free range and farm fresh eggs to the local community from their shop premises in Doreen. Eggs are available in packs of 12 or 25.

Live Hyline Brown chickens are often available for sale for locals who would like to set up a chicken coop.

Henley Farms
Local outlets:
Two Sisters Fresh Produce, Research
Township/suburb:
Kangaroo Ground
Municipality:
Nillumbik
Notes (in their own words):

Henley Farms is a small micro re-generative farm that produces organic-fed, pastured, free range eggs.

You can buy the eggs online or at selected shops and farmers’ markets.

The farm is PROOF certified , which means that the chickens are raised outdoors with continuous and unrestricted daytime access to paddocks that are suitable for grazing and are provided with shade and shelter. Customised mobile caravans provide shelter, nest boxes and perches which are moved regularly to fresh pasture. They have a stocking density of just 150 birds per hectare.

The chickens feed on Certified Organic feed that comes from Country Heritage Feeds. All other inputs (garlic, kelp, etc) are Certified Organic. The farm is also Organically Certified for pasture. They do not use any chemicals, artificial fertilisers, antibiotics, hormones, fungicides, pesticides, herbicides or egg colour additives.

The chickens listen to classical music as they lay eggs.

Top Hundred Acres
Products:
Eggs (certified Free Range by FRFA).
Local outlets:
Farm gate – Friday & Saturday, 9am-5pm.
Health Bar Melbourne, Research
Township/suburb:
Yan Yean
Municipality:
Whittlesea
Notes (in their own words):

Top Hundred Acres’ produce is nurtured from the ground up using sustainable, chemically-free farming practices. They supply pastured eggs and garlic fresh from their farm to local stores, cafes, restaurants, caterers and direct to you.

Their hens (around 1,000 in number) are not de-beaked or wing clipped; their stocking density is less than 700 birds per hectare; they are fed natural grains (no yolk dye or meat meal); and they are rotated to fresh pasture (using portable sheds and fencing).

Situated in the heart of the Plenty Valley, Top Hundred Acres’ farm has been in the family for three generations and counting.

Yummy Gardens
Products:
A range of both cross bred and pure bred chickens
Local outlets:
Farm gate (by appointment)
Township/suburb:
St Andrews
Municipality:
Nillumbik
Notes (in their own words):

A range of both cross bred and pure bred chooks are available for sale from point of lay. Availability will vary depending on the time of year. The cross breeds include Australorp x New Hampshire, Australorp x Leghorn, New Hampshire x White Leghorn and New Hampshire x Rhode Island Red. The pure breeds include Australorp Utilities, Silky Bantams, Buff Cochins, Crested Cream Legbars and French Wheaten Marans.

Yummy Gardens also design and build chook houses to suit your requirements. And they can supply other accessories as well as free advice.