Why Hilltops Free Range Eggs?

Clean air, clean food

Our farm is in the cleanest region in Australia. The chickens feed on lush green grass and bask in the glorious sun, making Hilltops free range eggs naturally healthy and the yolk bright orange.

Beyond Free Range

The chickens in our Hilltops farm roam around without fixed barns. We move their mobile sheds around every few days so they can always enjoy fresh green grass. No barns nor cages. Pastured eggs from happy chickens.

Fresh Farm to Table

Hilltops Free Range eggs are brought to you directly from our farm, fresh and shortly after lay. There is minimal storage and a very short distribution chain: we have our own delivery trucks.  From the farm to your table in hours.

Pastured eggs

'Pastured' means our our chickens are raised outdoors, eat fresh green grass and enjoy the sun and wind on their feathers. They are protected by our Maremma Sheepdogs.

Biodynamic organic

We rotate the paddocks on our farm between our chickens, Merino sheep and Angus beef cattle. We apply biodynamic and organic farming principles to protect the land and respect the animals.

Natural feed

By roaming freely and moving across paddocks, the chickens eat a supplement of natural and varied diet: bugs, worms, high-protein grass. We do not use chemicals nor pesticides, nor artificial fertilisers on our farm.

Grand Champion Award at Sydney Royal Show 2024 and
Two Champion Awards for our Eggs

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Champion Award at Sydney Royal Easter Show  2022 and 2021
Hilltops Free Range egg farm received the Champion Award at the Royal Sydney Easter Show in 2022 and 2021. We also won the first prize in four categories, and 2021 was the first year that the Champion award went to a new winner.

Champion Award at the Royal Canberra Poultry Show 2018

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Hilltops Free Range eggs received the Champion ribbon at the Royal Canberra Poultry Show 2018. The professional jury measured and scored all eggs according to 9 criteria, and Hilltops eggs received perfect scores in 5 of those criteria: yolk, albumen, chalazae, freshness, shell texture, freshness, bloom and appearance.

What our customers say about Hilltops Free Range eggs

"My mum bought some eggs from you guys a while back... in Dee Why... I’ve never had eggs so good in my life.
 
Thank you!"

-- Customer |  Dee Why, Sydney, Australia
"Never had eggs so good in my life"
"You've got a customer for life"
"Just wanted to say a huge thanks for being available at my local IGA. I will only buy pastured eggs (we all know free range means diddly squat) and often can’t make it to my local farmers markets (sometimes they sell out too). I don’t really shop at supermarkets because I don’t like to support big companies that don’t care about health or well-being.

However, my local IGA often stocks products from smaller businesses that actually care about their produce. I saw your eggs there and was overwhelmed to see pastured eggs at a supermarket! Just wanted to know you’ve got a customer for life 👍
 
Keep up the good work"
 
-- Customer |  shopping for eggs at local Canberra IGA store
"They were the best eggs I ever have eaten in Australia in the last 35 years, and I really supported how you give your chooks so much outdoor space.  I am sooo happy with them.  I’ll cry if I can’t get the large, very fresh eggs anymore.

I would buy your eggs for the rest of my life!

Keep up the great work and keeping the chooks happy!"


--Customer  |   Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, Australia
"The best eggs in Australia in the last 35 years"
"You converted my vegan sister... because of the way you treat your chooks"
"You converted by vegan sister to start eating eggs. Now she won't let me buy any other eggs either, because of the way you treat your chooks.

It's hard to be vegan, and it makes it so much easier if you can eat eggs"


--Customer  |   Southside Farmers Market, Canberra, ACT, Australia
"Your eggs are really nutritious and tasty.

Keep doing what you’re doing, the best eggs on the market that I’ve seen so far.
Thank you."


--Customer  |   Belconnen, Canberra, ACT, Australia
"The best eggs on the market"
"The eggs are superb"
"...People would appreciate anything that they believe they are getting better value for.

Your eggs are expensive... (hard to justify on a pension), but well worth it…the eggs are superb. But if people think they are good value, they will buy again.

I shall remain a very happy customer."


--Customer  |   Canberra, ACT, Australia
" I live in Sydney but was visiting Canberra last weekend. We bought some of your eggs at The Kingston Markets. They are the best eggs we have ever had!!!!"
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--Customer  |   Killara, North Shore, Sydney NSW, Australia
"They are the best eggs
we have ever had!!!!"
"I am so glad I found a local producer... affordable, organic and free range"
"It is important to me that the animals I source food from have been treated well and not pumped full of hormones etc.  I have been trying to find an affordable local, organic, free range supplier of duck, chicken and quail eggs for a long time but have been unsuccessful.  However after reading about your farm and trying your smaller chicken eggs I think they would be good for my use.
I’m so glad I found a local producer."
 
--Customer  |   Southside Farmers Market, Canberra ACT, Australia
"Your eggs are absolutely beautiful. I buy one for me and one for my son. The 800 size is perfect. I like big eggs. "
 
--Customer  |   Randwick area, Sydney, Australia
"I buy one for me and one for my son... the eggs are beautiful"
Reminds me of "the Caribbean,
where we lived,
and where chickens roam freely
and the yolks are golden"
"For the past year, my family have been complaining that cooked Australian eggs really stink!!  We migrated from the UK. We have also lived in the Caribbean, where chickens roam freely, and are fed on corn : making their egg-shells firm, and yolks  golden.

Recently, I came across Hilltops free range eggs, in our local shop, where we now  reside.  I cautiously introduced this 'new egg' to my family, and their favourable comments and satisfaction with your product encouraged me to say a simple 'THANK YOU'.

The eggs are beautifully fresh, in strong shells and pleasingly presented in their sturdy packaging.  However they are prepared, there is no smell.!!
Once again Hilltops, thank you so much for an outstanding product.
With gratitude,"
 
--Customer  |   Waverton area, Sydney, Australia
"Hello Hilltops,
In this age of seemingly endless bad news and complaint, we thought we’d say well done to you and your ladies! We were regular buyers of organic eggs but after seeing Hilltops at Harris Farm St Ives, with a stocking density of just 145 hens per hectare and at a good price, we gave them a go and are converted. Knowing that the ladies have all that space to wander around in sun and wind, just makes the eggs taste better! And they poach well too.
 
So, our thanks for the effort and figuring out the no-doubt tough economics of it all. It is appreciated and we wish you continued success."
 
--Customer  |   St Ives area, Sydney, Australia
"In this age of bad news and complaint,
we thought we'd say well done
and thanks for the effort"
"It is a real pleasure to have found your eggs... so fresh & delicious "
"Thank you for providing such wonderful eggs!!!!
I have moved from the country to a flat in town and no longer have my own chooks & geese.
It is a real pleasure to have found your eggs at my local Supabarn. So fresh & delicious & they hold together so well for poaching!
Thank you, thank you."

-- SupaBarn Customer | Sydney
"We buy your eggs from Harris Farm ... and I just thought I would tell you that they are the best eggs I can recall ever having!  I’m 58 years old so that’s a big call.
 
I poach a lot of eggs and your eggs keep their shape really well.
 
The eggs have a vibrant colour and great taste.
 
We are also into sustainable practices and products and you seem to hit the spot here as well.
 
Whatever you’re doing, please don’t change a thing you’re doing eggceptionally well!
 
-- Harris Farm Customer | Sydney
"..the best eggs I can recall ever having... I'm 58 years old so that's a big call "
"The whites are so fluffy and the yolks are so rich.
...
Keep up the great work! Very happy customer over here!!"
"I just wanted to say that your eggs are the best eggs I’ve ever had from a supermarket!
I bought them for the first time at Harris farm when shopping online, and then when they ran out I switched my groceries ... just to be able to get your eggs, and happy to see they are now back at Harris Farm so I’ve switched back.

The whites are so fluffy and the yolks are so rich. I always thought all free range eggs are equal but after having your eggs I can even taste the difference and I’ll be buying your eggs when ever they are available to me! I’ve also tried other pastured eggs and organic pastured eggs from ethical butchers, some almost double the cost and they don’t come close to yours!

Keep up the great work!
Very happy customer over here!!"

-- Harris Farm Customer, Sydney
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Hilltops Free Range is honored to be a Finalist for the Telstra Business Awards 2019.

It is a testament to our belief in the sustainable, rotational innovative farming, in producing the highest quality food for our customers, and our passion for improving the soil for the next generations.

Full nutritional panel for Hilltops Free Range eggs

Eggs, min weight 600g

Eggs, min weight 700g

Eggs, min weight 800g