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Nice to Meet 'Ya

3/9/2023

 
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#puppes #chickens #pastured #eggs #paddocklife #freedom #Maremma #theoldandthenew

Chickens and curiosity

3/2/2023

 
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“Four be the things I’d been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.”

And so would the chickens - full of curiosity - and love of all things for pecking - around our house.

— from the poem “Inventory” by Dorothy Parker
#curious #chicken #pasturedeggs #freetoroam #eggs #everywhere

The Maremma - Chickens Symbiosis

2/23/2023

 
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Pedicure anyone? It’s still summer for open toes shoes
The Maremma protect the chickens from predators at night, and the chickens keep the Maremma clean of any fleas and bugs.
Symbiosis with benefits.
#chickens #maremmadogs #symbiosis #paddocklife #pasturedeggs

The Pointy egg

2/16/2023

 
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Named “Mount Kilimanjaro”, the tallest freestanding egg in the world.
What would your name be for this egg?
We are having a bit of fun today with funny egg names: cone egg, spiky egg, point peak
#naming #funnyegg #pointyegg #coneegg #mounkilimanjaro #funatwork #havingfun #eggsarefun #pastured #eggs

Lullaby

1/27/2023

 
That kind of lazy afternoon in the golden hour. Look out! There are always two who stretch and shuffle and snore and disturb the pile of puppies #goodnight #puppies #maremma #sleep #lullaby #farmlife. Photography by Haydn

Can't see any chickens?

1/20/2023

 
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That’s because the crops are above ute height, the rain was blissful yesterday, and the sun is giving just the right amount of warmth caress!
#summer #pasture #eggs #cantseechickens #crops #farmlife

Wool and eggs

1/12/2023

 
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Under his own vine and fig tree

1/5/2023

 
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"Everyone will sit under his own grapevine and fig tree, and no one will make him afraid"
Here is to Jack, the greatest Maremma in the world, enjoying his retirement, under his own vine. He is now only responsible for guarding the house, after years of exemplary service to thousands of ladies Well deserved, Jacko! It is lovely to see you relaxed and enjoying that spotty shade.
-- based on Micah 4:4
#retirement #Maremma #sheepdog #shade #hisownvine #pasturedeggs

New Year's wish

12/30/2022

 
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“The Brain — is wider than the Sky --
For — put them side by side --
The one the other will contain
With ease — and [hens] — beside —“

—- from the poem “The Brain is Wider than the Sky” by Emily Dickinson
with some alterations for Hilltops free range hens.

Wishing everyone a mind and imagination greater than the vast skies above us! Happy New 2023!
#sky #chickens #eggs #opensky #poetry #pastured #pasturedeggs #emilydickinson #farmlife #happynewyear

Merry Christmas

12/25/2022

 
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Eggs as Christmas decorations go well too! Merry Christmas to everyone! #eggs #christmas #merry

Wait for the power sneeze

12/22/2022

 
Chilling out on a sunny afternoon after the perfect shower we had today.
The best bit is when all the chickens scatter around, after Gordo (the gorgeous Maremma dog)‘s power sneeze.
#whatasneeze #sneezing #pastured #farmlife #maremma #pasturedeggs #chickens

Art in the Paddocks

12/15/2022

 
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This egg was stuck to the tray, impossible to pry it out. So, we turned it upside down, and made a cowboy hat

When life gives you lemons...
#everydayart #artisgreat #eggs #paddockart #pasturedeggs #boorowa #eggsandart

Summer is for salads

12/8/2022

 
Salad time for everyone! #grass #maremma #pasturedeggs #summer #eatinggrass #pasture

What is a tree hollow?

12/1/2022

 
What is a tree hollow?
A new bedroom, a veranda extension, adjacent to the dust bath that is next to the tree?
A meeting place for three friends?
A refuge from the midday sun?
A kitchen for munching on new grass?
Or a place to lay hidden eggs?
#treehollow #pasturedeggs #eggs #shade #dustbath #threehens #chickens #pastured
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Our 1978 Daihatsu Scat

11/24/2022

 
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Had to start our 1978 Daihatsu Scat this week, to help the collection. Classic cars for the classic pastured eggs.
All our buggies gave up at the same time, must be so much mud getting into the mechanics.

The hens seem to love it :)
#classiccars #pastured #pasturedeggs #oldcars #oldiebutgoldie #eggs #oldage #cars #challenges


Floods NSW exemplified

11/17/2022

 
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Whatever it takes, to get eggs for our customers!
The perils of completely pasture-based, pastured, free-range eggs operations.
 
We hope everyone in NSW is safe, and all people missing are found safe and sound.
 
#floods #mud #dangerousfarming #pastured #eggs #extremedriving
 
--Photography by Ana

Weird, wacky and wonderful eggs

11/10/2022

 
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​Have you ever seen an egg wrinkled?
Or an egg with a head and a neck?
Can you spot tiny tot that's been mingled
with the eggs of our harvested flock?

--inspired by the weird, wacky and wonderful eggs we get. 
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It's a whole family we got today: 
- Daddy-Egg, standing tall and a little bit bent, for looking after the family. 
- Mommy-Egg, all wrinkly from washing dishes all day
- and the Tiny Tot, all perfectly round and plump and rolling all around freely 🙂
#weird #eggs #pasturedeggs #pasture #farmlife #poetry #wierdeggs #wacky #wonderfuleggs

Robert Burns and November

11/3/2022

 
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"If a body meet a body,
Comin' through the rye,
If a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?"

Robert Burns clearly had our paddocks in mind when he wrote "Comin' Through the Rye" :)
Particularly, at the beginning of a very wet November, with the hens getting lost in the tall rye.

#robertburns #tallgrass #lost #hens #poetry #pastured #eggs #rye 

Busted!

10/27/2022

 
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Underage driver, no license, no P plates, trying to steal my buggy for a joyride on the paddocks!

Loveliest of trees

10/20/2022

 
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“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing [pink] for Eastertide.
…
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry, [as hens do].”
-- from the poem ‘Loveliest of trees, the cherry now’ by A. E. Housman [with minor corrections by Hilltops free range pasture-raised hens]
We, both hens and man, are incredibly lucky to be near Young, the Cherry Capital of Australia.
#farmlife #cherryblossom #pasturedeggs #springisbeautiful #pinkblossoms #cherrytree #hens #youngnsw #hilltops #eggs

Happy World Egg Day

10/14/2022

 
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Brown, white, crinkled, wobbly, weird and wonderful! A healthy protein source from happy chickens! #pasturedeggs #eggs #weirdegg

No pain, no gain

10/13/2022

 
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In this abundant Spring of prickly leaves everywhere, a quiet place to settle down and lay an egg.
Let humans deal with the messy adventure of going through pain to reach a gain.
#pasturedeggs #pasture #spring #prickly #nopainnogain #eggs #quiet #painandgain

--Photography by Thomas

That afternoon feeling

10/6/2022

 
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On a warm, humid Pre-Friday.
This pup was looking for a long time for a dry place after the downpour last night, and the pieces of concrete were the perfect bed, warmed by the glorious sun we are having this afternoon. You can literally feel the moisture in the air!
#nofilter #maremma #napping #beautysleep #aftertherain #pastured #eggs #puppy

The September Gale

9/29/2022

 
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“I’m not a chicken; I have seen
Full many a chill September,
And though I was a youngster then,
That gale I well remember;
The day before, my kite-string snapped,
And I, my kite pursuing,
The wind whisked off my palm-leaf hat;--
For me two storms were brewing!”
 
— from the poem “The September Gale” by Oliver Wendell Holmes #chicken #poetry #perfectpoem #storms #rain #thunderstorm #september #wind 

You know you are a mom when...

9/22/2022

 
You know you're a mom when walking around while breastfeeding and eating lunch isn't out of the ordinary. :) :) :)
 
--Photography by Selena
 
#mom #farmlife #walkingandbreastfeeding #puppies #Maremma 
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Hilltops Free Range Chicken Eggs Farm in Boorowa, NSW

Farm address:
"Reynoldsdale" farm
1056 Lachlan valley way
Boorowa
NSW 2586

Postal address:
P.O. box 34
Boorowa
NSW 2586

Hours

Monday to Saturday
7am - 5pm

Contact us

Send us an email at: eggs@hilltopsfreerange.com