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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. 
​
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 

Who said chickens can't fly?

9/15/2022

 
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Maybe not soaring like eagles, but here they are, up in a throne of tree branches, way above my head.
The trees are a favorite place for our hens, for all the bugs and worms and insects they find around: delicious snacks and a great, diversified protein source.
The only problem is, I keep finding eggs hidden in the tree hollow
#losteggs #pasturedeggs #pastured #chickensfly #chickenslikeeagles #eggs #fly

"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice"

9/8/2022

 
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“But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
​
Back to the icy blast this week, but we think it was the last one. #ice #winter #farmlife #pasturedeggs #icyblast #frozen
--from the poem “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost, the beloved poet by night and chicken farmer by day!

Can you smell Spring?

9/1/2022

 
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Or maybe it's the beautifully scented Daphne that Foxy can pickup from the farm house?
Happy first day of spring!
Wonderful to feel the sun after the third La Nina winter in a row on the farm.
This is Foxy (also known as pup-pup), the Apprentice, the successful graduate of our apprenticeship program (https://www.hilltopsfreerange.com/blog/the-apprentice).
He is now mature, calm, measured, and knows his job well. It's nice just to lie down in the grass next to Foxy and smell Spring together.
#Spring #daphne #springisintheair #firstdayofspring #farmlife #pastured #eggs #Maremma #theapprentice #maremmadog #smell
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What it takes to produce pastured eggs

8/26/2022

 
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The fire truck pulled out the Landcruiser. The next day, the fire truck got stuck trying to pull out the buggy, but the red tractor was able to pull out the buggy.
The question is: who is going to pull out the fire truck now?

Adventures every day.
Photography by Francesco and Carla.
#stuck #mud #farmlife #pasturedeggs #bogged #rainydays

"I've revved and I've rocked and reversed it..."

8/18/2022

 
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“Oh, the radio tells me it's raining
But that I can see for myself
And they tell me a cyclone is coming
Oh, I surely could do with some help
…
Oh, I've revved and I've rocked and reversed it
Oh, I've dug at the mud on the wheels
I've kicked and I've sworn and I've cursed it
And to the good Lord I've appealed
But the line-up to heaven ain't open
I've a feeling I'm not getting through
Oh, I'll just have to lighten the load
One carton of [EGGS WITH BACON] should do”
--borrowed from the lyrics of “Send’er Down Hughie” by the great Slim Dusty
#mud #stuck #bogged #pastured #eggs #farmlife #rains #Australia #countrysongs #truesong #pasturedeggs #adventures
Photo by Alan

"I can see clearly now, the rain is gone"

8/11/2022

 
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“I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way.
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind.
It's gonna be a bright, bright bright, sun-shiny day!”
Just for a moment there, it looked like farm work might be possible again.

Back to the mud now. 


​#pasturedeggs
#sunshining #farmwork #rain

— lyrics of the John Nash 1972 song “I can see clearly now”

"I'm in love with mud"

8/4/2022

 
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"I'm in love with mud,
It's sad, I know, but true.
I just can't help but splash in it,
Or stomp a path right through.
...
I splatter in the grimy gloop,
I can't resist the ooze!
I run, I jump, I stamp about,
It drips into my shoes!"
The Joy!
#mud #soil #pastured #joy #pasturedeggs #freedom #rains
#puppy
-- excerpt from the poem "I'm In Love With Mud" by Gareth Lancaster


Splendour In the Grass - egg farm version

7/28/2022

 
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Splendour In The Grass - the Hilltops egg farm version 😂😂😂.   

The flip side of muddling through the last couple of months is that we have incredible, luscious, splendid GRASS! It is indeed like music to a farmer's ears .  We are also very happy to share tips and tricks with festival goers on how to in-bog vehicles, how to drive tractors and how to enjoy the wonderful rain and mud😄

#splendourinthegrass #farmlife #mud #grass #pasturedeggs #music

My Heart Leaps Up

7/21/2022

 
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"My heart leaps up when I behold 
   A rainbow in the sky"
 
If you look up, there is always hope. In anything, and for everything.
 
 
 -- poem by William Wordsworth
 
#hope #hardwork #farmwork #rainbow #pasturedeggs #chickens #green #lookup #teamwork

Ice pops for breakfast, anyone?

7/14/2022

 
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Our chickens are just like little kids, would have ice-pops for a meal anytime!
 
When left alone, both kids and chooks would choose ice-pops on a [grass] stick over any kind of nutritional, sugar-free option the 'boring' parents are trying to promote. 
 
While our farm is enjoying beautiful frosty mornings, the chickens love that moment when the sun is just about to fade out all the frost. Half the frost is up as fog, and half is in that half-ice-pop - half-slushie - half-water state on the long blades of grass.
 
Beautiful, perfect, cooling, thirst-quenching breakfast.
 
And the view from their breakfast table is not bad either.
 
#pastured #eggs #morning #frost #icecream #icecreamforbreakfast #pasturedeggs #chickens #morningwalk #farmlife #winter #wintermorning #winterfrost #naturalfeed 

It's finally dry

7/7/2022

 
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It's dry!
Life at the highest hill tops at Hilltops farm is good (pun intended): grass abundance, clear skies, cloud shapes to dream about. We hope everyone across NSW is safe, in all low grounds and high grounds alike. 
#surviving #floods #grass #clearskies #finallydry #sun #farmlife

Time to Stare

6/30/2022

 
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"What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?--

No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and [chooks]:

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare."

-- the poem "Leisure" by William Henry Davies, the Welshman, slight modifications by Hilltops free range
#stare #eggs #pasture #freedom 

The afternoon snack

6/23/2022

 
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High-protein, food of the future for humans, they say.
We just spared this chickens’ snack. Used a stick to fetch the dragonfly, managed to keep it away from the snacking chickens, and let it fly off.
No desert today, but our chickens get plenty of natural feed and insects, high-protein snacking, while roaming outdoors in mobile sheds all day every day.
#truefreerange #pasturedeggs #insectfood #chickens #naturalfeed #natural #dragonfly #snackforbirds

Chicken. Crossing. No road.

6/16/2022

 
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So why don’t I lay into the hollow tree and make everyone’s life more interesting?
#chicken #crossing #eggs #pasturedeggs #farmlife #noroad
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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