Located at Great Western near Ararat on the foothills of the Grampians (just over 200km, from Melbourne) the Green Eggs girls have 480 hectares upon which to shake their tail feathers.
Green Eggs are Green Eggs because the Greens run the place! Head rooster Alan Green and his beloved hen Shelly Green apply sustainable and ethical farming practices. For the Greens, freshness and quality only come from happy and healthy hens.
During daylight hours the Green Eggs girls are free to roam, graze, dirt bath, forage, and rest under shady red gums. By night, The Greens provide state-of-the-art accommodation sheds in compliance with industry standards, featuring shade and a shelter with a deep litter floor of rice hulls, as well as a luxury day spa (aka sprinklers, where the chicks can keep cool in the hotter months so they don’t fall off the perch).
The girls are guarded by four professional bodyguards, so the hens are always safe from harm. Specially bred Italian Maremma livestock dogs are on hand to protect the lovely ladies from chicken hawks, feral cats and cunning foxes. So fond are the boys of the girls that from day one they refused to sleep in their kennels and bunked in with the hens instead.
The free-spirited chooks enjoy a naturally balanced diet of real food (like the squirming things you find under a log). In an age of “boutique everything”, the girls drink specially infused mineral water (aka iodised water, a naturally occurring element added to the dam water to sanitise it, ensuring healthy tummies for the hens). A good diet makes for happy hens that deliver flavoursome eggs with great colour.
Green Eggs are handled with care for the utmost freshness and preservation and are delivered directly from the farm to you. To prove just how much they care about freshness, cartons include a ‘Laid-by’ date so you can know just when the eggs you purchased were laid.
For everyone there comes a time to hang up the boots and the Green Eggs girls are no different. They might still be laying beautiful eggs but just aren’t as efficient around the office as they once were. When this time comes, Shelley and Alan offer the golden handshake to their chooks and place them with new families, ensuring these conscientious chooks enjoy a warm place of repose. People come from all over Victoria and interstate to collect their very own Green Egg girl and give them a home and a new life of leisure.
Green Eggs is chuffed to have been awarded a few gongs recently, showing that some hard work does pay off. Big thanks of course goes to the Green Eggs girls, without which these awards are simply meaningless.