How our hens actually live

THE PASTURE RAISED METHOD · HOW IT SHOULD BE

No fixed sheds. No overcrowding. Just open pasture, fresh ground every day, and a farming system built around the land rather than against it.

Kingsclere Estates is a working organic farm on the chalk downland of the North Wessex Downs. The fields grow grass and herbal leys — a mix of chicory, clover and grasses designed to feed the soil as much as the animals grazing on it.

No chemical fertilisers. No pesticides. Just land farmed the way land should be farmed.

Our hens are part of that system. They follow the dairy herd, moving onto fresh pasture every few days. What looks like a simple arrangement is actually one of the most effective ways to farm well.

THE ROTATIONAL SYSTEM — STEP BY STEP

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Grass and herbal leys absorb sunlight and draw nutrients from the soil — no artificial inputs, no shortcuts. The fields do the work naturally.

Cows from the Roaming Dairy move across the pasture, converting grass into milk and returning manure to the earth — rebuilding fertility with every pass.

The land grows

The dairy herd grazes

Our hens follow

About two days behind the cows, we move our mobile houses onto the same ground. The hens scratch through the manure for bugs, worms and larvae — protein that no grain can replicate.

The egg

A hen that eats well, moves freely and lives as a hen should lays a different egg. Darker yolk. Richer flavour. Nothing added. That's the result of the system.

'A hens absolute favourite thing is to scratch and dig into fresh ground'

WHAT ENDS UP IN THE EGG.

A deep orange — not from colourants added to the feed, but from a diet of insects, worms, fresh grass and organic grain. The colour is a byproduct of the system working as it should.

Try one and you'll see the difference. We're confident enough to say that.

You'll notice the yolk straight away

Ready to taste the difference?

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