Prolonged wet weather has ruffled a few feathers at Holbrook Paddock Eggs.
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But it’s not so much the chooks as the humans who have struggled to keep afloat during the heavy downpours.
The free-range egg enterprise, which runs 10,000 grass-fed Isa Brown hens, has had its efforts to keep “the girls” happy – and laying – dampened by the rain.
Sam Pincott, who runs the family-owned business with his wife Prue, said he had to call in the big guns this week to keep everyone high and dry.
“The hens lay and roost in portable sheds out in the paddock that we move once a week to ensure they have access to fresh grass,” he said.
“This week we moved three of four sheds and got the tractor bogged so then we had confused chooks trying to return to the other shed to lay.”
Mr Pincott had to call in the services of an excavator to restore order.
He said the hens didn’t mind the wet weather as it brought tasty worms to the surface.