An interview with the United Kingdom-Walking the Egg Farm

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Friends from the British restaurant invited me to visit the "Walking Egg Farm" (free-range egg farm). Of course, I said yes! The farm is located in Gloucester. We start from London and get there by train in about three hours.

Compared with traditional intensive chicken farms, "walking chickens" (or free-range chickens) do not have to be trapped in narrow cages all day, but can move in an open barn and are free to go for a walk outdoors! (1) (as a matter of fact, when I went back to the mainland to my hometown when I was a child, the chickens in my relatives' homes were everywhere. Is this also a walking chicken? )

This visit is arranged by the egg suppliers of the restaurant in the hope that the people in the restaurant will know how their eggs are produced and will feel more at ease in using their eggs.

I thought that as soon as I entered the farm, hundreds of chickens would fly around me, but the first thing we saw was a "machine", not a "chicken"-an "automatic egg feeding machine" that methodically arranged the eggs into the box.

Standing next to the transport belt, several workers pulled out the cracked eggs and "beat" the eggs, storing the egg whites and yolks separately.

"some eggs are substandard and cracked. You can't just sell them, but you can also sell their yolks and egg whites." The staff leading the team explained to us.

"if you make money, of course you will run out of eggs." I thought to myself, how can I let it go if I have a business?

Walking chickens walking on the hillside

(1) according to the Egg Information Network of the British Egg Industry Commission (The British Egg Industry Council), EU legislation on egg sales requires "walking chicken farms" to ensure that hens have continuous access to farms mainly covered by plants during the day, with a density of up to 2500 chickens per hectare. In addition, in terms of the available range of hen barns, there should be no more than 9 hens per square meter, and each hen should have 15 cm perch branches.

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