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Winter gardens allow hens to range more freely while being kept under cover and away from wild birds, thereby reducing the risk of avian influenza spreading. However, he added: “[Things are] improving, but they’re still not great… Some processors and producers are short of eggs, still, and having to import. So we’re not totally out of the woods yet.” Their excellent quality makes them the first choice for poaching, cooking, and making delicious cakes. Today the 95-year-old company is known for the Burford Browns brand, as well as other upmarket eggs such as Cotswold Legbars and Seabright Sages. It also sells specialty eggs from birds such as ostriches.
Extra protein may be required during molting. Fresh, clean water must always be available too. Common Burford Brown Health Issues But all this emphasis on design rather miffs Bourns, as becomes clear when I visit his farm. In normal circumstances, his hens would all be roaming around outside. The avian flu epidemic means they’re confined to their barns – but they seem happy and healthy enough, rootling around on the straw, feathers notably shiny. In the sorting area by the coop, there is a button to make a conveyor belt deliver white, blue, pink and brown eggs into a tray, straight from the roosts. The market leaders in the egg world are Noble Foods, which produces more than 60m eggs a week and distributes them under various brands, some organic (Purely Organic), some free-range (The Happy Egg Co) and some neither (Big & Fresh). Another big layer is Stonegate Farmers, which provides all of Waitrose’s eggs and owns posh egg pioneer Clarence Court, a Wiltshire farm that pumps out 400,000 free-range eggs every day. Even when birds must be housed due to bad weather or bird flu, organic birds are given much more indoor space as well as perches and enrichments like straw and vegetables,” says Alex Cullen, certification commercial director at the Soil Association. British supermarkets have faced heavy shortages of eggs over the last year, with some retailers including Tesco, Marks & Spencer and Morrisons forced to restrict the numbers shoppers could buy last November.
Covered areas of indoor range, sometimes called winter gardens or verandas, vegetation cover, and avoiding beak trimming are among some of the enhancements that improve the welfare of hens. To avoid disappointment, beware of rogue dealers using our breed names to offer ‘look-a-like’ but inferior birds or hatching eggs!
We had eggs and birds from the supplier and after a trade mark dispute we agreed never to breed or supply them.
In 1980, Mr. Lee-Woolf (Mabel Pearman’s grandson) began commercially raising Burford Browns, at the Millhampost farm, near Winchcombe.
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