Heroic egg collectors

Interim Farm Manager Martin Royds, along with Poultry Farm Managers Roberto and Maria and the Mulloon Creek Natural Farms (MCNF) team members faced the full front of the recent floods at Mulloon.

With a very sodden floodplain and Hazeldell Road collapsed, feeding 35,000 chickens and collecting their eggs became a monumental task. Bogged vehicles slowed things up as well, but that is all part of agriculture. Unfortunately, you can’t instruct chickens to stop laying until road access is fixed!

The MCNF team did a terrific job soldiering on in such trying conditions! 

Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council were also terrific and were on the job as quickly as possible to undertake temporary repairs to allow trucks to get in and out. It was a long way around to some flocks but somehow it all got done and our eggs made it to market.