Free-Range Eggs Investigation 2025

Farm Pride supplies free range and cage free eggs to major supermarkets under their own brand and is also a supplier for Coles brand free range eggs. Their Bears Lagoon farm supplies free range eggs from a system described by The Age as 'intensive free-range farming.'

In these sheds tens of thousands of birds struggle for space in filthy sheds. Hens showed evidence of reproductive illnesses and feather pecking, including missing feathers from their wings and necks. One chicken was filmed with a twisted, deformed leg, while others showed clear signs of being bullied by being pecked by other chickens.

Naturally, hens would form small groups with an established 'pecking order', however in these sheds, tens of thousands of birds are packed tightly together with only metal bars to perch on. This causes aggression, fighting and even cannibalisation which is recognised as the second most common cause of death on free range egg farms.