“I try not to forget the courtesies against chickens.”

There is rare in Japan(maybe in the world), a no-kill and free-range egg farm.

They are sweeping through the green grass on a spacious site, digging the soil, taking a dust bath and chickens are busy days.Sometimes a group headed by a male go a walk to the next house with their own will.Here you can see the real chicken’s social life.

The owner Kawahara said

Chicken is a small creature of the body.
Summer is a difficult season for chickens with an average body temperature around 42 ° C, which must be lifted and overcome. And from the beginning of autumn, until May of the following year, the tension of avian influenza continues uninterrupted.

The present natural environment is severe in our wish that we want them to live in an environment with little stress, without losing physical strength, until their lives are exhausted.
As they get over the severe seasons and they divided their eggs for us, we support the maintenance of the health of the chickens, so that they will not be difficult to live by the intervention of human thought. I’m sure not to forget the courtesy for them.

Chickens raised for egg are slaughtered as “meat” in 1 to 2 years in Japan. But Satellite’s chickens are living in their lifetime.

On my farm, there is a seven-year-old hen who calls” Elder. ” The male boss chicken has reached about the fifth old.When I saw their appearance who gathered the group well, I think that they have successfully gotten older. I think I met a good partner to follow.