Muckadilla family plan to house 6000 chickens for their pasture fed egg business

Lucy Kinbacher
Updated July 26 2017 - 3:36pm, first published 1:30pm
BRIGHT IDEA: Megan Mackay of Muckadilla Pasture-Fed Eggs and some of the family's 500 chickens, which run on oats and native grasses.
BRIGHT IDEA: Megan Mackay of Muckadilla Pasture-Fed Eggs and some of the family's 500 chickens, which run on oats and native grasses.

A SOUTH west Queensland family have established a pasture fed chicken egg business and plan to have about 6000 hens feeding off oats and native grasses on their property.

Lucy Kinbacher

Lucy Kinbacher

Editor - Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register

Raised on a cattle property at Biggenden, Lucy Kinbacher has spent 10 years working across metropolitan, regional and rural publications in both Queensland and NSW. Lucy has been the editor of the Queensland Country Life and North Queensland Register since 2021.

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