The eggmobile

Joel’s proudest innovation is the Eggmobile; it’s like a mix between a henhouse and a schooner. Housing about four hundred laying hen and it has nesting boxes lined up from the inside, allowing someone to retrieve the eggs from the outside. Chickens are also free-ranged in the same way. They place chicken wires around the Eggmobile to prevent them from going too far and they feed on the animal’s droppings, breaking the cycle of infestation and disease. Whenever is time for the chickens to be fed, Joel Salatin climbs to the tractor that the Eggmobile is attached to and slowly tows it across the meadow to a paddock the cattle had vacated three days earlier. As a result the hens will intake a prodigious amount of protein, making their eggs rich and tastier.