The simple answer, says Jane Howorth MBE, founder of the British Hen Welfare Trust, is yes. “At least from the hens’ perspective. Typically, the more you pay for eggs, the better the quality of life the bird will have enjoyed.” But it’s not always guaranteed.

Sometime later, Mr. Lee-Woolf joined Clarence House and relocated to the Coach House farm on Broadway, where the famed ‘Clarence Court label helped propel the success of their eggs. Unlike most layers of dark eggs, the Burford produces up to 240 in the first year and in the right free range conditions, will lay for many years. Minimum life based on 'use-by' date of product. Average life based on last week's deliveries. Life guarantee shown based on delivery tomorrow with the Life guarantee starting the following day. Such white eggs were the industry norm and were mass-produced by commercial farms that prioritized efficiency over quality. Diet is essential to hens and requires good quality layer feed from the point of lay (about four months of age).Barred Wyandottes, Light Sussex, Rhode Island Reds, White Jersey Giants, Bantam Vorwerks, Bantam Buff Orpingtons, Bantam Chocolate Orpingtons, Lavender Pekins, Columbian Pekins, Gold Partridge Pekins and Buff Pekins. After a few years, Mr. Lee-Woolf decided to move to the Coach House farm on Broadway and joined Clarence House, where the egg brand began to grow under the renowned ‘Clarence Court’ label. Morrisons stopped selling eggs from caged hens in 2020, while other major supermarkets including Tesco, Aldi and Lidl have committed to doing so by 2025, amid concerns over animal welfare. Preventative use of antibiotics, which is commonplace in intensive systems, is also banned in organic systems to ensure better living conditions for hens and to reduce overuse of these medicines.

Frankly anyone who has bought a burford brown from the producer is as mad as anyone who pays the huge premium for the eggs. In addition to eating their natural diet of meat, eggs, and milk, these animals will also enhance their diet with grass, clover, and perhaps other greens, as well as insects and beetles, thanks to their penchant for foraging. After this, they soon became famous, and significant British supermarkets (Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose) across the UK started selling these eggs.Due to their excellent breeding, they can be disease free if well looked after and kept in the right conditions. Today the 95-year-old company is known for the Burford Browns brand, as well as other upmarket eggs such as Cotswold Legbars and Seabright Sages. It also sells specialty eggs from birds such as ostriches. Even when birds must be housed due to bad weather or bird flu, organic birds are given much more indoor space as well as perches and enrichments like straw and vegetables,” says Alex Cullen, certification commercial director at the Soil Association.

Due to the high demand for our birds, we are taking bookings for Burford Browns in February 2024 with the option of filling cancellation spaces in the autumn. We advise early booking to avoid disapointment. It happened to me yesterday,” he says. “I won’t name the company but this was somewhere I always thought was all right: small company, little farm, one gate. Then the whole thing shatters. You realise they buy their eggs off other farms. The little farm’s a front. There’s Big Egg behind it.” Some hens may have more dark brown colored feathers over their bodies, and some may have feathered feet and legs. Supplies of Burford Brown eggs are at risk from soaring costs and outbreaks of bird flu, the brand’s owner has said. We sell ten different varieties of point of lay hybrids, fully vaccinated. We also breed our own Cream Legbars, Copper Marans, Swedish Flower Hens, Brahmas and very rare Death Layers.They have such a single red comb that stands straight up and has points that are clearly defined. Moreover, the wattles and ear lobes of these birds are colored crimson. This breed was first bred in the Cotswolds in the 1940s by Mabel Pearman, who lived in Burford. Any guesses where they get their name?