We take many steps to ensure the health and safety of the girls. In fact, we have an entire team dedicated to supporting our farmers through weekly phone calls, monthly in-person visits, quarterly meetings, a seasonal newsletter, and a bi-annual survey. We provide guidance on care for the girls in all of these touchpoints. On all farms, we take measures to proactively prevent predators and pecking. Because the risk of predation is highest at night, our girls are taught from a young age to come indoors before sunset. We also regularly patrol our farms and use harmless countermeasures (like dummy owls!) to keep aerial predators at bay. To protect the girls from pecking each other, we follow an industry-standard practice of dulling the tips of their beaks. We follow this process to reduce the beak’s sharpness, so hens don’t hurt themselves. See more information on beak trimming from Certified Humane, one of our auditors, here. Finally, we work with an external veterinary partner who visits farms regularly with our farm support crew and is also available on an on-call basis. The services help educate our crew and quickly aid farmers in need.
