Kipster Farm

See how we do this on www.kipster.farm. Layer hens are more than egg machines resulting in maximum profit. We see the chicken as an animal with instincts and needs:

- A chicken is a forest bird that loves to forage in a sheltered surrounding. Foraging is something she loves to do all day. Even when she's not hungry.
- A chicken wants to flutter, run, spread her wings, take dust-baths and sunbathe. She wants to be able to flee and seek shelter if she feels threatened.
- Kipster farms include tree structures, perches, haybales, pecking blocks, ground coverage, and we scatter grains on the farm floor so she can continuously forage, socialize, rest, and hide.
- The outdoor garden is fenced and covered with a net. This prevents the entrance of predators.
- We also take care of the roosters - the layer's brothers. Normally, roosters are directly killed when they hatch from their egg. We aim to give them a proper life. After lots of foraging and relaxing, we process them into meat-products which you can buy at Lidl (EU) and Kroger (US).
- The Kipster eggs are Humane Certified and Carbon-Neutral certified.
- The hens eat a diet that consists of over 80% of upcycled human food ingredients, such as bakery by-products, crop processing by-products, and safe food waste products. So we use hardly any agricultural land to feed the chickens. based Kipster farm started producing eggs in December 2022. Kipster eggs are sold at Ralphs, King Soopers, Fred Meyer, QFC, and at Kroger stores in Cincinnati, Michigan, and Colombus (OH) in the United States. You can find them under the Kroger's Simple Truth + Kipster eggs brand. The meat products will be introduced later in 2023. The farm is owned and operated by Egg Farms, in North Manchester, Indiana. You are welcome to visit the farm's visitor center where you can learn about the chickens and see them in action. Or you can watch them on our Farm YouTube channel if you cannot make it to Indiana.