Standards for Auroville eggs

Auroville has a few farms and communities that keep chickens ‘the natural way’. The largest is AuroOrchard, which is supplying approximately 5,000 eggs a week. Now a Poultry Group has been formed by several farmers intending to start egg farming for Auroville. The Group has started working on ‘Standards for Auroville Eggs’. These are not quite as stringent as ‘organic’ or ‘country’ eggs, as it is presently difficult to guarantee 100% organic feed and a generous outdoor space of 5 square metre per hen; but they are a vast improvement on previous conditions.