Chickens enjoy good life on the buses

By Scott Bevan
Updated October 18 2017 - 9:43am, first published August 13 2017 - 9:06pm
NCH Weekender. Papanui Open Range Eggs farm in Merriwa NSW promote a 'true' freerange model for their chicken farm. They use busses converted into mobile chicken coups to move the birds around their farm, following behind the beef cattle they also run. Pic shows owner Mark Killen posing for a portrait. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers MMH
NCH Weekender. Papanui Open Range Eggs farm in Merriwa NSW promote a 'true' freerange model for their chicken farm. They use busses converted into mobile chicken coups to move the birds around their farm, following behind the beef cattle they also run. Pic shows owner Mark Killen posing for a portrait. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers MMH
NCH Weekender. Papanui Open Range Eggs farm in Merriwa NSW promote a 'true' freerange model for their chicken farm. They use busses converted into mobile chicken coups to move the birds around their farm, following behind the beef cattle they also run. Pic shows owner Mark Killen posing for a portrait. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers MMH
NCH Weekender. Papanui Open Range Eggs farm in Merriwa NSW promote a 'true' freerange model for their chicken farm. They use busses converted into mobile chicken coups to move the birds around their farm, following behind the beef cattle they also run. Pic shows owner Mark Killen posing for a portrait. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers MMH
NCH Weekender. Papanui Open Range Eggs farm in Merriwa NSW promote a 'true' freerange model for their chicken farm. They use busses converted into mobile chicken coups to move the birds around their farm, following behind the beef cattle they also run. Pic shows owner Mark Killen checking eggs at one of the busses. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers MMH
NCH Weekender. Papanui Open Range Eggs farm in Merriwa NSW promote a 'true' freerange model for their chicken farm. They use busses converted into mobile chicken coups to move the birds around their farm, following behind the beef cattle they also run. Pic shows owner Mark Killen checking eggs at one of the busses. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers MMH
NCH Weekender. Papanui Open Range Eggs farm in Merriwa NSW promote a 'true' freerange model for their chicken farm. They use busses converted into mobile chicken coups to move the birds around their farm, following behind the beef cattle they also run. Pic shows owner Mark Killen checking eggs at one of the busses. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers MMH
NCH Weekender. Papanui Open Range Eggs farm in Merriwa NSW promote a 'true' freerange model for their chicken farm. They use busses converted into mobile chicken coups to move the birds around their farm, following behind the beef cattle they also run. Pic shows owner Mark Killen checking eggs at one of the busses. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers MMH
NCH Weekender. Papanui Open Range Eggs farm in Merriwa NSW promote a 'true' freerange model for their chicken farm. They use busses converted into mobile chicken coups to move the birds around their farm, following behind the beef cattle they also run. Pic shows owner Mark Killen with eggs in the packing shed. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers MMH
NCH Weekender. Papanui Open Range Eggs farm in Merriwa NSW promote a 'true' freerange model for their chicken farm. They use busses converted into mobile chicken coups to move the birds around their farm, following behind the beef cattle they also run. Pic shows owner Mark Killen with eggs in the packing shed. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers MMH
NCH Weekender. Papanui Open Range Eggs farm in Merriwa NSW promote a 'true' freerange model for their chicken farm. They use busses converted into mobile chicken coups to move the birds around their farm, following behind the beef cattle they also run. Pic shows owner Mark Killen. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers MMH
NCH Weekender. Papanui Open Range Eggs farm in Merriwa NSW promote a 'true' freerange model for their chicken farm. They use busses converted into mobile chicken coups to move the birds around their farm, following behind the beef cattle they also run. Pic shows owner Mark Killen. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers MMH

No sooner has Mark Killen stepped out of his vehicle in a wind-bashed paddock just outside Merriwa than more than 1000 animals rush towards him.

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