Feeding mussel waste to hens for nutrition and the environment

Free-range egg producer, Frenz, is solving an environmental problem and boosting the nutritional content of its eggs by feeding mussel waste to chickens. In New Zealand, one industry’s waste became another industry’s innovative and nutritious feed solution. Mussel farmers were discarding what they believed to be ‘mussel waste’. This is mussels that were too small or too big, broken, covered in barnacles. But Frenz founder and managing director, Rob Darby, saw an opportunity to create