'That prompted me to reflect on the concept of 'happy farming' and led to the change from raising meat birds.' 'Every time she learned that broilers were about to be slaughtered, she would get so upset, she'd lock herself in her room for a week,' Lin said. But Lin soon became aware that his younger sister was having a problem with one aspect of the business. When he took over management of the farm from his elderly father in 2015, it was a broiler poultry farm. While Lin's farm in Miaoli's Zaociao Township did not start out as a cage-free egg farm, a series of circumstances led the owner to move in that direction. 'But what counts is the love and care we give to our chickens.' 'It is difficult for small farmers like me to compete against them,' he said. Three years later, Lin is facing stiff competition from big companies that have since entered the market for the supply of barn-laid eggs, as they are also called. By Flor Wang and Tseng Chi-yi, CNA staff writer and reporterĮric Lin's (林智傑) five-hectare farm in Miaoli was one of the first in Taiwan to start supplying major supermarket chains in the country with locally produced cage-free eggs in 2018.

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