Nafferton Wold Farms is a business that was set up by Jim Dewhirst in 1997 following the acquisition of 2 farms in the Nafferton area. Originally an arable farming business the Company now rents its land out to its sister business, E. Reed & Son, and focuses its attention on its egg laying operation. The egg laying enterprise comprises 95,000 hens across 3 sites, a feed mill and a 64,000 bird pullet rearing farm. The business also operates a 500kW EWT wind turbine on Nafferton Wold and photovoltaic arrays that help power the laying and rearing farms and the feed mill with green energy.

These different divisions of the egg production enterprise will now be briefly described:

Free Range Eggs
Nafferton Wold has been producing woodland free range eggs since 2011 and now solely supplies all our eggs into Morrisons Supermarket via Chippindale Foods (Part of the Morrisons Food Manufacturing Division).

The 95,000 hens are split across three egg units close to the village of Nafferton and provide 1 hectare of range land per 2,000 hens, equating to just under 48 hectares of natural space for the birds to explore. This is approximately the same area as about 70 professional football pitches!

As we supply woodland eggs at least 20% of this range area is covered in trees, which the birds have access to from 9am to dusk each day. As the sun sets the birds return to the barn naturally to roost and the pop holes, through which they enter and leave the building, automatically close to keep them safe at night.

The eggs laid by the birds are collected daily by conveyor belts that run behind the nest boxes and bring the eggs into the packing room. Here they are graded and packed onto trays and pallets for collection by Chippindale Foods 2-3 times a week.

This is all overseen 7 days a week by our highly trained and motivated staff who are responsible for the health and welfare of the hens and the safe collection and packing of our delicious and nutritious free range eggs.

Feed Mill
In 2025 we built and commissioned a feed mill to feed our free range hens. This enables us to feed our own wheat and barley and gives us direct control of the diets which are fed to the birds. If we feel the birds are short of any particular element within the feed we can easily adjust the diets at the mill to ensure the birds’ needs are being met as closely as possible.

This leads to happier and healthier hens and more nutritious and tasty eggs for our customers.

Pullet Rearing
New to 2026 is our pullet rearing farm close to the egg farms outside Nafferton. Pullet rearing enables us complete control of the rearing of day old chicks to 16 week old pullets which arrive at our laying farms at “point of lay”. The birds are reared on a state of the art aviary system which is fantastic for their health and welfare and gets them used to the type of “multi-tier” system that we use on our own laying farms.

We can now ensure all our hens that arrive at our laying farms are reared to our strict high standards and are also fed on feed produced in our own mill. This enables us to be directly responsible for the hens from the day they are hatched through to the laying of our scrumptious free range eggs.

We also rear more pullets than we require for our own farms and so we are able to sell pullets to other farmers who also get to benefit from our high quality rearing system. If you are an egg farmer that is interested in being supplied with pullets from us please don’t hesitate to get in touch!