In 2017 The Federal Court ordered this company to pay penalties totalling a record $750,000 for making false or misleading representations that its eggs were 'free range', in proceedings brought by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. The Court found that most of the hens from Snowdale's sheds did not go outside as the farming conditions significantly inhibited them from doing so. These conditions included the number of pop holes, the number of birds per metre of pop hole, the flock size inside the shed and the shed size.

This company produces cage eggs, where each bird is allocated space less than the size of a piece of A4 paper. Birds are unable to turn around easily, stretch out, flap their wings or exercise. Cages do not satisfy the hen's behavioural need to perch, dust bathe, forage, and lay their eggs in a secluded nest.