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Colorful fresh local, Organically-raised eggs for Easter! - $12 (Yorktown/Kitchawan)
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excellent
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Happy hens:)
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Limited quantity of standard size colorful eggs available from our flock of mixed hens (Americauna aka 'Easter Eggers', Black Australorpe, Blue Andalusian and others).
A dozen currently contains a mix of shades of green and cream.
The 2 photos of eggs cooking shows 2 of our eggs alongside one store-bought organic egg and you can see how much darker orange the yolk of our eggs is:)
$12/dozen, or $6/half-dozen, cash only. For pickup any day/time near Millwood.
Please note that we have the most eggs available during March-August when the hens lay the most eggs due to longest day length/most sunlight:)
We also have a *very* limited quantity smaller, cream-colored Bantam eggs from our wonderful mixed bantams aka small breed chickens. These are the eggs in the center orange bowl and bottom carton in the first photo, and the third photo.
For cooking and comparison, 2 Bantam eggs equal roughly one regular large egg. These unique eggs can't be found in a store and kids especially love them! And they make charming, dainty deviled eggs:)
$9/dozen.
These are some of the healthiest/most nutritious local eggs you're likely to find!
The background and details:
We have raised a small flock of 20 +/- chickens on our 3-generation family farm continuously for over 40 years. They forage outside on a wide variety of green weeds and bugs (did you know chickens favorite food is greens and insects?) and we feed them with the highest quality Certified-Organic SOY-FREE grains available, from New Country Organics https://www.newcountryorganics.com/layer-feed-50-pounds.html. Which is why they're more expensive than other local eggs you're likely to find offered, most are fed conventional feed which costs much less)
We soak and ferment the grains daily, which makes more nutrients available for digestion and gives the hens optimal nutrition from the grains (and thereby optimal nutrient density of the eggs!) They also *love* their favorite superfood treat daily, Grubblies black soldier fly larvae https://grubblyfarms.com/products/grubblies.
The hens enjoy lots of seasonal weeds, veg, fruits and berries from the organic gardens on our family farm. They are pets and we always let them live out their natural long lives instead of butchering them after +/- 3 years as is customary in egg production (almost all farms do this).
Also, rather than getting our chicks shipped from a hatchery and then raising them under a heat lamp (as is commonly done as a substitute for their mother) we let some of our hens sit on fertile eggs and raise their chicks, who we feed highest quality Certified-Organic Soy-Free chick starter from the get-go.
A box of lovely local, colorful eggs makes a delightful and pretty unique spring holiday, birthday or hostess gift!
Please contact us if you have any questions or would like to order eggs for pickup any time!