All about Eggs!

So many of our customers come in asking various questions about our eggs and chickens. I figured I would give everyone a run down on the facts of chicken and eggs:

There are two different kinds of chickens that we raise:
broilers, which are catagorized as meat chickens the ones that you will find in our display case.
And, pullets or hens, when full grown, which are your egg laying chickens and the better producers of a quantity of eggs. Now, it's not to say all chickens don't lay eggs it is just that some are bred to be much better at it.

In our coop.

In terms of color and size there is no difference in taste. It is simply that brown chickens lay brown eggs and white chickens lay white eggs, makes sense right? The one thing, as far as my knowledge goes thus far, that might be slightly different is the shell on a brown egg is slightly harder than that of its white counter part.

The size of the egg depends on the age of the chicken. When a hen is young it is called a pullet and she tends to lay smaller eggs. These eggs we call pullet eggs and are available once our new batch starts laying. They are said to be slightly sweeter than a normal size egg... but I have not proved this yet (too be continued on that section). Jumbo and large eggs come from a mature hen and the super jumbo you will sometimes find in our case are from an old girl who is well ripened in the egg laying game. ;) Still, there is no difference in taste only the size and a possible, if your lucky, double yolk!

Last but not least chickens lay and egg every 26 hours... so our eggs are absolutly laid while you wait! Seeing as we have approximatly 500 chickens the odds of at least one of them laying an egg while you are strolling the farm or shopping for your vegetables is pretty high!

A fun thought to ponder next time you come down and visit us on the farm.