We love our home grown eggs and hope you will, too! When you open a carton of our delicious pastured eggs you will see that our eggs come in many sizes, shapes and even color. Most of the eggs are different shades of brown. Sometime they have spots, bumps & even wrinkles. And every once in a while you may find a blue green egg from one of our Americana chickens.
We collect eggs every day and they are all washed & checked for cracks. Since we have roosters (who help protect the hen), many of our eggs are fertilized but this makes no difference in the freshness and taste. Many people believe that a red blood spot on the yolk means the egg was fertilized… this is incorrect. If you want to know if the egg was fertile, you can look for a pale white spot on the yolk. If this spot is an irregular shape, the egg was not fertile. If this white spot is perfectly round, it is called a Blastoderm and shows that the egg was fertilized. On a very rare occasion, you may find an egg that has begun to change inside. That is why it is always a good idea to break an egg into a bowl before adding it you your recipe.
Eggs can be sold anytime within 21 days and are considered fresh. They can be safely kept for weeks at home after that. Most store bought eggs are a week or two old. Our eggs will be coming to you a day or two old. They are wonderful but if you are hard boiling farm fresh eggs, you will find them a bit difficult to peel. Salt added to the boiling water can help a little but this is the nature of truly fresh eggs. If you are planning to make deviled eggs or something similar for a meal, plan ahead and allow your eggs to stay in the frig for at least a week.
Nutritional Note: Chickens are omnivores and thrive on grain, insects, worms, grubs & anything else they can find to eat. Because they are pastured and get to eat all these good things, our eggs contain more monounsaturated fats, vitamin A & E, Omega-3, folic acid, lutein & beta-carotene then “industrialized” eggs. We also do not regularly treat our chickens with antibiotics or other medications which is common practice for “industrialized” egg farms. .
We collect eggs every day and they are all washed & checked for cracks. Since we have roosters (who help protect the hen), many of our eggs are fertilized but this makes no difference in the freshness and taste. Many people believe that a red blood spot on the yolk means the egg was fertilized… this is incorrect. If you want to know if the egg was fertile, you can look for a pale white spot on the yolk. If this spot is an irregular shape, the egg was not fertile. If this white spot is perfectly round, it is called a Blastoderm and shows that the egg was fertilized. On a very rare occasion, you may find an egg that has begun to change inside. That is why it is always a good idea to break an egg into a bowl before adding it you your recipe.
Eggs can be sold anytime within 21 days and are considered fresh. They can be safely kept for weeks at home after that. Most store bought eggs are a week or two old. Our eggs will be coming to you a day or two old. They are wonderful but if you are hard boiling farm fresh eggs, you will find them a bit difficult to peel. Salt added to the boiling water can help a little but this is the nature of truly fresh eggs. If you are planning to make deviled eggs or something similar for a meal, plan ahead and allow your eggs to stay in the frig for at least a week.
Nutritional Note: Chickens are omnivores and thrive on grain, insects, worms, grubs & anything else they can find to eat. Because they are pastured and get to eat all these good things, our eggs contain more monounsaturated fats, vitamin A & E, Omega-3, folic acid, lutein & beta-carotene then “industrialized” eggs. We also do not regularly treat our chickens with antibiotics or other medications which is common practice for “industrialized” egg farms. .
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