Rainbow of Eggs

See The Difference?

The picture to the right shows 3 eggs that have been cracked into the same porcelain dish. No alterations were made to the colors of this photo.

The palest yolk (bottom left) came from a non-organic egg from a grocery store. The other pale yolk (bottom right) came from a cage free certified organic egg purchased at an area food co-op. Finally, the bright orange yolk in the top of the photograph came from an egg laid by one of our hens.

The bright color of their yolks is a testament to the high quality forage diet of our birds and the resulting high vitamin content of their eggs.

The yolks are always their brightest at the peak of the summer grazing season.

Here’s to delicious AND nutritious!

Boone, one of our Great Pyrenees guardian dogs, keeps a watchful eye on his hens

A Buff Orpington hitches a ride

“Monkey” eyeballs the camera

Welcome to our Egg Page

We raise a colorful assortment of hens –both production and heritage breeds– who lay a colorful assortment of eggs ranging from pale blue to olive green, and bright white to deep brown.

Our hens have unlimited access to the outdoors, where they are free to roam their pastures under the watchful eyes and ears of our gentle livestock guardian dogs, Boone and Buttercup. The chickens’ natural diet of grass and insects is supplemented daily with locally purchased, nutritionally balanced feed and minerals to make sure that all of their nutritional needs are met.

In the winter the hens are free to roam, and have access to heat lamps in the barn. They are fed a nutritionally balanced layer mash with organic kelp, apples and other fruits and veggies.

Many of our hens have names. They are never caged, supplemented with hormones, de-beaked or otherwise mutilated. They lead happy, healthy lives and freely engage in their natural chicken behaviors, such as foraging, scratching, dust-bathing and perching.

Our Hens lay a delightful array of colored eggs

From time to time one of our hens will surprise us with one of these monsters! That great big egg is a double-yolker, shown next to a regular sized egg for comparison.