FREE-RANGE EGGS, really !
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Our hens free-range out on large grass pastures, they are not confined in a barn or cage.
We never use herbicides, pesticides or fungicides on our hens or on their pasture.
We never use oil coatings, pasteurization or detergent baths on our eggs.
Our lamb and eggs are produced by breeds listed with the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy. For more information visit http://www.albc-usa.org/cpl/wtchlist.html
Eggs are $4.50 per dozen $10.00 per flat (2.5 dz.) $56.20 per case (15 dz.) This is about $2.50 per pound for an excellent, clean source of protein, vitamins and minerals.
Don't forget to try our lamb breakfast sausage with your eggs ! Visit our lamb page.
No medications No antibiotics No
pesticides No cloned animals
No vaccinations No hormones No cages
No de-beaking No preservatives No
pasteurization No detergent baths
No meat, poultry or meat by-products are fed.
Fresh air, sunshine and exercise. Roosters kept with hens. We
raise our own layers from chicks.
Environmentally responsible growers and responsible predator control
Direct producer/consumer relationship. You know how your eggs are
produced. The only thing between you and the hen, is us!
Here
are photos of the eggmobile.
It is a portable chicken house that lets the hens range all day
and then come home to roost in comfort and security for the night. When
new pasture is needed, we pull the hens to a new location.
Raising hens out on pasture is expensive and time consuming. They run around and exercise, this lowers egg production, fewer, but better eggs ! They live in the real world of seasonal weather - this effects egg production, too. They eat grass, clover and insects that produce better eggs.
Are you aware that real eggs are seasonal ? Click to learn more.
Our free-range eggs are an excellent source of clean protein as well as vitamins and trace minerals. Our hens enjoy a great life so they can produce the most nutritious eggs for you.
Our "eggmobile" provides a portable home for the hens on pasture. We move the eggmobile to provide fresh, clean pasture for the chickens. The eggmobile provides shelter, nests and a place for the hens to roost at night, during the day, hens are free to roam the pasture. Our livestock guardian dogs protect the hens from predation. Molly and Anne are indispensable to the production of eggs in a pasture-park setting. They work all day to ward off the low flying, chicken-eyeing, Red-tailed hawks and all night to keep the coyotes hunting elsewhere.
Eggs are gaining new respect from nutritionists, partly for their abundance of two carotenes --- lutein and zeaxanthin. These antioxidant vitamins are essential for the protection of the macula, an area of the retina that provides our best central vision. Eggs are the richest known source. "Macular degeneration," the term for damage to this area of the retina, is the leading cause of blindness in people over 55 years of age. Lutein and zeaxanthin protect the macula from the destructive effects of light. The deeper the yellow-orange color of yolks, the more lutein and zeaxanthin they contain and the more eye-protection they offer.
There is also new evidence linking lutein and zeaxanthin with a lower risk of colon cancer. According to a recent study, "Of all the carotenoids investigated, only lutein and zeaxanthin showed a protective effect against colon cancer, with an enhanced effect in younger people."
(Slattery, M. L., Benson, J., Curtin, K., Ma, K. N., Schaeffer, D., and Potter, J. D. (2000). Am J Clin Nutr 71, 575-82.)
Eating eggs does not appear to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease or stroke.
Cutting back on egg consumption has been widely recommended as a way to lower blood cholesterol levels and prevent coronary heart disease. Is this valid advice? Recently, researchers took a close look at the egg-eating habits and heart health of 118,000 men and women. The scientists reported that "we found no evidence of an overall significant association between egg consumption and risk of CHD [coronary heart disease] in either men or women." In fact, they found that people who ate from 5 to 6 eggs per week had a lower risk of heart disease than those who ate less than one egg per week. (Hu, F. B., M. J. Stampfer, et al. (1999). "A prospective study of egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease in men and women." JAMA 281(15): 1387-94.)
One wonders what the scientists would find if they looked at the heart health of those lucky people who eat eggs from pastured hens?