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BROWN CHICKEN EGGS

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Have you ever tasted a fresh egg?

Not "fresh" according to the date stamp at the grocery store. We mean Fresh!

How do you know if an egg is fresh? Try cracking one of our eggs on a flat surface and a grocery store egg right next to it. See how round and upright the yolk is on our egg, compared to the flat grocery egg? And look at the bright yellow of our yolk. Now that's a fresh egg! If not convinced by these pseudo-scientific tests, then do a taste test. Then it will be obvious!

You Need to Try our Free Range Eggs!

You can find our farm fresh eggs at several places:

At the farm (directions on Contact Us page)
The Produce Station, Ann Arbor, MI	Chelsea Farmers' Market, Chelsea, MI (May-Oct)
New Chelsea Market, Chelsea, MI	Plymouth Farmers' Market, Plymouth, MI (May-Oct)

Plenty of Eggs Year Round!

Our 2010 price for Free Range Brown Chicken Eggs is $3.75 / dozen (or $3.25 when you come and pickup at the farm).

What size are our eggs? All Sizes!

We give you what the chickens give us!

We use several varieties of laying hens to produce our fresh brown chicken eggs. At any given time, you'll see any of the following scratching and clucking around the farm: Black Australorp, Rhode Island Red, Silver Laced & Columbian Wyandotte, Buff Orpington and Barred Rock

“I won’t use any other eggs than yours to bake with.”

“Your eggs just taste better.”

NEWS FROM THE FARM

We are always looking for new ways to bring you quality, fresh, good-tasting eggs along with a consistent year-round supply.

Our girls enjoying the out-of-doors

When the weather warms up, our layers are put outside in the sheep & goat pasture. They are housed in our SLOW Wagon: "Summer Layers' Outdoor Wagon".

What you're looking at is an old farm wagon with the coop built atop of it. We are able to flip up panels on the outside and reach into nest boxes for the eggs. The chickens wander down a ramp at their leisure. The wagon is moved around the pasture periodically and each time a moveable electric fence surrounding the wagon (for predator protection) is moved with it. We've heard of others using this type of system successfully and wanted to give it a try. Our girls enjoy the benefits of sun, fresh air, and grass and bugs to munch on!

And it works! Our customers are thrilled with the quality of the eggs. One research study compared free range eggs to commercial ones and found that the free range ones had:

	1/3 less cholesterol
	1/4 less saturated fat
	2/3 more vitamin A
	2 times more omega-3 fatty acids
	7 times more beta carotene

Now, we haven't had our eggs scientifically analyzed. But you don't need fancy tests to know what looks & tastes good! And this way of raising the birds just feels right.

We over-winter our girls in our hoophouse. The chickens have the run of the floor space while the rabbit cages will be suspended from the rafters of the house. Both will have the advantage of being outside in the fresh air, yet still protected from predators.

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