Fox!

We are so sorry we have not posted for a long time.  It has been a little bit busy around here, but now we have time!  We had a fox eat about 60 of our chickens in the last couple of months.  One morning Hannah and Kimber were running and they looked over to the field and saw the fox chasing the chickens around in circles.  So the girls ran into the field and chased  the fox away.  Then they ran to the house and got me and Caleb up.  So we ran to the field to see if we could find it, but we didn't.  Then a month or so later dad went to northern Virgina to work and spent the night at his mom's house.  In the middle of the night mom woke up and heard a high pitch scream.  At first mom thought it was one of her children but it was a fox.  If you want to hear it, click here.  A few weeks later one of our friends was hunting on our property and saw the fox,  and disposed of it.  It had fresh chicken for breakfast but we don't want to explain how we know that. :)   We thought the chickens were safe until we heard the same sound again so we moved the chickens to the coop at our house.Thank you for reading... we will try to post more often. Have a blessed week!

Caleb and Seth Wassenberg
Co-owners of SRR Eggs      

Meet Sandy

Our cow Halle was pregnant and had her calf this morning October 29.  Here is a pic: 

For more updates go to http://solidrockranchupdates.blogspot.com/ 

Caleb and Seth Wassenberg
Co-owners of SRR Eggs

Turkeys at two months & recent addition(s)

In the past two months the turkeys have grown alot! They now look like they might live up to their name- Mammoth Bronze Turkey! They're roaming around in the old pen and are having a great time (especially since the grass has grown back!).  We also were recently given three bantam roosters and put them in the pen with our turkeys. They are so small in comparison! I thought you all might want to see some pictures of them so one of our sisters went out and got some pictures for the blog! 

Here is what the turkeys looked like when we first got them:

Awwww!

So cute...for that time. :)

Here is what they look like now:

Wow, right!

 Big...and ugly. ;)

 If you're wondering what the middle turkey is doing....it is stretching it's wing and right leg. :)

These are the (much smaller) roosters that we were given:

They look so funny...strutting their (lack of) stuff!

 "When the grass is up to your waist...you're small." ;)
They are probably at their full grown size (the roosters) and the turkeys are probably only about 1/2 the size they will be. : 0  Big difference!

 This is a butterfly that my sister just had to take a picture of.

...Also this sunflower that rests in our back-yard...

:)

Other than that we have had a lot of new customers with demands for large amounts of eggs- That is a praise and a prayer request.  Thank the Lord that we have been able to sell what He has provided!  Pray that we will be able to provide more eggs with the same great quality, and that the Lord will show us what we are supposed to do with these new opportunities.  Thank you for reading and have a blessed week!

Caleb and Seth Wassenberg
Co-owners of SRR Eggs

New addition

We've been planning to get turkeys (for Thanksgiving) and ducks (to sell their eggs) awhile ago, so dad finally got some Thanksgiving dinner turkeys.  He got three Mammoth Bronze turkeys!

If I remember correctly they grow up to 40 lbs!

They have longer necks then chickens do!

For some reason, they sleep alot more the chicks!

We also have processed 8 of our older girls.  They were really good! :) 
The Lord has blessed the selling of all our eggs- we are incredibly blessed!

Till next time, God Bless,
Caleb and Seth Wassenberg
Co-owners of SRR Eggs

End of Sale

We have officially sold all the eggs we needed to sell!  We have sold about 20 girls to lower our egg production down and we are now staying on top of selling them.

Thank  you for your buisness!

Till next time, God Bless!

Caleb and Seth Wassenberg

Co-owners of SRR Eggs

Blessed Egg Production SALE

As a result of the abundance of eggs our hens are giving us, we are having a one week sale*!

Each dozen is on sale half price for $1.50!

I can almost promise you that there are no other prices as low for the quality of eggs you get from us. 

 Their distinct yolk color and flavor make all the difference to the customers who buy them and they never want to go back!

So please stock up your refrigerators for the month (they will last in your refrigerator for at least a month), and enjoy the sale while it lasts!

God bless!

Caleb & Seth Wassenberg

Co-Owners of Solid Rock Ranch Eggs

*Sale lasts until Saturday, April  21, 2012

Changes

If you haven't noticed we have changed our blog name and address!
Our new address is www.srreggs.blogspot.com and our revised name is Solid Rock Ranch Eggs.  We have completed our new pamphlets, full of "eggcellent" information about our healthy pasture-raised eggs. We would like to thank all those who support us and help spread the news of our great tasting and nutritious eggs.  The blog has been updated with the pricing and delivery information that is on our pamphlet.  Take some time to look around at the new things going on!

Thank you for reading and God bless!

Caleb & Seth Wassenberg

Co-Owners of Solid Rock Ranch Eggs 

Our New Lean-to

We've have been incredibly busy lately, which is why we haven't been posting!  We'll try to be more on time now!  We are in the process of making egg pamphlets that will have a nice amount of information on what makes our eggs different, currently.

  We are also now selling eggs in 18 packs for $4.00.
The 50 new chickens have been great!  We have been getting around 5 (at the very least-the Lord has been blessing us alot) dozen eggs a day, so we have a ton (seriously) of eggs to sell.  It would be great if you could let us know of anyone that needs eggs!

  Well, you may be wondering what the post name is all about..... we connected a lean-to to the older girls coop!

We finished it last Saturday and the girls are lovin' it!!

For all y'all building people, we dug 2 holes 2' deep, put posts in, and then stamped and leveled the earth around it. Then we attached the roof's side boards on, put boards perpendicular over the first ones, then overlapped the metal sheets side-by-side, and then screwed them in!

Dad helping Seth put the screws in.

Seth had to climb on the roof to put the screws in!

He likes his drill- watch out ;)!

We had 2 extra nesting houses, so we painted one (more like "threw" paint on it!),  let it dry, and put it under the lean-to!

The girls liked to watch us and eat!

We hope to move the 50 new girls to the pasture soon! 
Also, my sister was looking up the benefits of pastured raised eggs and found out how you can tell if the egg is fresh or not.  If the the egg white is cloudy, it is fresh, and the white will be clearer the older the egg gets!  There will probably be more on that subject in our "coming soon" egg pamphlets.

Till next time, God bless!

Caleb and Seth Wassenberg

Co-owners of SRR Egg Factory

New chickens!

We haven't had time to post recently because we are very busy. Sorry!  So..... we have decided to get the chickens!  We got 50 Black Australorps that were already laying.  We got them last week and we're getting about 2 dozen eggs a day!

 The Black Australorps are all black and the ones that aren't are the older girls.  We also used a wagon as a chicken feeder, so it's a move around feeder!

Very black!!

The guys are always watching us.

And as always there was a chicken checking us out....

a older girl......

and a younger one!!

They have been very good chickens so far and we're glad we got them!

Till next time, God Bless!

Caleb and Seth Wassenberg

Co-owners of SRR Egg Factory

Eggs

We have figured out what has been eating our girls.  It's probably a hawk.  Every now and then we see a Red-tailed hawk flyin' by!  We also figured out that when there was only about 30 girls in the coop that one night,  that they got freaked out and most of them were sleeping in the woods!   They have come back now but we are still seein' feather spots.

We're thinking of getting some pullets (ready to lay girls) some time soon to keep up with the demand!  Were praying about it.

Now you may be wondering what the post name is for.  So we'll be nice and tell ya'!!  Have you ever seen a miniature egg before?  We got one when Caleb was gatherin'!

Now, the egg on the left  is not a big egg, it is a normal sized one.

Usually the small egg is just egg white and just a dot for a yoke!

We have gotten several of this egg size before.

Hope ya'll enjoyed this post!
Till next time, God Bless!
Caleb and Seth Wassenberg
Co-owners of SRR Egg Factory