Eggs

We have put the prices on the eggs!  $2.00 for the pullet white and brown eggs and $2.25 for the blue and green eggs.  ( We're not gettin' any blue and green eggs right now but should be comin' soon!)  We are gettin' more eggs every day.  We used to have 5-7 eggs a day now we are gettin' around 10-15 eggs a day, not enough to sell yet (we eat a lot!) but gettin' close!!

The pullet eggs!

We let the girls out every day to eat bugs and grass on Dads pasture!

Caleb was workin' with dad the day we took pics of um' so Seth was there with my sister Kimber takin' pictures and refillin' the waterers.

They always crowd around us when we come over to do anything!

Nestin'!

And for the last pics of the day....

We hope to start sellin' the eggs soon!

Till next time, God Bless!

Caleb and Seth Wassenberg

Co-owners of Srr Egg Facory

Update on prices and eggs

Today we did some calculating and haven't exactly figured out the prices but know what we're lookin' at!  We will put up the prices on the eggs prices either this week or next week!  As y'all know we've been getting brown eggs and were are now getting a couple White Eggs a day too!!

A Pullet Egg!!

A white and a brown pullet egg!

Now as you know the pullet egg is the very first year of layin' for the chickens and that is why they are so small!  The second year is the peak year for the chickens when the eggs are around twice the size of a pullet egg.  Every year after that the egg production goes down!  

One day we took two of our eggs, one a pullet egg and the other one from the older girls (!) which was twice as big, and we cracked both of 'um in a glass bowl.

 We wanted to see if there was a difference in the pasture raised and non pastured raised (even though they are both all natural).  What you want is the yolk to be sitting up out of the white and the yolk dark yellow, preferably orange colored, and you want the whole egg to be firm and keep its shape.  When you buy eggs from the store with the purpose of making fried eggs you don't want your egg to run everywhere, right!? This is what does happen to your egg when it is Non-pasture-raised and GMO (even if it is all-natural!).  You would prefer your egg to keep a definite shape and taste delicious. When you have a pastured raised and non GMO egg it holds these qualities!!

Can you tell the difference?!  The right bowl is the older girls egg and non-pastured, is sitting down and not above the white, and the left egg is the pullet egg, pastured, sittin up with most of the yolk out of the white and a darker color!  We even shook both of the bowls to see if there was a difference in white firmness and the pullet egg, though smaller, was firmer than the older girls egg!  And we can't lie...... it definitely tastes better and more healthy for you!! 

  I hope y'all learned something today, like we did, on the difference on the eggs! There is no difference in a white egg to a brown egg! Again, we will post the egg prices either this week or next week!  If y'all would like to help us please tell us what you think would be a fair price and we will pray and take all suggestions into account.  Thanks for your help in advance :)
Till next time, God Bless!
Caleb and Seth Wassenberg
Co-owners of SRR Egg Factory

Guess What??!!

Well when we gathered the eggs and filled waterers and checked on the chickens a couple of days ago, and while we were gathering the eggs we saw our first pullet egg!!  They are supposed to start laying in late August or early September!  We have no idea what type of chicken layed it (we think it is a Sex Link) but I'll show y'all a pic of it!

Which one do you think is the pullet egg?!

The left egg is one of the older girls eggs compared to the pullet egg!

To the younger chickens!

Good job Girls!

Seth's favorite type of  chickens are the Americauna.

Caleb's favorite type of chickens that the have are the Golden Laced Wyndottes and the Barred Rocks.

We are now getting around three eggs a day!  Next week we hopefully going to put the prices on the eggs!!

Tilll next time, God Bless!

Caleb and Seth Wassenberg

Co-owners of Srr Egg Factory  

What they used to look like!  They are so small!!

Small chickens

Well the eight younger chickens are growing big and strong!  We moved most of the older chickens to where the eight younger chickens and are going to try if we can try to brood some!  One girl is laying on them right now.  We put one of the guys over with them to keep them company :)

 Hang'n' together.....

 I like how the Buff Orpingtons look and how they always turn there head and look at you!

Some of the older girls. (Composed of Sex Links and Buff Orpingtons!)

For some reason the eight younger chickens always stay together!

I finally figured out what type the two black chickens are!  They are Black Australorps!
Now I'll tell you the secret name we call the chickens when we go to see them and to gather eggs!  Can you guess?!  Girls!!  We don't know how we got to calling them "girls", so every time we go to see them we say,  "Here girls!"
Caleb and Seth Wassenberg
Co-owners of SRR Egg Factory

LIttle chicks

This time we are going to do the little chickens since we did the big chickens before! The are very big compared to what they used to be!  So Kimber came and to some pictures of e'm.

A buff Orpington cruisin'!

That's all of the eight of 'em staying together, I think they were dust bathing before!

A Barred Rock and a Buff Orpington!  I think that the two Buff Orpington we have are guys!

A Brown Leghorn. (Caleb was holding it)

Hangin' around!  We don't know exactlty what type the black one is but we hope to find out soon!

Well this was a pretty short post but we hope y'all enjoyed it!  Pretty soon we'll get the prices on the blog!
Till next time, God Bless!
Caleb and Seth Wassenberg
Co-owners of Srr Egg Factory

Big Chickens

Well we decided that we would do the bigger chickens instead of the smaller chicks!  The bigger chickens are doing well and we usually have to fill their water every day.  We probably have 5 male chickens that we have kept. Again, my sister Kimber took pictures for us!  Thanks Kimber!!

This is the hole coop.  The white net looking thing around the coop (if you can see it!) is electric poultry fence from Premier 1.  Dad has 4 strands of wire around the whole field.

 This is behind the egg nests. This is supposed to be a roosting place so they can have somewhere to roost at night even the younger chickens don't have exactly the idea to roost there yet while the older chickens know where to roost!!

Now we have 2 Buff Orpington roosters and 3 frizzles (that is what everybody calls them in our family, we don't exactly know what type they are!) .  This is one of the Orpingtons guys!

The 2 white and black chickens are 2 "frizzles"!

Eating....

One of dads older chickens.

Chickens underneath the roosts'.

Eggs from Dad's 12 older chickens that are laying.

Seth was with Kimber as she was taking pictures. Caleb was working with Daddy that day!

Moving chicks to their new home

Well we're glad that we could post again!  We moved the chickens into their new home a couple of days ago!!  So as most of y'all know we had the 95 chickens in the coop closest to our house, and we kept most of them in the coop that morning so it would be easier to get the chickens when we were ready to transfer them (We close the hatch at night and then open the hatch in the morning) ! 

We put the chickens in our dad's trailer with a tarp on top.

We had a tub that we put the chickens in and then we put it on our wagon and wheeled it over to the trailer!

The placing of the tub.

The chickens in the trailer.

The white thing that looks like a a green house (which it is!) we built with a friend of ours last year for the chickens.

This is the inside of the chicken coop.  The big white thing in the middle of the coop (there is another one behind it) is a nesting box for them to lay their eggs in. (Dad had around 13 older chickens that have been in the coop for a while and we are getting around 10 eggs a day!) 

Daddy and I (Caleb) are in the front of the trailer trying to get the chickens out.

And the Marines came down to the beach.......

Some of them inspecting their new home.

Caleb coming out of the trailer.

Inspecting for insectoids.

Caleb likes the tails of these chickens and he calls them "Indian feathers"!

We had a 30 gallon galvanized can that was filled with ash (from are Central broiler) and Dad emptied it and we put around 4 bags of feed in so we could use it as a container to hold the food and it would be easier for us to get the feed and not feed the field mice.

Getting the bags of feed.

Pouring the feed in.

One of Dad's Buff Orpington hen sittin' and relaxin' !

We hope y'all had a good time lookin' it the pics of the chickens!  Sorry for posting late!

Till next time, God Bless!

Caleb and Seth Wassenberg

Co-owner of SRR Egg Factory