Cleanin' the coop

On Saturday we cleaned out the older girls coop that was filled with shredded paper and we filled it with hay instead.  We'll give you before and after pictures!

Before...

..and After.

Before....

...and after.

And so on..

We were glad to be able to clean the coop again since we've been getting cleaner eggs!

As ya'll know we got our cow....

...and we are in the process of finishing a lean-to for her (12 by 16) .  That'll be on the next post!
Till next time, God Bless!
Caleb and Seth Wassenberg
Co-owners of SRR Egg Factory

Baby chick!

On Sunday we wanted to move the eight chickens (after church) that we got from our neighbor and while we were doing that we heard a, "peep".  Now we knew we had a couple girls brooding so we ran in the chicken coop and saw a baby chicken on the floor!  We were very exited to find our own baby chick!

We think it is a Golden Comet chicken!

We were once again like, "Wow, it's so small!"

But Mr. chicky died.  He wouldn't eat the food we gave him, he would just eat bugs.

The other chickens are doing fine, we have two Buff Orpington roosters of the eight that we got from our neighbor, and the rest are girls, that we know of!

We hope to post Saturday when we clean out the old girls coop!

Till next time,
God Bless!

Caleb and Seth Wassenberg

Co-owners of SRR Egg Factory

Chiken growth.

For the past week we haven't had a lot of stuff going on lately!  Selling the eggs is going on fine, the Lord is really answering prayer!  We're getting around 60-70 eggs a day now and getting only about 2 blue eggs a day and around 5 white eggs a day and the rest are brown eggs!  We are still thinkin' about the mixed dozen, if y'all would like it just leave a comment or email us at: wassfam@aol.com!

Well let's do the interview of the "girls" and see the stages of their growth!

This is the day we got them they were about three days old.

And this is when we moved them to the chicken coop.....about 12 weeks old

and getting older...4 months or so.

when we allowed them to free roam...

older....about 5 months

and when we moved them to their home base for the rest of their lives on pasture.....6 and beyond......

and how they are right now!!

From this...

To this!!

They grow very fast compared to humans!

We hope to hear from ya'll soon!

Till next time , God Bless

Caleb and Seth Wassenberg

Co-owners of SRR Egg Factory

Exciting happenings!

We have some new things happening on the farm!  First we did find the snake....

 He had four eggs in his belly,

and it was also as tall as Seth!

We found him when we were movin' the eggs boxes and he was in one of the cinderblocks!

The girls in the field!

This is what it looked like after we moved the eggs boxes.  We moved the nesting boxes so the chickens wouldn't roost on the tops of them; so far it has been workin'!
We are startin' to sell the eggs now! If y'all look on the price page it is updated again, we just changed a couple things!!  We are going to bring a cooler to our church in our big white van each week and also there is a change box in the cooler so you can make change yourself.

This was the old eggs price sheet....

And this is the new one! (Which will be inside of the change box.)

This is the eggs we brought with us on Sunday!
Our family finally got what we have been looking for a year!
A.........

Cow!  We got her yesterday!  I hope she keeps the chickens company!
Till next time, God Bless!
Caleb and Seth Wassenberg
co-owners of Srr Egg Factory

Update

Well this week we were at Nags Head, North Carolina so we couldn't post but we had a fun time!  We had a friend watch over all the animals for us and while he was gatherin' the eggs he saw a black snake.  Caleb had seen one before but no one else saw it,  and we think that is why we are not gettin' as much eggs then we should so we're hoping to catch it soon!  We have had two of the older Golden Comets broodin' for a couple of weeks so the eggs are gettin' close to hatching!  We also got our first blue eggs while we were at the beach!

We hope to get some more pictures and eggs!

Till next time, God Bless!

Caleb and Seth Wassenberg

Co-owners of SRR Egg Factory

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