How we're handling the demand for free-range eggs...

Lately we've been barely keeping up with the demand for our eggs, and sometimes we run out at the farmers market on Saturdays.  Customers tell us these eggs taste so much better than the ones they buy in the store!

One of the things we've discovered is that a lot of eggs are being laid out in the grass.  You'll get some of that, but we found a lot more than we realized.  Chickens will wait in line for their turn in a nesting box to lay their eggs, but apparently we have too many chickens for the number of nesting boxes we have, and they get tired of waiting!  When the eggs are laid out in the pasture, we don't sell them because we have no idea how long they've been there.  Therefore, we've had quite a lot of eggs that we can't sell.

Anyway, we've remedied that now...we've added a second egg-mobile - so now the girls can spread out and enjoy more spacious quarters!

Here's a pic from a previous year to show how the hens line up to wait for their turn...

Here's the added eggmoble - another repurposed old truck box.