Little Sprouts leaps into the Egg Business!

Our plans to enter a consistent egg business just got moved up yet again.

First, we decided to start an egg business with about 70 cross breeds we hatched ourselves. Those birds are now just about old enough to start laying eggs any time.

Second, we decided that would not be enough eggs for us. You can get 3 eggs a day from every four chickens as a rule,  and we wanted more than 70 chickens could provide.

So third, we ordered about 200 sussox chicks. We built the movable coop as you will find on other blog posts. Those birds are now about 6 weeks old. They will be laying next spring.

Now... the plans got moved up again. In addition to the 70 or so cross breeds, and the 200 sussox, we found an opportunity to take on 10 or so laying golden sexlink hens. There is another local farmer that is temporarily going out of the egg business for personal reasons, and they needed to pass their hens on to another farm. We decided to take them in .

So.. Little Sprouts Farm will officially be in the chicken egg business on a regular basis starting sometime next week. We will immediately have 6 to 8 dozen eggs per day. That will increase to about 20 to 25 dozen eggs a day  by next spring.  These will all be pastured, free range chickens supplemented with soy free and corn free feed.

This winter we will be completing our bug farm, the target being to raise about 10,000 to 20,000 mealworms per month to feed the birds, plus an unknown amount of crickets.  That extra pr otein during the winter combined with the soy free / corn free feed should produce the absolute best eggs money can buy.

So, stay tuned! This will be a learning experience.

We will be offering the eggs for sale off farm, at pick up points, and through a new home delivery route. If you are interested in a regular supply of healthy pastured eggs this winter, go ahead and send us an email at littlesprouts@salchfamily.org and let us know where you are and how many you are interested in. We will be working on the details this week.