Feb 23, 2025

Let’s talk a bit about eggs. I was chatting with a fellow chicken raiser the other day and she was saying how she has upped her egg prices from $4 to $6 a dozen because her eggs are “organic”. I have to admit I was a bit taken back by this statement because while we only feed our girls lay pellets from the local feed mill and they get hay to peck around in in the winter and they are getting grass and bugs in the nice weather, I would never classify them as “organic.”

Our chickens eat basically the same diet as our friends chickens. We both feed our chickens table scraps. To ME, that makes all the difference in the world. I can’t tell you that our foods that we eat are organic. She swears it doesn’t matter, that its “just scraps”. I say it matters a lot because anything a chicken eats goes into producing their eggs. That’s like saying “my tea is sugar free because I added honey, not sugar.” Always know your food sources if you want to eat truly organic. Ask questions.

When your shopping for eggs in the store, know terms. Pasture raised only means that chickens must be allowed to go outside. It doesn’t mean they are happily running around in field pulling worms and scratching big patches of dirt. Cage free means chickens cannot be kept in cages. These chickens are still often kept packed into buildings were they have to fight to get to food and water.

Buying eggs from a local farmer is always your best option if its available to you. You often get better prices, tastier eggs too. We have kept the same egg prices since we started selling eggs. Why? Because we believe that sharing a good quality egg to our neighbors and friends is more important than padding our pockets. We need to cover our feed costs and expenses but once that it done, we just want others to share in the joy of what our pretty girls have shared with us.