Eggs

Our eggs are incredibly delicious. We often let our chickens free-range, giving them the opportunity to find their own food in our yard and surrounding forest. This tends to produce eggs with a very orange yolk and tough shell. Research suggests this may make the eggs better for you with more vitamins, minerals, and omega-3 fatty acids.

We sell our eggs for $7 a dozen. Customers can get a $1 discount for returning used clean cartons and another $1 discount for returning the rinsed eggshells in a provided container. Currently we also have some young chickens producing blue eggs which we're selling for another $1 discount. Contact us at eggs@royalblueroosterfarm.com to arrange for purchase. We prefer cash when you pick up the eggs. We also accept Venmo or PayPal @RoyalBlueRoosterFarm.

We welcome anyone's egg cartons for re-use as a great way to be sustainable. Egg cartons cost us $1 each, so we greatly prefer to re-use when we can, and pass the savings on to you.

About our Chickens

Our four Black, Red, and Amber Star hens lay large and extra-large brown eggs. They were purchased as day-old chicks from O'Connor Hardware. The Black, June, is our oldest hen at nearly four years old, still laying strong, but her sisters recently passed away, we think mostly from old age. Her Red younger sister, Floppy, is two years old and tried to raise some babies last year, but the rooster was gone so she had no viable eggs to sit on. The three Amber Star's are also two years old, one of whom we've named Perky as she is very engaging and inquisitive whenever we're around. She particularly likes to give your leg a little peck every time you go into the coop to remind you she's here and needs attention.

A Buff Orpington, named Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and her sister a Light Bhrama, came to us as day-old chicks from Maxwell's in Chelmsford two years ago. These two tend to lay slightly lighter colored brown eggs, but both are often Jumbo sized. Sadly they originally had four sisters, all of whom were taken by coyotes. Buffy had a foot infection this past summer brought on by all the rain, but with some careful antibiotic treatment where she had to wear a little bootie made of cotton and medical tape she got over it splendidly.

We've also have six Barred Holland hens from a special breeder in Louisiana who sent us fertilized eggs for us to hatch three years ago. They lay large white eggs, but concentrate their egg laying in the spring and summer so we don't get many white eggs in the winter. Barred Holland chickens are a critically endangered breed that was originally developed from breeding Barred Plymouth Rocks with some hens from the Netherlands at Rutgers University in the 1930s to create a robust dual-purpose breed that laid white eggs (unlikle the Barred Plymouth Rock who lays brown eggs). You can read more about them at the Livestock Conservancy. Two years ago, one of the hens, BlueBell, sat on and hatched her own eggs from our former rooster, Sully. So two of the six girls are her daughters. Sully had to go when he started getting too aggressive with everyone. We kept his two sons for a while, but one got really nasty towards the other and had to go too. Then the last remaining rooster started pulling all the feathers off all the hens and had to go as well. So, unfortunately we won't be breeding any more Barred Holland Chickens.

This past summer we got a new breed, the Whiting True Blue. A total of 21 birds, in a variety of colors and patterns from black to white with grey and brown and gold intermixed. Dr. Whiting bred them using traditional techniques to create a breed that had fancy rooster tails so he could make fly fishing lures from them. While he was working on that he realized he could select for egg color as well, and so the birds produce a variety of beautiful feathers, but all only lay blue eggs. Three of the 21 turned out to be roosters, who we've named Gandalf the White & Grey, Sauron the Black, and Strider the Grey and Brown. We may have mis-named Gandalf, he seems to be in-league with Sauron, and the two of them are starting to get aggressive; we're hoping we can teach them not to be that way as they are beautiful birds that we'd like to keep for breeding. The hens are just now old enough to start laying so they are producing medium sized wonderful blue eggs, which will eventually grow to be normal large eggs as the hens get older. Two of the young pullets did not survive the growing up process, so we've got 16 of them left, and regularly get 14 eggs from them even in the middle of winter! One brown one was attacked by a coyote this past fall, barely survived, and lost all her tail feathers. We've named her Lucky! (with the exclamation point).

Each hen will lay up to one egg per day. Currently we have 16 blue layers, 6 white layers, and 6 brown layers. The eggs are pasture raised, gathered daily, but not certified organic. We like to think the welfare of the animals that produce our food is important, and these hens are definitely pampered and fussed over till they are as happy as they can possibly be.

The chickens sleep in a secure coop we call the Coop De-Ville. During the day they play in two 10x40' pens that are covered in grape vines for shade and protection from the local predators (foxes, coyotes, and hawks). Sadly, we have lost quite a few chickens to hawks and coyotes. As a result, they only free range anymore if there is a person and the dog outside keeping an eye on them. The dog by himself is not enough to deter the coyotes, unfortunately.

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