The scoop on Really BIG Eggs

This week I got a call from a long-time customer-friend.

“So Charlotte, what’s up the Really BIG Eggs?”

My first thought? How much I appreciate that she, and so many of our customers like you, are also our friends and are comfortable asking questions.

My second thought? What a great question – I bet she’s not the only one wondering “what’s up…”

I mean, really. Duh, Charlotte. We’ve been selling the world’s best regular size eggs for 10 years now.

Where did we suddenly come up with these enormous eggs?

Really big chickens?

Hahaha.

Actually, the Really BIG Eggs are laid by our young hens that are just starting to lay. What?!

It’s part of the fascinating life and lay cycle of a hen – one of those behind-the-scenes glimpses of the real farm.

So, through the eyes of my most favorite ever real-life chicken named Petunia, I’m going to tell you a story.

You can decide whether it’s overly-farmer-nerdy or an I-know-my-farmer-fun-farm-fact 😊

First, as very young hen just starting to stretch her wings in the world, Petunia starts out laying tiny “test eggs”.

They’re adorable but rattle around in a carton wayyyyy too much. Those go into farmer scrambled eggs.

Next, Petunia starts to lay what would be called “small eggs” in the grocery store. They’re about 2/3 the size of one of our regular eggs.

We call them “pullet eggs” and label and sell them separately (currently at the PT Food Co-op).

After this short training period laying the small eggs, Petunia suddenly catapults into laying Really BIG Eggs.

Do not ask me why nature decided this was the best course of events, to jump from small to enormous overnight.

Phrases like “Just Do It” and “Get ‘er Done” spring to mind (many thanks to the sports coaches I’ve known along the way).

Once Petunia triumphs over the feat of laying Really BIG Eggs, she settles into a placid, contented routine of laying regular sized eggs throughout her career as a mature hen.

Much later, as a senior hen, her eggs will start to get slightly bigger again (and, interestingly enough, her egg shell color will lighten).

But never to the truly enormous size of her teenage eggs.

For you visual learners (like me), here’s a chart I made in a nerdy-farmer moment 😉

What’s the take-away from Petunia’s story?

These enormous, beautiful, delicious, mega-globes of nutrition are a seasonal specialty.

Available only while Petunia and her flock-mates are still blossoming into the professional hens they are destined to become.

Click here to get Really BIG Eggs while supplies last.

 If that’s not enough incentive to try them out, I give you this.

These already cool eggs are coming to you straight from the tiny, sweet, surprisingly careful hands of Farmhand Grace.

You see, Farmhand Vera started Kindergarten this year.

I give you permission to say, “What?! How can she be that old already?”

I say it to myself every day.  😢

So, with “the big kids” off to school every morning, Farmhand Grace finds herself without a play mate and has taken an interest in helping me pack eggs.

(This is rather a relief, however brief, to our cats, who were taking the brunt of her need for new companionship.)

It’s actually been pretty fun, and brings back memories of Farmhands Eli and Vera helping me with the eggs.

And you know what? Grace and I are equal on how many eggs we’ve dropped and broken. LOL.

Actually, she might be a score ahead of me.

The last one I dropped, I tried to catch with my knees (because that’s the mom reflex, right?).

Which means I crushed it against the cabinet and I therefore had to wash egg off the wood cabinet, the floor, my pants and my shoes.

The one Grace dropped that day I only had to clean off the floor.

Oh, Petunia and I never answered the question as to why these are only now becoming available after 10 years of One Straw eggs.

That’s because we, your farmers, have been eating them all 😊

As you now know, they’re a super-seasonal specialty. Since we’d only get a few at a time, we just enjoyed them in our own kitchen.

But demand for our delicious eggs has grown and grown (thank you for that!) until now we’re raising 300-400 hens at a time. Really!

So we’re getting WAY more huge eggs than even our egg-loving household can use.

Which means we get to share the fun and uniqueness of these Really BIG Eggs with you.

Now you can eat like a farmer, too.

In gratitude,

Charlotte & Petunia (and Farmhand Grace)

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