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Gourmet Pasture EggsChelsey’s Eggs come to you, from our free ranging pastured hens.
The hens are rotated on fresh pastures to provide you with an exceptional egg with a deep bright yolk created from the bugs and forages they dig and scratching for. The barn and pastures are secured by predator proof fencing, and our pasture area greatly exceeds the requirement for the label "pasture" provided by the USDA, with a maximum distance of 400 feet for the hens to walk to graze forages. This arrangement makes the forages easily accessible to the hens. We rotate our grassfed beef cattle thru the same pastures and the hens enjoy the protection and company of the cattle. Our hens are provided with a complete ration formulated from NON GMO ingredients. |
We are blessed in our area to have over 5,000 acres of NON GMO grain raised by local farmers and delivered to our local feed mill.
We greatly appreciate the efforts of our local farmers and Bagdad Roller Mill for providing us this outstanding feed for our hens. |
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Araucana Hens lay green eggs found in our egg cartons.
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Chelsey’s Egg Story:
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We began raising our own chicks and would read to them while sitting among the chicks. We began by selling eggs at church and our business expanded when Lanai Restaurant in Louisville contacted us for eggs. It was a little time consuming, but Mom agreed to deliver our eggs to the restaurant. We learned from the chefs just how special eggs raised on pasture were. We moved our hens to remodeled cattle trailers that we moved around the farm with their nest and roost inside the trailer. It was not soon after this that Whole Foods came to Louisville and we walked into the store hoping to make a sale. To our surprise, Ann, the dairy buyer, was looking for a local egg and she helped us fill out the paperwork. By this time we were in middle school, washing and candling all of our eggs by hand while listening to the “Dixie Chicks” on the radio.
Once we got into Whole Foods we got the idea to raise our hens in movable 30 x 50 hoop houses. We mounted roost on the inside of the barn and had the nesting boxes on skids so that we could pull the hoop house across our pastures with a tractor. Our friends thought we were a little weird, but we enjoyed taking the eggs to Louisville and gathering up our egg money. At this time lots of the stores paid us in cash that we stashed in a box. We finally entered High School and joined FFA (Future Farmers of America). FFA has a project, Supervised Agricultural Experience, where you keep records on your project and document all of the things that you have learned including profit and loss. This introduced us to the business world and we quickly adopted quickbooks as our record keeper. We both competed on the FFA National level with our egg business.
Jared was named the National FFA SAE Poultry Winner in 2011 and Chelsey was named the 2012 National FFA Star in Agribusiness. In addition, the egg business has paid for our college tuition in addition to earning us scholarships. Chelsey won the National scholarship “Girls Going Places” and Jared won the National NFIB Entrepreneurial scholarship.
Chelsey graduated from the University of Kentucky, December, 2015 with a B.S in Sustainable Agriculture and Jared will graduate from EKU, Spring, 2016 with a degree in Agriculture Business with a Minor in entrepreneurship from the Business School.
Once we got into Whole Foods we got the idea to raise our hens in movable 30 x 50 hoop houses. We mounted roost on the inside of the barn and had the nesting boxes on skids so that we could pull the hoop house across our pastures with a tractor. Our friends thought we were a little weird, but we enjoyed taking the eggs to Louisville and gathering up our egg money. At this time lots of the stores paid us in cash that we stashed in a box. We finally entered High School and joined FFA (Future Farmers of America). FFA has a project, Supervised Agricultural Experience, where you keep records on your project and document all of the things that you have learned including profit and loss. This introduced us to the business world and we quickly adopted quickbooks as our record keeper. We both competed on the FFA National level with our egg business.
Jared was named the National FFA SAE Poultry Winner in 2011 and Chelsey was named the 2012 National FFA Star in Agribusiness. In addition, the egg business has paid for our college tuition in addition to earning us scholarships. Chelsey won the National scholarship “Girls Going Places” and Jared won the National NFIB Entrepreneurial scholarship.
Chelsey graduated from the University of Kentucky, December, 2015 with a B.S in Sustainable Agriculture and Jared will graduate from EKU, Spring, 2016 with a degree in Agriculture Business with a Minor in entrepreneurship from the Business School.
