Take a tour with these 3 great kids who are experts on raising Organic, Free-range, Certified Humane Hens. Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs are produced on many farms like this one, by families who care for their Hens, each and every day. .
“Farm Kids Give a Tour of an Organic Free-Range Egg Farm”
Right here is where the chickens come out. Um, they come out from inside from the little doors that we made for them, and they would come out. Here, we have stones for them. Farmer:
Our daughter is 9, and she is just into the eggs, the hens. She loves being in the chicken house and helping out with the family farm. When it’s time to do the eggs, they jump on their bikes and head to the barn, and we work as a family to get everything finished. The quicker we work together, the quicker we get done.
We’re going to give you a tour of our farm when we raise organic chickens, and these are where the eggs come from and they’re from Pete & Gerry’s. Inside here, you’ll find the packing room. And here, this is where we keep all the eggs. Right there we have full skids. They’re full of chicken eggs and we’re waiting for the egg truck to come and pick them up.
Well, right here is where the eggs come up. My moment would be standing right over there. She will be sorting the big eggs. The eggs will come up here, and here they separate them so they will be good for the flats. That way, when they came — come down here in this. They’ll drop down. They’ll go inside this, and they’ll slide out and go, come around on that belt. Flats will get filled up in here. Once they get filled up, this will keep on moving. It will push a flat out one by one and it will come out on these belts come up, and my dad will be standing here stacking them. That way, um, if one came, he will stack it on top.
There are 10,800 Pete and Gerry’s eggs on a skid, and it takes teamwork to put that skid in the cooler. My daughter can work the hand truck and our sons help to push, and my older son takes over and parks the skid of eggs, and close the cooler door and off we go. We enjoy what we do. It’s hard to find things in life you enjoy, and farming with the family is ours. It makes farming fun.
