The Production Process: From Hen to Home

Delivering our eggs from the hen house to your home is a very efficient, clean and quick process. We take great care in providing you with the freshest and most nutritious product.

Laying: Hens are fed high-quality, nutritionally balanced feed made up mostly of corn, soybean meal, vitamins and minerals. They lay their eggs in a controlled environment that helps ensure the production of high-quality eggs.

Collecting: On some farms, eggs are still gathered by hand, but in most of today’s modern production facilities, automated gathering belts do the job.

Washing: The egg washing process sanitizes the eggs, and removes the “bloom,” a coating the hens’ body applies when laying the egg. Candling: Egg shells are translucent enough to allow “candling” – holding the egg up to a light source and inspecting the interior for quality without breaking the shell.

Grading: Eggs are graded on both interior and exterior quality, and are classified AA, A or B.

Sorting & Packing: Eggs are sorted according to size (minimum weight per dozen), and are placed large-end up in cartons.

Shipping: Eggs are shipped in refrigerated trucks. Most eggs reach the grocery store just one day after being laid and nearly all of them reach the store within three days.

Selling & Storing: Eggs must be refrigerated. (They will age more in one day at room temperature than in one week in the refrigerator.)

Enjoying: America’s egg farmers produce high-quality, safe eggs that provide all-natural, high-quality protein.