Around 2022/23, it was terrible.

Bird flu was terrible.

And I felt it here, but on the other end.

My hens were healthy.

I got phone calls every day... like five calls a day from folks wanting to have eggs because eggs were not being in the stores.

They were... stores were out of them.

But my hens kept laying eggs.

Our eggs are sold for $5 a dozen.

That pays for our feed.

You know, our costs to have them healthy and good to go.

But our idea is to make sure that folks can get quality farm raised eggs at a decent price.

Keeping my birds healthy is a priority for me.

To have them get sick — that would be terrible.

But I take steps to make sure that doesn't happen.

I get up 6 oclock in the morning.

I eat breakfast.

Come outside.

Shoes I wear every day are outside only shoes for the coops.

Nothing else.

I walk outside.

Check their feed.

Their feed is contained in containers and sealed up.

No feed... extra feed laying around anywhere in their bowls.

It's all brought inside to keep the mice and other small animals at bay.

It keeps disease out of their coops.

In the afternoons, about 3 oclock, I check them again for their feed.

I give them the apples and then a hamburger every day.

A variety of foods.

They eat vegetables and fruits and maybe some lettuce.

Check their water, make sure they're safe.

At nighttime... about 7 oclock or at dusk, we put them to bed.

I close up their coops, make sure they're all inside.

The hens have a pecking order at night and there's always someone in charge with the hens.

There's always someone who rules the roost, so to speak.

They have the top spot at night and up on their roost at night.

They get to... they eat first most of the time.

I have a full time job for 26 years now with a health care company.

I work at home full time.

If I didn't work at home, I couldn't do this.

I could not make the hens happy and clean.

And the eggs are fantastic.