Chicken & Egg Experience

Every chick on this farm began as an egg hatched right here on the property. In the Full Egg-to-Hen Experience, guests visit the active incubators and see exactly what happens between a fertilized egg and a baby bird. It is more precise — and more remarkable — than most people expect.

From there, the brooder room is where newborn chicks spend their first weeks of life under carefully controlled warmth. Seeing chicks at just a few days old, already alert, curious, and impossibly small, is consistently one of the most talked-about moments of the tour.

Our free-range coop is home to mixed-heritage chickens — vigorous crosses of Rhode Island Red, Barred Plymouth Rock, and Easter Egger genetics — alongside ducks and quails. These are not pure-breed show birds. They are a hardy, healthy mixed flock, raised from eggs and bred on-site across multiple generations.

Guests walk through the full operation: pullets in their growing quarters, ducks in their separate section, quails in their dedicated pen, and the main laying flock in the large open coop. Our guide explains how birds are separated by age, why flock management matters, and what a genuinely healthy bird looks like at each stage.

In the Full Egg-to-Hen Experience, you do not just watch the hens — you collect the eggs yourself, directly from the nesting boxes. Reaching into a nesting box, feeling the warmth of a freshly laid egg, and placing it carefully in a carton is the kind of tactile, real-world moment that children (and adults) do not forget quickly.

Our guide walks guests through egg grading: what the shell quality tells you, why farm-fresh yolks are deep amber rather than pale yellow, and what it means for an egg to come from a hen raised on certified organic, corn and soy-free feed with no antibiotics. You leave with a dozen eggs you picked yourself and the knowledge to actually understand what is in them.

Before the tour ends, guests in the Full Experience also get to feed the laying hens by hand — a simple moment, but one that makes the connection between farm and food feel real in a way that is hard to replicate elsewhere.