Thanks for your interest in our Moonshine Creek eggs. Here is a little FAQ about our eggs.
How and why do I sign up for buying MCF eggs?
Please preregister at [email protected] to buy our eggs. We prefer online payment and will text payment options after initial registration.
We try to keep a good balance between our supply and the local demand.
Eggs get freshly stocked at least once per week.
How do I pick up eggs?
Once signed up, grab one of the cartons out of our fridge in the farm stand outside our gate on Mountain View Road and check if it is the amount of eggs you want, if any are damaged. If you take eggs, please put your name and the date down on the clipboard provided in the farm stand. If you pick up for someone else, put down their name. We will keep track of amounts and payments that way. There are rubber bands in the farm stand, if you want to use them. Please bring your own containers or return our egg cartons. We run out quickly.
How can I get MCF duck eggs?
If you are interested in our duck eggs, let us know and we will let you know as soon as we have some for sale again. Our ducks started brooding and are currently preoccupied in parenting, but are hopefully back laying eggs soon.
How and why do I sign up for buying MCF eggs?
Please preregister at [email protected] to buy our eggs. We prefer online payment and will text payment options after initial registration.
We try to keep a good balance between our supply and the local demand.
Eggs get freshly stocked at least once per week.
How do I pick up eggs?
Once signed up, grab one of the cartons out of our fridge in the farm stand outside our gate on Mountain View Road and check if it is the amount of eggs you want, if any are damaged. If you take eggs, please put your name and the date down on the clipboard provided in the farm stand. If you pick up for someone else, put down their name. We will keep track of amounts and payments that way. There are rubber bands in the farm stand, if you want to use them. Please bring your own containers or return our egg cartons. We run out quickly.
How can I get MCF duck eggs?
If you are interested in our duck eggs, let us know and we will let you know as soon as we have some for sale again. Our ducks started brooding and are currently preoccupied in parenting, but are hopefully back laying eggs soon.
What does the date on the label mean?
The label on the carton shows 'MCF' for Moonshine Creek, the 'pack date' and that they got washed.
Eggs out of our fridge need to stay cooled. Please put them in your fridge asap and wash them before consumption. Only if the label says 'unwashed' it means they did not get washed.
Why do we wash most of our eggs?
Some of the eggs come with a lot of chicken manure attached and would not just be unappetizing in your kitchen, but also might create some challenges cleaning them with manure and dirt stuck to them. We usually soak them for several minutes in Dr. Bronner or Dawn soap before scrubbing them clean.
Especially duck eggs need some time to clean and they also need constant water changes for drinking and bathing and special feed.
But not washing already clean laid eggs means way less work for us and these we put in a carton and label 'unwashed' and as explained above, because of their intact membrane that comes off by washing they stay fresh and store double as long in the fridge as washed ones.
How long do MCF eggs last?
Washed eggs in fridge
Washed eggs last for about 2 months after the date. Eggs are usually laid 0-4 days before the pack date.
Unwashed eggs in fridge
Unwashed eggs, marked as such on label, can last for several months in the refrigerator, but need to be washed thoroughly before consumption. Unwashed eggs in the fridge need to stay refrigerated. Please do not leave them out on your kitchen counter.
Unwashed eggs on counter (on demand only)
Unwashed eggs left outside the fridge in the farm stand can be stored at room temperature for 2-4 weeks after the pack date. Great for travels without access to cooling.
Why are Moonshine Creek Farm eggs different in size?
When hens start laying, eggs are smaller in size and grow in size over weeks.
Duck eggs are a bit larger in size than chicken eggs and are especially great for baking.
Why are MCF eggs are different in color?
Different breeds of hens lay different egg colors, ranging from white, light pink, light blue, green, olive, light brown to dark brown.
Our duck eggs are white and sometimes slightly green or blue in shine.
How about Chicken Eggonomics?
Feed cost
We spent a minimum of 25 cents a day per chicken in feed costs. Buying the higher quality feed from the small mill, which we do every other month and feed every evening, the price per chicken per day is around 35-40 cents. We supplement the feed with kitchen scraps, mainly from the organic vegetables we grow on the farm, meal worms, grits, oyster shells, black sunflower seeds and minerals.
We also keep some of our older birds around to give them a little bit of a retirement and because some of them are real characters and we raise our own laying flock for next year. So, out of all our birds only half (50 % of flock) are laying hens this year and only half of these lay on an average day (25 % of flock), so our cost per egg is $1-$1.60 or $12-$19 per dozen, 4x the feed cost per chicken.
Labor cost
It takes at least 45 min, more an hour, per day to feed and take care of our poultry, including buying and transporting feed, watering, scooping manure, fixing/improving their coop and washing eggs. If we calculate labor in at WA minimum wage, costs are $2.50-$3.10 per egg or $30-$37 per dozen, depending on what quality of feed we buy and the eggs collected per day. On good days we can collect more eggs, bringing our price per egg down to $2 or $24 per dozen.
We are dedicated to keep our eggs affordable for our community and offer sliding scale prices $6-$9 per dozen.
Please enjoy every bite considering the high quality of eggs from our free-ranged, pampered chickens, our free 'labor of love', as well as our willingness to pay a bit extra out of pocket for being humane by allowing older chickens to stay around as an important part of the flock.
Thanks for supporting Moonshine Creek. Please consider sponsoring one of our hens or ducks to support our small farm and our animals.
The label on the carton shows 'MCF' for Moonshine Creek, the 'pack date' and that they got washed.
Eggs out of our fridge need to stay cooled. Please put them in your fridge asap and wash them before consumption. Only if the label says 'unwashed' it means they did not get washed.
Why do we wash most of our eggs?
Some of the eggs come with a lot of chicken manure attached and would not just be unappetizing in your kitchen, but also might create some challenges cleaning them with manure and dirt stuck to them. We usually soak them for several minutes in Dr. Bronner or Dawn soap before scrubbing them clean.
Especially duck eggs need some time to clean and they also need constant water changes for drinking and bathing and special feed.
But not washing already clean laid eggs means way less work for us and these we put in a carton and label 'unwashed' and as explained above, because of their intact membrane that comes off by washing they stay fresh and store double as long in the fridge as washed ones.
How long do MCF eggs last?
Washed eggs in fridge
Washed eggs last for about 2 months after the date. Eggs are usually laid 0-4 days before the pack date.
Unwashed eggs in fridge
Unwashed eggs, marked as such on label, can last for several months in the refrigerator, but need to be washed thoroughly before consumption. Unwashed eggs in the fridge need to stay refrigerated. Please do not leave them out on your kitchen counter.
Unwashed eggs on counter (on demand only)
Unwashed eggs left outside the fridge in the farm stand can be stored at room temperature for 2-4 weeks after the pack date. Great for travels without access to cooling.
Why are Moonshine Creek Farm eggs different in size?
When hens start laying, eggs are smaller in size and grow in size over weeks.
Duck eggs are a bit larger in size than chicken eggs and are especially great for baking.
Why are MCF eggs are different in color?
Different breeds of hens lay different egg colors, ranging from white, light pink, light blue, green, olive, light brown to dark brown.
Our duck eggs are white and sometimes slightly green or blue in shine.
How about Chicken Eggonomics?
Feed cost
We spent a minimum of 25 cents a day per chicken in feed costs. Buying the higher quality feed from the small mill, which we do every other month and feed every evening, the price per chicken per day is around 35-40 cents. We supplement the feed with kitchen scraps, mainly from the organic vegetables we grow on the farm, meal worms, grits, oyster shells, black sunflower seeds and minerals.
We also keep some of our older birds around to give them a little bit of a retirement and because some of them are real characters and we raise our own laying flock for next year. So, out of all our birds only half (50 % of flock) are laying hens this year and only half of these lay on an average day (25 % of flock), so our cost per egg is $1-$1.60 or $12-$19 per dozen, 4x the feed cost per chicken.
Labor cost
It takes at least 45 min, more an hour, per day to feed and take care of our poultry, including buying and transporting feed, watering, scooping manure, fixing/improving their coop and washing eggs. If we calculate labor in at WA minimum wage, costs are $2.50-$3.10 per egg or $30-$37 per dozen, depending on what quality of feed we buy and the eggs collected per day. On good days we can collect more eggs, bringing our price per egg down to $2 or $24 per dozen.
We are dedicated to keep our eggs affordable for our community and offer sliding scale prices $6-$9 per dozen.
Please enjoy every bite considering the high quality of eggs from our free-ranged, pampered chickens, our free 'labor of love', as well as our willingness to pay a bit extra out of pocket for being humane by allowing older chickens to stay around as an important part of the flock.
Thanks for supporting Moonshine Creek. Please consider sponsoring one of our hens or ducks to support our small farm and our animals.
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