delivers
Locally-Raised, Farm-Fresh Eggs from Cage-Free Hens
to Many of the Residential Communities of the Tri-Cities.
delivers
Locally-Raised, Farm-Fresh Eggs from Cage-Free Hens
to Many of the Residential Communities of the Tri-Cities.
Hello. My name is Mike Mackey and since 2000 my wife, Laurie, and I have been living out
here in the Red Mountain area just outside West Richland. For ten years we sold farm-fresh eggs to
some of our neighbors and friends who passed the word about the great-tasting eggs being produced by our cage-free hens.Since the end of 2010 we have been licensed by the State of Washington to sell our great tasting eggs off the farm. My son, Bob, and I are now able to make our farm-fresh eggs available to a limited number of folks in many of the residential neighborhoods of Richland, West Richland and south Kennewick. Perhaps you are possibly interested in being a customer yourself.
Let me tell you about our high quality eggs and the hens that lay them and then I’ll share
with you how you may have them delivered to your home.
WE TREAT OUR HENS RIGHT AND THEY RECIPROCATE
The laying hens here at Red Mountain Egg Farm are kept in large outdoor pens. Connected to each pen is a chicken house which the hens may freely enter and exit as they wish. Our layers are never caged nor is there ever a closed door to keep them from exiting their house.
We provide our hens with quality commercial feed as well as “chicken scratch”
which is made up of cracked corn and other grains. However, the hens can, and do, supplement the feed we provide them with the
natural foods that they scratch out of the ground themselves: seeds and other vegetable matter and, yes, bugs. Such natural
eating by our laying hens produces wonderfully flavorful eggs with the deep yellow yolk that true lovers of farm-fresh eggs seek.
The USDA says that the eggs of chickens who are raised in this way may be described as “free-range”.
I prefer the term "large-pen raised"
Our hens are never fed hormones. They are never de-beaked.
We have found that when we provide our hens with as natural an environment as possible plus lots of sunshine, fresh air, good food, clean water and the protection of the pen and chicken-house, they in return daily provide us with hundreds of wholesome, delicious eggs.
Following the processes specified by the State of Washington to ensure wholesomeness and cleanliness, our eggs are cleaned with a
clear water spray, packaged and then refrigerated until they are to be delivered. We use no chemicals to clean our eggs as
egg-shells are porous and will absorb chemicals. At the time of delivery, our cartoned eggs are placed on ice in
coolers in our delivery-van where they remain until they are delivered to the customer.
LIKE THE MILKMAN OF OLD
We make our farm-fresh eggs available to consumers in the simplest, most direct method I think has ever been developed. The old-fashioned milkman may be gone, but his method of direct-to-the-consumer distribution has never been improved upon for providing fresh products conveniently to quality-conscious buyers. Are you thinking you might like to be one of our customers?
PLACING A “STANDING ORDER”
Our "Standing Order" system is the most convenient method of receiving and paying for farm-fresh eggs we know of. By filling-out the Standing Order Form, you establish an arrangement with us whereby we deliver to your home twice a month a quantity of eggs predetermined by you (minimum of one dozen).
Of course, your egg-purchase needs may vary at times, or you may need to cancel delivery. No problem. A quick email sent to us before noon of your normal delivery day and we can adjust your purchase to whatever is appropriate for you. The purpose of the “standing order” is not to commit you to eggs you don’t need or want, rather it is to make your purchases from us as convenient as possible.
Payment for your egg purchases is also very simple. When you place a “standing order” we establish an account for you on our computer and you receive a monthly billing by email for your egg purchases. You will receive your statement by email normally by the sixth of the month following the purchases and payment is due by the fifteenth. Payment can be made by check or e-check.
To make our “milk-man delivery system” work correctly we also ask one other thing of you. You will need to select an
alternate delivery location somewhere on your property. This could be a cooler on your porch, refrigerator on your patio, or other simple, reasonable delivery location. A very popular method is by making a thermal bag available.
You'll find them at lots of discount stores. We've even seen them at the Dollar Tree.
By having an alternate delivery location, should you not be at home when we are delivering in your neighborhood, your eggs will still be delivered to you. You don’t have to make any special arrangements for that specific evening. Please note that to take care of all our customers to whom we must deliver each evening (up to 50 customers in three hours!), it is impossible for us to make second attempts at delivery.
If you are not at home and no alternate delivery location is available, we will have to move on to our next customer and we will not be able to deliver to your home that week.
When we deliver to your home we will have you sign our delivery sheet. If no one is at home, we will deliver the eggs to your specified alternate delivery location and make a note of it on our paper work. Responsibility for the eggs then passes to you, the customer. An invoice will accompany the delivery.
We deliver to our customers between 5:30 pm and 8:30 pm. (see map to
see if, and when, we deliver in your community) Your eggs will be delivered to your home during these hours. After the first couple of deliveries you should be able to get a more specific idea as to the usual time of delivery, though it will always vary some. If you are in a position to receive your delivery before 5:30 or after 8:30 we would appreciate knowing that.
THE PRICE OF OUR EGGS
Our farm-fresh eggs are very much a natural food and the size of the eggs will vary a little within a carton, somewhere between large and extra-large in size. Likewise, the color of our eggs will vary within the carton, from a very light tan to a deep brown.
The price for a dozen farm-fresh eggs as of June 2012 is $3.79. There is a total delivery charge of $1.00. Therefore, the cost of two dozen eggs delivered is $8.58, the cost for three dozen delivered is $12.37, etc.
Please note that the "standing order" is our only distribution method. We are not taking on any more on-farm customers or one-time delivery customers. However, our eggs can be purchased at Templeman's Market on Clearwater in Kennewick. Our egg production is limited.
Sow your seed in the morning,
and at evening let not your hands be idle,
for you do not know which will
succeed,
whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.
Ecclesiastes 11:6 (NIV)
5/4/2012