Got Eggs? Call 973-586-3131                                                  

We sell farm fresh eggs, mostly brown, and deliver to customer’s homes in the Denville area on Saturdays.  If you would like to be one of our customers call us at 973-586-3131 and we can make arrangements for delivery or for you to pick up your eggs here at the farm. 

Our brown-egg layers have included the following types: Silver Laced Wyandottes, Barred Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, Black Jersey Giants, White Jersey Giants, Speckled Sussex, White Wyandottes and Light Brahmas.  We also sell a few green eggs from our Araucana chickens.  We have a small number of white egg layers, including Black Minorcas, Golden Polish and Crevecoeurs.  Every year we order different varieties of chickens, making our flock a very mixed group of chickens.

There are many aspects of our chicken farming that differentiate our operation from the large typical commercial operation.

Unlike most commercial egg operations we do not fool the chicken into laying more eggs by giving it an artificial 18-hour day year around.  We use no artificial lighting: what nature intended is what we get. 

This causes some production variability with the chickens laying fewer eggs in the fall and winter when the days are growing shorter and more eggs in the spring (especially) and summer when the days are growing longer.

We also differ from most commercial egg operations in that we don’t kill the birds after the first year when the rate of lay drops significantly.   Older birds lay fewer eggs (and are more affected by the changing hours of daylight), but once the day-old chick arrives here and becomes a Cedar Gate Farm chicken, it is destined to live out it’s life and die of natural causes.  As the older bird is greatly affected by the changing hours of daylight, the variability in production mentioned in the prior paragraph becomes even more severe in these older chickens.

Because of the two above-mentioned factors, we have more substantially more eggs available for sale in the spring and early summer, and considerably less in the winter.

Another factor that distinguishes us from most poultry farms is that our chickens get natural spring water.  For over one hundred years the farm has had its own water system (not hooked up to the town’s water system) and the source is a spring here on the property.

In the fall our new crop of chickens is reaching laying age (about 20 weeks) and we offer their eggs for sale.  These pullet (young chicken) eggs are small, but very sweet and tasty.  If you have never eaten a pullet egg, we think you will be in for a treat.

As you can tell from this information, we do not have a single type of chicken of a single age exposed to a single type of environment producing s single type of egg.  We have different types of chickens of different ages exposed to different naturally changing environments, and we get, not surprisingly, different types of eggs.  These are the eggs that we sell – what the chicken gives to us, we give to you.

 Some Facts about Chickens and Eggs:

White shelled eggs are produced by hens with white feathers and ear lobes. Brown shelled eggs are produced by hens with red feathers and red ear lobes. There is no difference in taste or nutrition between white and brown eggs.

Araucana Chickens lay greenish blue, or green eggs. There is no difference in taste or nutrition.

Occasionally, a hen will produce double-yolked eggs throughout her egg-laying career. It is rare, but not unusual, for a young hen to produce an egg with no yolk at all.