Journey of the Egg
The Fascinating Journey of an Egg Revealed
Delve into the extraordinary world of the egg and discover its remarkable evolution.
Order our new babies: Eggs fertilised, hatches at 30 days
Vaccinated & kept toasty warm: 1 day old our babies are vaccinated and kept at 36 degrees - with no feathers it’s a bit chilly!
Welcomed to the Solar Eggs family: At just 1 day old they come to their new home, a nice and warm rearing shed with lots of feed and water. They will stay here for at least 16 weeks
Vaccinations, Vaccinations: Big vaccinations take days to separate, catch, vaccinate 10,000 babies with between 10-15 staff.
Keep on growing babies Settle out for 4 more weeks after 12 week vaccinations.
Heading to your new home!: 16-18 weeks head to laying facilities
Teaching time Teach the chickens where to lay - in lay boxes. Staff constantly walking the sheds, changing lighting times, opening and closing nest boxes. Ensures quality eggs
Graduation time: 20 weeks - full lay!
Getting there 23 - 24 weeks: gradually laying more eggs
Peak performance!: 25 - 36 weeks our ladies are laying at their peaks
Keeping our girls healthy: Water vaccinations every 2 months + natural vitamin mixes
Next Generation: And then the cycle happens all over again for next babies to start laying the best quality eggs. Before our new ladies come in the shed is cleaned out, any maintenance is completed (this can take up to 3 weeks to do)
Day to Day: Collect Eggs, Cropping fields, opening & closing doors, keeping the chickens entertained with hay bails and other things.
Collect + Store: Eggs and collected, packed and stored
And then eggs head to our Plympton facility where they are washed, graded & packed. Nothing goes to waste - anything with imperfections is turned into our Pure Pulp Range.
And then... Orders are placed, admin are working hard processing all these orders, then our picking and packing staff collect all the orders.
Local - trucks take the eggs to your local store. Export to Singapore are packed and sent to the airport