Goshen Trails Ranch

We started out with chickens back in the spring of 09 when I ordered 15 Black Australop pullets from Cackle Hatchery. A Black Australorp hen holds the world record for the most eggs laid in a year with the total being 364 eggs in a 365 day period.  Needless to say we had eggs coming out of our ears! We sold a little here and there to friends and family and really enjoyed the best tasting eggs we ever had in our lives as well as just being around those amazing hens.  My oldest son Wyatt ended up taking over the hen care and has become very close to all of them. He has recently added 5 new Australorp pullets, and a cockerel along with 3 Ameracauna pullets and cockerel as well which all should be maturing giving eggs this winter. Well the pullets will be giving us eggs, not to cockerels obviously. My youngest son Colton picked out Buff Orpingtons for his chicks and they are the sweetest chicks I have ever seen.  We also bought some Dark Cornish cockerels and 2 turkeys for butcher later this year. 

In the beginning of August, we were at our favorite local store, Dolores Food Market and saw a sign for an egg business  for sale so I called the number.  Two days later we had 93 more hens and a rooster to boot.  About a week later we came into another 44 hens and added them to the flock.  We have our State License to sell eggs to stores and restaurants. Ours is truly a family farm. Our two boys Wyatt and Colton help feed, water and collect eggs each day. Each boy has their own little flocks as well and are learning how to run a business first hand.

About our hens;

In the spirit of maintaining truly local eggs, our hens are fed a layer mix milled by a local company, not some low quality, arsenic infused, drugged up, so called "feed" full of rendered meat and bone byproducts by a multinational corporation. They get a daily treat of kelp from off the east coast of the US as well which of course is not local to Colorado but provides an excellent source of micro-nutrients and minerals.  Our hens have access to pasture so they can forage for bugs and grasses on their own as well.  Next year we hope to add egg-mobiles such as used by Polyface Farm so they can follow our cattle and horses around the property eating bugs, spreading manure and restoring the land.

We believe the true meaning and value of local is transparency so we welcome visitors any time.  I am sure like us, you want to know where your food comes from.  You are putting your trust into us every time you buy an egg and we are so grateful and humbled by that.  So come on over to the Ranch and visit with our  hens, horses, dogs, llama(s), cat, cows, turkeys etc., etc., etc.