The process involves inkjet printing each egg after it is washed and candled with a U.S.D.A. approved vegetable based food grade ink with the date of the year the egg was laid. This dating we believe sets a new standard of freshness for consumers who demand the freshest eggs possible. To have the freshest and best tasting eggs possible, we start with only the finest grains grown by local area farmers. By using only locally grown grains, we are assured of getting the best corn and soybeans and other grains used in our feed. Then we custom mill the grains ourselves right on our farm to insure freshness.
Fresh feed makes a happy chicken, and a happy chicken makes a beautiful egg.
On our farm we always give a 30 day sell by date so the eggs reach the consumer as fresh as possible. The Julian date is the numeric date of the year that the eggs were cartoned. Eggs that were cartoned on January 1 would have a 1, eggs cartoned on December 31 would have a 365, the 365th day of the year. On our egg cartons this number is usually next to our federal farm number which is a 6 digit number. If all of this sounds confusing, just take a look at the chart below, and remember that a Rose Acre egg is a fresh egg.