Producer

My name is Gavin Ruhs and I am 13 years old. My sister Peyton (15) and brother Ragan (9) and I have an egg business. I always wanted chickens so I purchased 13 laying hens in 2015. We have grown from those original 13 chickens to 170 laying hens! I love my chickens and we do our chores every morning early before school and then we gather the eggs when we get home from school. On our days off we clean our coops, and my sister learns how to keep the books and I have learned how to build coops as we have needed several. Our parents help us everyday by cleaning the eggs and packaging them. Mom delivers 3 days a week to our customers locally and we set up at our local farmers market during the summer on Saturday mornings. We make all business decisions as a family, Mom and Dad gather all the facts and research, we discuss it and then we kids make the decisions. We have learned a lot about running a business and responsibility. We are always expanding as the demand for our eggs grows and we are now at 300 laying hens! My sister Peyton's bakery has expanded to it's own business Sister's Bakery, LLC. and has some yummy options available on the coop. Peyton has wanted to open a bakery since we sat one summer at a Farmers Market and she learned to make new items each week. Her dream came true the spring of 2020 when she got her Cottage Foods Certificate and she has been busy baking since then for local customers and for you. Sister's Bakery is always looking for the next recipe to try and is excited to share them with you! Introducing 3 Little Pigs Pork! Ragan has added his pork products to the Farmer Gavin family. He has been raising pigs for several years for friends and family. He was able to double his herd this year to help meet demand and has some delicious pork to share with your family.

Our chickens are in mobile coops that we pull around our yard so they are always on fresh grass. They have a super large run that they can run and play in as well as a slide that they go in and out of their coops with. They have a swing in the coop for those chickens who don't prefer to run around all day. Where we live it is not safe for our chickens to roam free but they are very happy chickens. We feed them wheat, milo and corn that we raise on our farm. Our uncle raises the alfalfa for us and we always keep a bale available to them which they LOVE! We have a friend that runs a saw mill and they provide us with fragrant shavings for our chickens and they love to roll around and play in them. Our pigs are fed a delicious diet of corn, wheat, and milo grown here on our farm along with alfalfa from our uncle's farm and lots of fresh garden goodies in the summer. They also get farm fresh eggs each day for added protein and to reduce the amount of waste on our farm when eggs are broken or cracked.