Rigby's Folly

Rigby's Folly

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Our small family farm specializing in Heritage Breed Chickens, Ducks, Fresh Eggs, Donkeys, & Pygmy Goats Brand doesn't matter.

Our many well loved chickens provide us with more eggs than we can handle! So, we collect them, candle them and refrigerate them until our next trip into Knightdale, Raleigh, Rocky Mount or Wilson. Currently the cost is $4.50 per carton, with 50 cents going to charity. There is a 50 cent discount for a returned carton in usable shape. If you have seen the cost of eggs at the market lately, why not

09/21/2025

"Wilbur", the mini potbellied pig has been recovered from his escape adventure and has been relocated to the supermax pasture. AKA the bachelor pad. AKA "Ruth's" pasture. Ruth is the male guard donkey.

Photos from Rigby's Folly's post 05/03/2025
05/03/2025

3 + 1=18! They breed very quickly.

Our latest offering on the farm... Guinea Pigs! Hand raised and cuddled from day one! Super cute, super friendly, and not bred in a mill.

03/16/2024

Party like it's 2012! Price rollback to when we first started, $3.50 per dozen for pasture raised chicken eggs. Today and tomorrow only.

03/07/2024

Farm Fresh Eggs available in Pilot

We currently have 5 dozen chicken and 1 dozen duck eggs for sale.
Chicken $6/dozen
Duck $10/dozen

$.50 credit/dozen purchased if you return a clean egg carton for re-use. (Doing what we can to save the planet and you money)

Please contact us so we can set a time to meet you at the bottom of the driveway.

If you or your family is in need of food just let us know and we will give you some eggs.

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Photos from Rigby's Folly's post 03/07/2024

We now have EGGS for sale! Our eggs are farm fresh, completely free range, and are laid where and when the chickens or ducks feel like it. Our birds eat what they can forage off the land, kitchen scraps, cracked corn, meal worms, black soldier fly worms, black sunflower seeds, and garden variety dry layer or duck food. (Yes they are spoiled)

The chicken breeds are Cuckoo Maran, Blue Laced Red Wyandot, Americana, Jersey Giants and a couple of random semi retired birds that really don't lay anymore. (They get to live out their nonproductive years just as they did when laying, not in a soup kettle) These birds have names, come when you call them, better than our dog at times, and are pets.

The chicken eggs range from medium to extra large but are ungraded. The colors could be green/blue, brown, or brown with dark speckles. The eggs will be random and unsorted, but all delicious.

You will quickly notice that the eggs have not been washed. When laid, the egg has a protective coating on the shell to help protect the egg inside. When they are washed, that beneficial coating goes away with the dirt. Wash the eggs in cold soapy water right before use.

As mentioned before the chickens make it an Easter egg hunt everyday. We tend to go hunting multiple times a day to get them up as soon as possible. Even though they have favorite spots sometimes they will just lay them under a plant, tipped over flower pot, or even just a box destined for recycling under a chair. Recently they have invaded my parent's garage laying them in all sorts of obscure places. Though we try our best to to make sure we get them all as fresh as possible there is the potential that we might miss one every now and then and it might be uncollected longer than most. We have not had any problems eating them ourselves for several months now, but if you get one that is not to your expectations we will ask the hen to replace it for you.

We do not candle our eggs, we are not experts at seeing what is inside an eggshell until we break it open. The occasional double yolk, blood spot, or "meat spot" is possible but so far has been a rare occurrence. If something bothers you please just let us know.

We do not have a rooster so the chicken eggs are unfertilized and have no potential for life.

The duck breeds are Pekin and Silver Laced Appleyard. The egg colors are a pale blue towards white or light tan with speckles. These eggs are VERY dirty because, well, they are ducks and like to play in the water and make mud puddles wherever they go. No idea on sizing, they are larger than any chicken egg, about 150%, but smaller than a turkey egg which is about 250% - 300% of a chicken egg. These eggs ARE fertilized if it matters. It does not affect the taste or quality.

Looking to get rid of your cut Christmas tree naturally? 01/01/2024

Looking to get rid of your cut Christmas tree naturally? You can bring it over to feed to our goats if you like. Please make sure your tree does not contain tinsel, flocking, or any chemical treatments. Then simply pull into our driveway and throw it over the fence into the pasture on your left.

Feel free to pet the goats or scratch between their horns. Just beware they can be ill behaved and try to nibble on your fingers and/or clothing. I have never lost a finger but i have lost many shirts to horn holes. 😁 Seriously though they tend to clamp down on fingers and pull. More of a scrape really, but it still can hurt.

The pasture on the right is Ruth the donkey. If he sees you he will likely bray at you. It is a very sad sound and you might think he is dying, but it is just the way they say hello. He is very inquisitive and skittish. He is also a brat and will bite you. He loves long walks on the beach, carrots and to have his back side scratched. Then, when you think he is your life long friend he will bite you, hard. LoL Feel free to bring him a carrot if you like, just remember he will bite the hand that feeds him. 😂

Looking to get rid of your cut Christmas tree naturally? You can bring it over to feed to our goats if you like. Please make sure your tree does not contain tinsel, flocking, or any chemical tre...

Timeline photos 06/05/2017

August - Roger 05/01/2015

Leftover game camera pictures from last year.

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"Ready to dive." 07/10/2014

An Osprey visited our farm this afternoon looking for lunch in the pond.

"Ready to dive." Osprey looking for lunch over our pond.

06/03/2014

Almond's morning calesthenics. Maybe we should create a pool to guess when he escapes.

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671 Tant Road
Spring Hope, NC
27882