WOLFFORTH, Texas — Gunner Claybrook, a 17-year-old high school junior at Frenship High School in Texas, launched his venture, Egg Heads Egg Company, while he was in 8th grade. Initially starting with 30 chickens, Claybrook expanded his flock to approximately 400 after acquiring the remaining chickens from Alcove Farms when they closed.

The enterprise began when Claybrook expressed interest in participating in FFA by showing pigs. His grandparents, wanting to assess his responsibility, suggested starting with chickens, which led to the business’s development.

“We’re really lucky and we have a lot of different places where we put our eggs in town and the farmers’ markets are super helpful,” Claybrook said.

To this day his chickens lay around 25 dozen eggs a day.

“When I return home from school, I go out to collect the eggs, refill the feed and water, and ensure the chickens are well taken care of,” Claybrook explained. “We implement several bio-security measures on our farm due to the ongoing avian influenza. We are quite cautious about it, but overall, it’s pretty straightforward.”

Along with selling the eggs at local farmers markets, Claybrook also had some sold at a couple of local stores including All Hale Meats and Rockin J Feed and Tack.

“I just hope to continue to grow it. We’re looking at right now we’re at about 400 hens and we’re pretty set where we’re at, but the more sales we get, that I would be super happy to get more chickens and just hopefully I want it to be a big enough thing to where we can hopefully one day get in like the United Supermarket to maybe HEB because it’s just the most important thing to me is to provide a good product to our customers,” Claybrook said.

If you would like to buy some eggs from Egg Heads Egg Company, you can head to their Facebook page or their website for more information.