Michigan Eggs Help Haiti Earthquake Victims

As part of the national "Good Egg Project," eight Michigan egg farmers are donating 576,000 eggs and shipping them to Haiti to help feed victims of the January earthquake.
The farmers gathered at Herbruck's Poultry Ranch in Saranac on Feb. 18 to prepare the eggs for their journey. At Herbruck's, the eggs were cracked and the liquid, totaling about 48,000 pounds, was chilled to around 35 degrees. A semi-trailer is transporting the eggs to Iowa, where the liquid eggs will be dried and flown to Haiti.
"Michigan family egg farmers like to say we feed the world—now we're helping feed those who need a helping hand the most," said Cal Schipper, president of the Michigan Allied Poultry Industries Inc. The farms banding together in the effort are:
• Old Pike Farm, DeWeerdt Poultry Farm, Schipper Poultry Farm and Zoet Poultry, all located near Holland
• Konos Inc. near Martin
• Farm Crest Foods near Pigeon
• Herbruck's Poultry Ranch near Saranac
• Sunrise Acres Egg Farm near Hudsonville
Transportation of the egg powder to Haiti is being organized by Feed the Children. The Michigan egg farmers and the drier in Iowa are donating all costs, estimated at $100,000, as part of the Good Egg Project, America's egg farmers' effort to fight hunger. 
In total, America's egg farmers will be donating more than 275,000 dozen shell eggs (more than 3 million eggs valued at more than $275,000) to Feed the Children's Haitian relief efforts.