Farmer scrambles to deliver 500 dozen eggs to Warner Robins | Houston & Peach | Macon.com

WARNER ROBINS — Tripp Eldridge loaded up cargo in Bluffton, south near the Alabama line, destined for Warner Robins at 6 a.m. Wednesday. He waved goodbye.

“It’s just gone uphill ever since,” Eldridge said later.

Not long after the driver left, Eldridge got a call. The 20-foot refrigerated truck had thrown a rod in Albany. So Eldridge scrambled to hitch a 12-foot refrigerated trailer to his truck and went to rescue the driver and precious cargo.

Ten miles on the other side of Albany, a tire exploded and destroyed the truck’s fender. But Eldridge had a mission.

“Every day, those chickens lay more eggs, and we have limited real estate,” he insisted. “We got to make way for those fresh eggs.”

Eldridge, a Warner Robins native, works for White Oaks Pastures, where an influx of chickens is laying more eggs than the farm’s refrigerating units can store. Thus, the farm donated 500 dozen of the surplus to the International City Farmers Market.

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