Egg Cit
ySan Diego County is the third largest egg-producing county in the nation. The 114 poultry ranches in San Diego, with more than six million chickens, do a $50-million-per-year business. Although the world's largest egg-production operation at a single location, with 3.1 million chickens, is still Julius Goldman's Egg City in Moorpark (Ventura County), San Diego's Prohoroff Poultry Farm, with 2.5 million hens, could easily overtake the number-one spot in the next few years.— "CHICKENS AND EGGS, EGGS AND CHICKENS," Manny Ramos, May 17, 1979
Fire writes the final chapter for the world's largest egg ranch
December 17, 2006|Cecilia Rasmussen | Times Staff Writer
Egg kingpin Julius Goldman founded the world's largest egg ranch here in Southern California, ruffling a few feathers along the way.
At its peak in the 1970s and '80s, Egg City produced 2 million eggs a day, laid by 3.5 million hens. It also exuded a major stink that offended noses in much of Ventura County. 
