About Poultry Cartons
Built by a Backyard Flock Keeper Who Needed Better Cartons
Why We Exist
PoultryCartons.com is a women-owned, family-run business founded by Laurel Faisst—a backyard flock keeper who didn’t just raise chickens. Laurel kept (and still keeps) chickens, ducks, quail, turkeys, and geese, and she ran into a problem many flock owners and small farms know well: the packaging didn’t fit the product.
In 2019, PoultryCartons was incorporated. In March 2020, Laurel launched online sales after a very specific “this has to be better” moment—she had quail eggs that didn’t fit neatly in the cartons available at the time. Eggs broke in plastic containers, and she hated the waste they created. When she finally found a carton option she trusted, the manufacturer required a minimum order of 20,000. Laurel bought the minimum… and decided to sell what she didn’t need.
Those cartons sold out in weeks.
That’s how Poultry Cartons started: one flock keeper solving a real problem, then realizing thousands of others needed the same solution.
Our Mission
Laurel says it best: “Saving the world, one carton at a time.”
We believe farm-fresh eggs aren’t a commodity—they’re a premium product. And premium products deserve quality, beautiful packaging that protects what you’ve produced and presents it with pride.
What We Do
We specialize in molded fiber (paper-pulp) egg packaging for flock owners, farms, and resellers who care about:
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Protection (cartons that hold up to real handling)
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Fit (options across bird types and egg sizes)
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Presentation (packaging that supports your brand)
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Practicality (bulk availability and straightforward ordering)
Our roots are in quail, but our selection has grown to support producers across multiple bird types and sales channels—farm stand, farmers market, retail, and more.
From a Loft to a Warehouse
Poultry Cartons wasn’t built in a boardroom. It was built the way many real small businesses are built: step by step, with grit, and with a lot of learning along the way.
Our first products were gray 12-cell and 18-cell quail cartons. At the beginning, we stored cartons in our loft. Before long, we were managing inventory across six large storage units. And last year, we expanded from a small warehouse into a 7,000-square-foot facility with pallet racking—doubling capacity… and quickly discovering we’ll need more space again.
Along the way we learned global supply chains, import/export logistics, and marketing from scratch. We’ve also learned hard lessons—like what happens when a batch isn’t sturdy enough to meet our standards. When something isn’t right, we don’t ship it. We take the hit, fix the issue, and keep going.
We’ve even had moments where “logistics” meant loading up the family and doing the work ourselves—because customers were waiting and product had to move.
Quality First, Every Time
We take quality personally because we know what’s inside the carton.
As a women-owned egg carton supplier, quality screen what we ship. If it doesn’t look right, it doesn’t go out the door. That extra attention is part of what customers rely on us for—especially farms and sellers who are building a brand and need packaging they can feel confident putting in front of their customers.
Where We Ship From
We ship the vast majority of orders from North Carolina. We work hard to keep product available and moving, because we know your customers are waiting on you.
Family-Run. Women-Owned. Built the Hard Way.
Poultry Cartons is women-owned and family-run. Most of the work is done by Laurel, with the support of her immediate family—no outside investors, no big loans, and no shortcuts. We’ve grown by reinvesting back into the business, one container, one improvement, and one customer at a time.
Let’s Find the Right Cartons for Your Eggs
Whether you’re packaging eggs from a backyard flock or scaling a farm brand, we’re here to help you choose cartons that fit your birds, your eggs, and your business.
Meet Laurel Faisst
Founder • Backyard flock keeper • Category challenger
When Laurel Faisst started PoultryCartons.com, she was warned not to. Egg cartons were seen as a “commodity” market dominated by established giants—exactly the kind of space where small businesses are told they can’t win. Laurel moved forward anyway.
It started with a real flock-keeper problem: her quail eggs didn’t fit the cartons available, eggs were breaking, and the plastic waste felt wrong. When the first sturdy option required a 20,000-carton minimum order, Laurel bought it—and sold out what she didn’t need in weeks.
From there, she built the business the hands-on way: learning global supply chain, import/export logistics, and marketing from scratch, while growing from cartons stored in a loft to a 7,000 sq. ft. warehouse. She also built a strong social media presence and helped push the category forward—introducing bolder options (like black cartons early on) and raising expectations for what egg packaging can be.
Her belief hasn’t changed: farm-fresh eggs aren’t a commodity—they deserve quality, beautiful packaging.
“Saving the world, one carton at a time.”
