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I have ducks and can tell you their eggs are far better in baking than chicken eggs, but they are not good for plain old eating.
Free range...taste different?? I don't think so, more humane yes.
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I buy eggs that are not only cage free but also are not fed antibiotics and are fed organic feed. Not only are they healthier, but the taste difference is quite apparent. I think they're worth the price difference. I also don't want my money to go to factory farms.
I buy eggs that are not only cage free but also are not fed antibiotics and are fed organic feed. Not only are they healthier, but the taste difference is quite apparent. I think they're worth the price difference. I also don't want my money to go to factory farms.
"Cage free eggs? Tastier than conventional eggs? hmmmmm..
From a magazine: reduces air pollutants?
Anyone from the farm?
not only are eggs tastier but also chickens...I remember when chickens were raised outside and left to scratch...man oh man, they were big, yellow and meaty, with a fantastic aroma...and was a Sunday Special meal for us.
Today, chickens do not see the light of day, they live on a conveyor belt they're entire life until they are butchered. They are fed hormones to make they grow faster and butchered at an early age....that is why they are not nearly as big or meaty?
Does anyone else remember, or do you remember the capon?
Today, some places sell free range chickens and I knew a man who raised cattle and fed them nothing but actual grain and allowed them to graze...his cattle were so in demand, he couldn't keep up with the demand and raise enough.
There surely is a difference in tasts...and they are much better for you...though I question, if what I'm buying is really free range, unless I purchase from a farmer.
Both my uncles raised cattle, chickens and we also had fresh milk, pork, bacon, turkeys, duck, rabbit....vegatables and tons of jars of veggies, fruits, tomatoes and relishes, pickles that we put up...
Food then, surely didn't contain all the chemicals it houses now, and to me, therein lies your cancer causing agents.
Food then was much better for you....
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I always buy the organic or cage free when we can. Eggs taste better, yolks are yellower, shells are thicker. I am figuring the chickens they come from are healthier.
Those Omega eggs taste especially eggy to me.
I dunno if cage-free or whatever taste better, but the karma certainly seems beneficial to all.
When I was a student, we lived next door to people who had chickens. We sort of shared a back yard. They said we could take any eggs we wanted.
It was so funny; I had this notion that hens sit neatly on their nests and lay a nice little uniform cluster of eggs every day. But that's not how it was.
These hens were definitely free range, and they laid their eggs in the funniest places. According to what the chickens were eating, the eggs might vary in color. There would be one little bluish egg sitting on the back porch. There would be another greenish one under a shrub.
It was like the Easter Bunny every day.
My good friend's brother-in-law has a few chickens. Their kids take care of the chickens and sell the eggs for spending money. The chickens roam free and the eggs are out of this world! They make the best scrambled eggs, and don't even get me started on the fabulous egg salad.
It is hard to eat a supermarket egg after you've had a fresh egg IMO.
Those Omega eggs taste especially eggy to me.
I dunno if cage-free or whatever taste better, but the karma certainly seems beneficial to all.
When I was a student, we lived next door to people who had chickens. We sort of shared a back yard. They said we could take any eggs we wanted.
It was so funny; I had this notion that hens sit neatly on their nests and lay a nice little uniform cluster of eggs every day. But that's not how it was.
These hens were definitely free range, and they laid their eggs in the funniest places. According to what the chickens were eating, the eggs might vary in color. There would be one little bluish egg sitting on the back porch. There would be another greenish one under a shrub.
It was like the Easter Bunny every day.
I don't know!
And they were different sizes, too.
It certainly dispelled my perfect quaint red barn vision of the poultry world.
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