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Immigrants from Countries to the South of the US, won't eat the commercially produced eggs here. Turns out, they think there's something wrong with them. (They could be right.) They don't like the color of the yolks. "Too pale" in comparison to the bright yellow yolks that they're used to. They said that the birds would forage wild marigolds in their home country. It is the bright yellow flower color that transfers to bright yolks, they said. Probably hogwash, but I don't know, either.
So, if you want vivid yellow yolks, plant marigolds in your field where your chickens forage. This ain't no yolk, either.
My sister had chickens for a long time, then one night a bear got them. She bought eggs from the store, and she said when her S.O. cracked one open, he looked skeeved for a minute and thought something was wrong with it because the yolk was the wrong color.
Immigrants from Countries to the South of the US, won't eat the commercially produced eggs here. Turns out, they think there's something wrong with them. (They could be right.) They don't like the color of the yolks. "Too pale" in comparison to the bright yellow yolks that they're used to. They said that the birds would forage wild marigolds in their home country. It is the bright yellow flower color that transfers to bright yolks, they said. Probably hogwash, but I don't know, either.
So, if you want vivid yellow yolks, plant marigolds in your field where your chickens forage. This ain't no yolk, either.
This is true. Some farmers give chickens marigold flowers to make the yolks darker, because that's what people want to see. But a bright orange yolk does not necessarily mean the egg tastes different or has more nutrients.
People are very swayed by the appearance of food. Along with orange egg yolks, they want nice, straight carrots and shiny apples. So you can save a lot of money by buying crooked carrots and unpolished apples at less pricy markets. They all taste the same.
Not only are eggs three times the price but at the market today there was a big sign on the eggs saying "limit one". Meaning one carton, not one egg.
There was also a nice sign blaming the bird flu for the egg shortage.
There won't be any egg hoarding from me, not at three dollars a dozen. I'll just do without. I hope this bird flu thing is not going to last long.
On the bright side, it is Christmas and not Easter. Its going to get bad if there aren't enough eggs at Easter.
I knew this was coming months ago when they first tried to pass bird flu as the next deadly virus catastrophe. It was soon after that when the price eggs skyrocketed.
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Originally Posted by steiconi
I wish eggs were only $3 a dozen. They're closer to $5 here.
My brand went up to $6 a carton and now I can't even get them in the grocery store they are all gone.
I noticed a difference in color with my eggs too. I buy the one brand that doesn't make me sick which is organic eggs. Not the company organics.
I buy the brown organic eggs from a family run company with their picture on it. One day there was a difference I never saw before. One yolk was a palish yellow and the egg next to it had a dark orange color. They both taste close to the same. But I know the darker orange is from the better quality feed.
I know this from family that has their own chickens and eggs on their property. Their eggs taste a whole lot better.
Store eggs are not at all like theirs. But even now the family run companies I suspect are having trouble getting good quality grain.
Chooks are omnivores and will eat just about anything. I keep commercial feed available to the birds so they can take what they want, but they will eat mealworms, earthworms, corn, carrot slices, squash, Arugula, and anything else I throw in before the commercial feed.
Someone gave me dry, stale bread -about which I was sceptical- and the birds tore through that within 2 hours. And then my neighbor had a rib cage segment from a deer and that venison only lasted a day-and-a-half.
A few years back, I was visiting said friends at their ranch and their then-toddler daughter excitedly pointed at the ground and yelled, "Look! A cute little frog!" And sure enough, there was a small frog, roughly the size of my thumbnail, on the ground.
One of the chickens wandered over to us, saw the little frog....and ate it.
You have never seen a toddler so incensed. "Bad chicken! You ate cute little frog!" OMG, that kid was so mad!
For months afterwards, whenever I bought eggs from them, I'd always joke, "So which ones come from the frog eater?"
Well, to continue on with this--several of my other friends know that I have a friend who sells eggs, and are asking how much she sells them for. They either can't find eggs, or the prices are high, and they're considering $5/dozen a bargain at the moment. So I gave rancher friend a heads up than on the next order run, I'll be buying more than I usually do from her.
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A few years back, I was visiting said friends at their ranch and their then-toddler daughter excitedly pointed at the ground and yelled, "Look! A cute little frog!" And sure enough, there was a small frog, roughly the size of my thumbnail, on the ground.