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Fresh eggs from Pet Chickens, Huge difference from store eggs

Hugo Drax

Hugo Drax

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Sunny side up, Little bit of olive oil to fry and you get to really taste what an egg is supposed to be. Very rich, very yellow and big yolk. And it is a thick yolk not runny either. Tastes Amazing.

Get yourself a Pet Chicken and Enjoy the best eggs ever.

Just make sure you have a good sized plot so they can free roam and hang around and a good coop so they can lay them eggs.
 
We get our eggs every 2 weeks from a local farm. Good shit. You can totally tell a difference between them and store bought ones.
 
How are they health-wise? Are there any concerns as far as just letting a pet chicken pop out eggs for you (things you need to test for)?
 
Agreed. In order to compete against other egg producers, the major producers have to feed the cheapest feed possible to get eggs. Better food = better eggs.
 
DrPizza said:
Agreed. In order to compete against other egg producers, the major producers have to feed the cheapest feed possible to get eggs. Better food = better eggs.
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Not only that but they are in battery cages, they live a shitty life and eat crap and chemicals put into the feed etc.. to help increase production.

All that = poor product for the end user.

A happy Chicken fed well = Great eggs. And chickens are quite entertaining :biggrin:
 
Meh, we get them from the inlaw's chickens all the time and they're good but I wouldn't say amazingly different.
 
yeah really, if you have a local farm nearby or know someone, get eggs there.
It's more ethical too.
 
Hugo Drax said:
Not only that but they are in battery cages, they live a shitty life and eat crap and chemicals put into the feed etc.. to help increase production.

All that = poor product for the end user.

A happy Chicken fed well = Great eggs. And chickens are quite entertaining :biggrin:
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Good luck finding chick starter (food for baby chickens) that doesn't contain antibiotics, etc. it's too easy for certain diseases to spread through the flock when they're little, and they have to be kept fairly close for both warmth and because they prefer to be in a flock. (Hence, in NY, it's illegal to sell in quantities less than 6.) Even if organic feed was more easily available, I prefer that my investment have a near certainty of surviving.

In domestic egg production, contrary to what's posted above, there aren't special chemicals or hormones added to the feed. (other than what they need, such as mineral supplements e.g., calcium) It's illegal to add hormones afaik. Through the miracle of cross breeding, egg layers reach maturity at a younger age, and average nearly one egg per day for their life (which ends when their production decreases.)

With 20 egg layers, I used to average about 138 eggs per week - no extra chemicals. But, my feed was of higher quality. At the expense of the feed, plus the initial cost of the birds, and lack of production from them for a couple of months, it would be impossible to compete with grocery store crap quality cheap egg prices.
 
Hugo Drax said:
Sunny side up, Little bit of olive oil to fry and you get to really taste what an egg is supposed to be. Very rich, very yellow and big yolk. And it is a thick yolk not runny either. Tastes Amazing.

Get yourself a Pet Chicken and Enjoy the best eggs ever.

Just make sure you have a good sized plot so they can free roam and hang around and a good coop so they can lay them eggs.
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I'm not a fan of cooking eggs with olive oil. Real butter has a much better taste imho and its only a small pat so calories are negligible.
 
Fresh eggs. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

I helped my mom build a coop last year - she's got a bunch of Rhode Island Reds on the way now.
 
local town code doesnt allow chickens, but i hear they are considering amending it. otherwise I would love to have them on my yard.

how do they do with ticks? we got a bigtime tick problem around here so im wondering would the chickens peck them off each other or would the ticks be a big problemf or them?
 
When you say 'store-bought eggs', do you include free range eggs in that definition? I'm just wondering because free range eggs are more common in supermarkets here than non-free-range eggs these days.
 
Does anyone know what kind of egg are being served when you stay at a nice hotel? Mariott , hilton? The eggs doesnt' taste like anything.
 
mikeymikec said:
When you say 'store-bought eggs', do you include free range eggs in that definition? I'm just wondering because free range eggs are more common in supermarkets here than non-free-range eggs these days.
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ya me and the wifey buy free range eggs at the store, bought from a farm only a few miles outside of town.

So maybe they are 1-2 days older than if I had my own chickens, but the convenience of not having to tend to a coop is well worth it.
 
Most markets (at least here) have farm grown eggs. They are about $3-4 dozen for large eggs.

You can do an A/B comparison with a $1 dozen set and see it for yourself.
 
A former co-worker had some chickens and brought in her extra eggs for me on occasion. They were delicious to eat. One day I hope to have a home with a big enough yard to cultivate some crops and have a couple chickens for fresh eggs.
 
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