Comments on: Wasting Good Egg Yolks

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:54:11 +0000

Well, if you think about it, the chicken will be healthier if they eat what their biology is adapted to. If the chicken is healthy, their eggs will likely be healthier as well. Grains and corn are probably not the best job for this. Chickens are actually omnivores, and in the wild, search for seeds, insects, and even larger animals like lizards and small mice (thank you wikipedia). The best deal would likely to be, have the chickens out in a field with plenty of space, and rotate what you feed them. Introduce a bunch of crickets and grasshoppers to the field, they’ll probably love it! Just remember, great eggs come from happy chickens!

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By: Evangeline

Evangeline — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:40:46 +0000

I have a question about the eggs you get from the local farm market. I wonder what makes the yolks so yellow, and I wonder what those free roaming chickens are eating. I always assumed those eggs were better for you, and I for one love the darker yolks and brown shells.

But then recently a friend of mine got some chickens and started harvesting his own eggs right up until the day a fox raided his hen house…(Urban chicken farming has become the rage in my town…I heard a rooster crowing in the yard behind mine just the other day). Anyway, when I asked him what the chickens eat, he said he feeds them corn from the feed store.

That got me wondering, what kind of corn, and what effect would it have on the eggs? Would eggs produced from corn-fed chickens have the same nutrient value as eggs produced from truly free roaming, bug-eating chickens? If the corn does have an effect on egg quality, especially if it’s likely to be some sort of GMO or hormone treated corn, what is an egg eater to do? How does one know at the end of the day what those chickens have actually been eating and what portion of their diet gets into the egg itself? How does one find a truly untainted egg source?

Thanks to any who can help solve this dilemma.