Store Bought vs. Farm Fresh
This week our chickens started laying eggs again! We’ve been getting 1-2 eggs every day so far. I love finding the eggs when I go let the chickens out in the morning, but I love to eat them even more! The store bought eggs can be down right depressing. From the styrofoam containers to the pasty yellow centers. This store bought egg actually looks pretty good – I was hoping for a more contrasting comparison. To be fair though, I took the photo of what came out and you can still see a big difference in color and size. Our chickens yolks are practically orange! This store bought one is a decent yellow, but like I said, this is one of the best I’ve seen. Sometimes I don’t even want to eat the store ones with yolks barely the color of butter. Plus, I like having the chickens around – we feed them and they feed us! And they pass for entertainment when you don’t have a TV!
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You can really see the color in the “whites” of the home grown egg too. The left side is clear, while the right side has an orange-yellow tinge.
My chickens were being “stubborn” (ok it was really cold and they went on strike) about a month ago and decided not to lay for awhile. It was almost painful buying eggs from the store. So happy they are laying again
Us too. One of life’s simple pleasures in rejoicing because our chickens are gracing us with their nutritious and delicious eggs again!
So are the farm chickens just happier chickens and produce better eggs?
Katie, I think it has more to do with the fact that they are less than 24-hours old (and store bought eggs are weeks old), and that the chickens can forage on acres and acres of land, eating grass, bugs, seeds, getting plenty of exercise, and less stress than a factory-farmed chicken. You are what you eat – literally. And so are chickens.
I left a different comment on here before, and apologize for that. I took the question about chickens and happiness above the wrong way (probably). it’s a good thing I have a wife who knows how to temper my typing.
Everett
We love the eggs we get from our neighbors mixed flock of hens. They had nearly quit laying – getting a bit old. While they still don’t produce the way they once did, by putting a timed light in the hen house to compensate for short winter days and adding oats to their scratch the little flock of 14 hens has gone from 2 eggs to 9 eggs per day. The girls are nearly five years old and are some happy hens.