Sad hubs came home and showed me his white eggs

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  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
    MyChocolateDiet wrote: »
    Oishii wrote: »
    In the UK we have caged, barn, free range and organic free range, priced in that order, and they're all the same colour.
    thanks

    Is there no market for more ethical eggs? Why would a change in the rules for caged hens reduce the availability of other eggs? Or do they not have adequate certification?

    Personally I believe the market is the best way to bring about ethical changes. If people stopped buying caged eggs producers would have no choice.
  • jahuntley27
    jahuntley27 Posts: 17
    AllOutof_Bubblegum wrote: »
    I have noticed SUCH a difference in the taste and amount of flavor in cage-free vs. generic. We buy CF whenever we can...if only Costco carried them in bulk! :'(

    Totally agree.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    iwantmydenimback wrote: »
    i'm more worried that they're going to skyrocket in price than the color of them. sometimes california passes the dumbest laws, man.

    That too.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-hens-eggs-california-proposition2-ab1437-20141226-story.html

    We raised chickens when I was a kid. Cage free chickens eat insects and greens -- resulting in more omega 3 in the eggs.
    The CA law was passed in 2008 and was implemented in 2015.
    The cage free law could effect the whole country.
  • lishie_rebooted
    lishie_rebooted Posts: 2,973 Member
    joeporta wrote: »
    Hens lay white shelled eggs when the hen is out in the open and the sun is shining - and brown shelled eggs when they are inside or on cloudy days (honest)


    Incorrect.

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(food)

    MCD, heres more info about eggs:

    http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2014/05/are-brown-eggs-tastier-and-more-nutritious-than-white-eggs/index.htm
  • lishie_rebooted
    lishie_rebooted Posts: 2,973 Member
    joeporta wrote: »
    603reader wrote: »
    joeporta wrote: »
    Hens lay white shelled eggs when the hen is out in the open and the sun is shining - and brown shelled eggs when they are inside or on cloudy days (honest)


    Incorrect.

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(food)

    MCD, heres more info about eggs:

    http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2014/05/are-brown-eggs-tastier-and-more-nutritious-than-white-eggs/index.htm

    B)B)B)B)
    Incorrect

    The normal hybrid battery type breed is brown in colour - the hens who stay and feed inside will lay nice brown shelled eggs - the farmer will shut the shed door on really sunny days so the hens will be out of the sun and lay the brown egg the house wife desires.

    !!!FACT!!!
    B)B)B)B)



    Source.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    joeporta wrote: »
    Hens lay white shelled eggs when the hen is out in the open and the sun is shining - and brown shelled eggs when they are inside or on cloudy days (honest)
    please stop.


    Also- it isn't just you- our egg prices spiked last week as well- Shop Rite (big chain here) even put a note up saying something to the effect that it was a big issue not just a store policy. (which they are pretty good at b/c they do buy local as they can- and if they cant' they have to raise prices to accommodate)

    I don't mind buying cage free to support the market- but in theory- this new law is pushing chicken owners into having cages that are big/ethical enough so the birds aren't crammed in- which is a solution in theory.
  • melimomTARDIS
    melimomTARDIS Posts: 1,941 Member
    i live way out in the country, and get my eggs from an amish family up the (dirt) road. $1.50 per dozen. I think if I lived in the city I'd pay much more!
  • Alliwan
    Alliwan Posts: 1,245 Member
    edited January 2015
    We raise our own free range chickens, ducks and turkey layers so we have LOTS of eggs available. We have a lot of repeat customers because they taste so very good. The only thing is, they are so fresh its hard to get a nice hard boiled clean peeled egg. Even when you use baking soda in the water.

    We have road island reds and isa brown chickens that lay varying colors of brown eggs. We have a road island white that lays white eggs as well as the ducks that lay white eggs. We also have quite a few Americana chickens that lay green/blue eggs. The turkey lays a spotted egg. They are all different but all taste the same but taste different than store bought IMO.

    We suppliment their feed in the winter with organic feed but they are completely free range in the spring/summer/fall and so they eat what they find along with scraps we give them. I dont know how people can say they have vegetarian chicken eggs as chickens eat anything they find. Unless you can guarantee your chickens never find a worm, caterpillar, spider, fly, etc you have no way of saying they are vegetarian eggs. Such an odd concept but I know people who swear they have seen vegetarian eggs.
  • Calliope610
    Calliope610 Posts: 3,783 Member
    amcook4 wrote: »
    603reader wrote: »
    The only difference between white eggs and brown eggs is the type of chicken it comes from. They taste the same. The nutritional values are the same.

    Yep, color of the egg is determined by the breed of the chicken.

    Yep, wait until you eat green or blue eggs. Araucanas rock.

  • Calliope610
    Calliope610 Posts: 3,783 Member
    joeporta wrote: »
    Hens lay white shelled eggs when the hen is out in the open and the sun is shining - and brown shelled eggs when they are inside or on cloudy days (honest)

    nope, not even close.
  • StarvingAuthor
    StarvingAuthor Posts: 67 Member
    Back yard chicken regulations can be pretty intense depending on county (if it's legal at all).
  • lishie_rebooted
    lishie_rebooted Posts: 2,973 Member
    Calliope610 wrote: »
    amcook4 wrote: »
    603reader wrote: »
    The only difference between white eggs and brown eggs is the type of chicken it comes from. They taste the same. The nutritional values are the same.

    Yep, color of the egg is determined by the breed of the chicken.

    Yep, wait until you eat green or blue eggs. Araucanas rock.

    I picked up some blue-ish shelled eggs at a farmers market in CT summer 2013. So good. Ii like the ones best from the farmers market or the farm stand by work. But the market, it was 3$/half doz. The stand was 3$/doz for brown eggs and the store was like 2.60$/doz for brown eggs so I got them from the stand.

    Where I live now, white eggs are 1.99$/doz at Trader Joe's. Idk at the regular store since I last bought at TJs lol
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    I got the most interesting egg info from another thread today, the sex safe to log thread, apparently egg has more in common with a certain substance than just it's raw appearance? Wonder if that was true.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    joeporta wrote: »
    603reader wrote: »
    joeporta wrote: »
    603reader wrote: »
    joeporta wrote: »
    Hens lay white shelled eggs when the hen is out in the open and the sun is shining - and brown shelled eggs when they are inside or on cloudy days (honest)


    Incorrect.

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(food)

    MCD, heres more info about eggs:

    http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2014/05/are-brown-eggs-tastier-and-more-nutritious-than-white-eggs/index.htm

    B)B)B)B)
    Incorrect

    The normal hybrid battery type breed is brown in colour - the hens who stay and feed inside will lay nice brown shelled eggs - the farmer will shut the shed door on really sunny days so the hens will be out of the sun and lay the brown egg the house wife desires.

    !!!FACT!!!
    B)B)B)B)



    Source.

    Personal experience and knowing and talking to commercial producers.

    I got 7 eggs from my 14 hens yesterday - 2 the previous day - I think their winter rest may be over. Fingers crossed!

    Your original statement about the sun made mw think there some kind of tanning you were referring to, had to reread ans realized its backwards sunny are the white ones, which now has me thinking of bleached eggs, either way, sounds silly.
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    joeporta wrote: »
    MyChocolateDiet wrote: »
    I got the most interesting egg info from another thread today, the sex safe to log thread, apparently egg has more in common with a certain substance than just it's raw appearance? Wonder if that was true.

    And when I first read this thread I wondered if you were sexually frustrated!
    This whole sote is filled with innuendo its almost impossible to escape, but yeah this is about eggs and weird laws and their unpredictable consequences
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    MyChocolateDiet wrote: »
    joeporta wrote: »
    603reader wrote: »
    joeporta wrote: »
    603reader wrote: »
    joeporta wrote: »
    Hens lay white shelled eggs when the hen is out in the open and the sun is shining - and brown shelled eggs when they are inside or on cloudy days (honest)


    Incorrect.

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(food)

    MCD, heres more info about eggs:

    http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2014/05/are-brown-eggs-tastier-and-more-nutritious-than-white-eggs/index.htm

    B)B)B)B)
    Incorrect

    The normal hybrid battery type breed is brown in colour - the hens who stay and feed inside will lay nice brown shelled eggs - the farmer will shut the shed door on really sunny days so the hens will be out of the sun and lay the brown egg the house wife desires.

    !!!FACT!!!
    B)B)B)B)



    Source.

    Personal experience and knowing and talking to commercial producers.

    I got 7 eggs from my 14 hens yesterday - 2 the previous day - I think their winter rest may be over. Fingers crossed!

    Your original statement about the sun made mw think there some kind of tanning you were referring to, had to reread ans realized its backwards sunny are the white ones, which now has me thinking of bleached eggs, either way, sounds silly.
    MyChocolateDiet wrote: »
    joeporta wrote: »
    MyChocolateDiet wrote: »
    I got the most interesting egg info from another thread today, the sex safe to log thread, apparently egg has more in common with a certain substance than just it's raw appearance? Wonder if that was true.

    And when I first read this thread I wondered if you were sexually frustrated!
    This whole sote is filled with innuendo its almost impossible to escape, but yeah this is about eggs and weird laws and their unpredictable consequences
    MyChocolateDiet wrote: »
    joeporta wrote: »
    MyChocolateDiet wrote: »
    I got the most interesting egg info from another thread today, the sex safe to log thread, apparently egg has more in common with a certain substance than just it's raw appearance? Wonder if that was true.

    And when I first read this thread I wondered if you were sexually frustrated!
    This whole sote is filled with innuendo its almost impossible to escape, but yeah this is about eggs and weird laws and their unpredictable consequences

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