How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Confused Newbie

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Confused Newbie

Maybe you could run a little expirement, Lee. Pen some of the chickens and control what they eat and let some free range and see if each group's eggs taste differently. Well, it's just a thought.............. you might not be planning on allocating separate living quarters for different groups of chickens.

Georgia

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--- On Wed, 12/29/10, LEE BAHR <pulsarxp@embarqmail.com> wrote:

From: LEE BAHR <pulsarxp@embarqmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Confused Newbie
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 5:52 PM

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I too am a newbie. Won't have any chickens until 2011. This diet thing interests me a lot. Besides the fun of having chickens, the taste of the eggs plays a part in wanting a few chickens around the place too. My grandparents had free range chickens and the taste of their egg's yolks were wonderful compaired to an egg purchased at the grocery store today. The yolks were also very orange and not yellow. I know they fed the hens a lot of corn. (Probably not a balanced diet unless the hens made up for it when "free ranging)". (I doubt they fed the hens balanced diet chicken feed. I'm thinking it was probably pure cracked corn).

Near my lake house there is a feed store selling "free range" chicken eggs for human consumption. Frankly, they taste no better then eggs from the grocery store and they too are yellow and not orange in color. I have no idea what the hens producing these eggs eat. Seems to me if they really were "free range," the yolks would look different then those from a grocery store.

That said, how do I get eggs from my hens to taste as good as the one my grandparents produced yet give the hens a balanced diet? I know a balanced diet does not mean a pure corn diet. Maybe I am just imagining how good those eggs tasted many years ago.

Lee

Coldspring, Tx