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Saturday, September 26, 2026
Which egg is store bought and which egg is from farm chickens?
Raise Welsh Harlequin Ducks for decades, which are better egg layers than chickens. The left one's yoke is flattening out, & white is probably runny - could be a week or two old (store bought). Right one looks like something of a Free Ranging bird.
When our ducks hit the White Dutch Clover, the yolks get bright orange! (White Dutch Clover is that little stuff in your lawn, everyone hates, except egg layers...and our dogs love to roll around in it.)
People are surprised when they get a taste comparison between the pale, cage raised and an egg from real Free Ranged bird. Eggs actually can/do have a great flavor!
The mineral content determines the color. Back in the 1050s Ralston Purina Company sent out chicken feed to their stores ( my Dad owned a Purina Store) to feed the hens as a demonstration. I have seen red, blue, green, black and the normal yellow, with varying shades. It had no effect on the taste. It was a demonstration of what controlled the yoke color.
Ralston varied the mineral to what people were used to seeing. Free range chickens (out west didn't have the same ground minerals or bugs) so theirs appeared much like the one on the left, but chickens from the east or south eggs appeared like the one on the right.
Since most egg layer operations are caged birds they fall some where between the two shown. It's all in what the customer is used to seeing in their locality. I personally couldn't stand the sight of the black yoke, but Mom cooked it and I couldn't tell any difference in taste, although it was better to be blindfolded rather than look at it. Green eggs and ham was OK!
Live where the food is produced. I buy eggs from a kid putting himself through college. They look like the egg on the right. It is $3 a doz chicken or $5 for a flat that can contain 6 duck eggs.
Used to raise egg layers. An egg is an egg. The yolk color merely reflects carotenoids in the food. Doesn't affect anything else. But go ahead and delude yourselves and pay more.
Our hens have always layed eggs like on the right, no matter what breed. We use an old trick to keep them laying well as the temperature turns colder. We add cayenne pepper to the feed at a rate of about a third of a cup to 50 pounds of crumbles. It’s not much, and they don’t have taste buds, so can’t taste it.
the one on the right is farm raised
ReplyDeleteBingo. The albumen is also much stiffer. There's a clear quality difference.
DeleteRaise Welsh Harlequin Ducks for decades, which are better egg layers than chickens. The left one's yoke is flattening out, & white is probably runny - could be a week or two old (store bought). Right one looks like something of a Free Ranging bird.
DeleteWhen our ducks hit the White Dutch Clover, the yolks get bright orange! (White Dutch Clover is that little stuff in your lawn, everyone hates, except egg layers...and our dogs love to roll around in it.)
People are surprised when they get a taste comparison between the pale, cage raised and an egg from real Free Ranged bird. Eggs actually can/do have a great flavor!
The orange yoke is from the chicken that was outside eating insects.
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
Right is real and left is cage raised.
ReplyDeleteThe mineral content determines the color. Back in the 1050s Ralston Purina Company sent out chicken feed to their stores ( my Dad owned a Purina Store) to feed the hens as a demonstration. I have seen red, blue, green, black and the normal yellow, with varying shades. It had no effect on the taste. It was a demonstration of what controlled the yoke color.
ReplyDeleteRalston varied the mineral to what people were used to seeing. Free range chickens (out west didn't have the same ground minerals or bugs) so theirs appeared much like the one on the left, but chickens from the east or south eggs appeared like the one on the right.
Since most egg layer operations are caged birds they fall some where between the two shown. It's all in what the customer is used to seeing in their locality. I personally couldn't stand the sight of the black yoke, but Mom cooked it and I couldn't tell any difference in taste, although it was better to be blindfolded rather than look at it. Green eggs and ham was OK!
Great story!
DeleteC'est la verite! Even amongst our pastured and yard chickens, the yoke color varies a bit. It's based on what they eat.
DeleteLet em eat the bugs in the garden and stuff yokes get real orange and rich tasting.
ReplyDeletemy daughter keeps me in yard bird eggs. they have way more flavor and they look a lot like the one on the right.
ReplyDeleteLive where the food is produced. I buy eggs from a kid putting himself through college. They look like the egg on the right. It is $3 a doz chicken or $5 for a flat that can contain 6 duck eggs.
ReplyDeleteMarigold petals and/or paprika added to the hen feed will make their egg yolks a deep orange color.
ReplyDeleteFree range butt nuggets are the best eggs by far.
ReplyDeleteUsed to raise egg layers. An egg is an egg. The yolk color merely reflects carotenoids in the food. Doesn't affect anything else. But go ahead and delude yourselves and pay more.
ReplyDeleteSeen the same two colors from store bought eggs but only see the one on the right from my sister's chickens. Lots of different coloer shells as well.
ReplyDeleteOur hens have always layed eggs like on the right, no matter what breed. We use an old trick to keep them laying well as the temperature turns colder. We add cayenne pepper to the feed at a rate of about a third of a cup to 50 pounds of crumbles. It’s not much, and they don’t have taste buds, so can’t taste it.
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