Do You Check Your Eggs?

We get them delivered by a young guy and his wife who have an award winning farm here in Sinj. My wife wanted to visit so we did. The eggs cost more, they come in different sizes and shades of white but the taste splendid.
NB my mum kept chickens, geese and ducks back in the day. Many people would be put of free range chickens and eggs if you saw what the scavenge. Dead rats, birds,chickens etc.
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I do check each individual egg, and it's always a good bet that if you're buying the cheap supermarket eggs, the first three or four cartons within reach will be full of cracked eggs, as shoppers swap them out for good ones.
 
TastyReuben said:
I do check each individual egg, and it's always a good bet that if you're buying the cheap supermarket eggs, the first three or four cartons within reach will be full of cracked eggs, as shoppers swap them out for good ones.
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I don't buy the cheap ones. I buy organic, so maybe they don't get handled so much.

CD
 
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Burt Blank said:
We get them delivered by a young guy and his wife who have an award winning farm here in Sinj. My wife wanted to visit so we did. The eggs cost more, they come in different sizes and shades of white but the taste splendid.
NB my mum kept chickens, geese and ducks back in the day. Many people would be put of free range chickens and eggs if you saw what the scavenge. Dead rats, birds,chickens etc.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWqWbBwJ9Sw
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You just took me back to my childhood at my nanas, granddad was a pow in WWII. He must have built the henhouse about 20ft long and a dozen chooks. My nana and I used to get the eggs every day. I was scared of the chooks and stuck close to nana. I remember the ceramic? False eggs there to stimulate the chooks to lay.

Russ
 
Burt Blank said:
Many people would be put of free range chickens and eggs if you saw what the scavenge. Dead rats, birds,chickens etc.
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Factory farmed chickens kill each other, too. As usual, the governments classify what is "free range." That makes people think the chickens roam freely over vast fields. Well, they can be overcrowded outside just as easily as inside a big, metal building.

Unless you can locally source all of your food, from farmers you know, your'e going to eat some things you didn't think you were eating, just because the seller has the right government qualifications to pass off their stuff as "better" in some way.

CD
 
rascal said:
I remember the ceramic? False eggs there to stimulate the chooks to lay.
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Yes, we were so poor mum gave them to us for breakfast . The saving was on energy costs and toilet paper.Back in the day I loved a civilized Sunday breakfast. Silence is a prerequisite, I also preferred to mash my eggs into a split croissant, so I could hold it in one hand and turn the pages of the Observer with the other. Rather like looking at a porn mag.
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caseydog said:
In the US, corporations are people, and have the same rights. The Supreme court said so.
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Only with the blessing of their shareholders and with the fiscal benefit for said shareholders in mind. A Ceo of a quoted corporation can only survive with their support. Just like your POTUS.
 
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caseydog said:
Factory farmed chickens kill each other, too. As usual, the governments classify what is "free range." That makes people think the chickens roam freely over vast fields. Well, they can be overcrowded outside just as easily as inside a big, metal building.

Unless you can locally source all of your food, from farmers you know, your'e going to eat some things you didn't think you were eating, just because the seller has the right government qualifications to pass off their stuff as "better" in some way.

CD
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The small free range growers around me are fed food scraps, I know I drop food off to two. They don't sell, they keep for themselves. My wife just walked in with a tray she was given today. The top left is store bought, we ran out. And a chilly from the greenhouse just for you.

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Burt Blank said:
Yes, we were so poor mum gave them to us for breakfast . The saving was on energy costs and toilet paper.Back in the day I loved a civilized Sunday breakfast. Silence is a prerequisite, I also preferred to mash my eggs into a split croissant, so I could hold it in one hand and turn the pages of the Observer with the other. Rather like looking at a porn mag.View attachment 43802
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You forgot the butter!! :)

Russ
 
caseydog said:
I don't buy the cheap ones. I buy organic, so maybe they don't get handled so much.

CD
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Same here. It floors me how supermarket eggs can be .99¢ for a dozen. When I get eggs from Kroger, I get the cruelty-free ones, which are more like $6. Half the time, I get them from the family farm around the corner.
 
TastyReuben said:
Same here. It floors me how supermarket eggs can be .99¢ for a dozen. When I get eggs from Kroger, I get the cruelty-free ones, which are more like $6. Half the time, I get them from the family farm around the corner.
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Welfare standards are much higher in the UK. I usually but free range eggs. All the supermarkets stock them. Eggs from caged hens tend to be in the minority on the shelves. Morrison's supermarket - the one I normally use, recently announced they would only be stocking free range eggs:

Robert Hofmann, Morrisons egg buyer, said: “Improving animal welfare is very important to customers and it’s very important to us. We source our eggs directly from farms and have worked hard to help them all move to free range.

“From today, all our eggs will come from free-range hens that are able to roam freely outdoors – typically during daylight hours – and then return to nest boxes in the evening.”
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The hidden agenda is in the products we buy containing eggs and which unless stated otherwise, use the cheapest eggs from caged hens. Morrison's has also pledged to eliminate these by 2025.

In the UK caged hens are not in individual small cages: Since Jan 1st 2013, all cages in the UK have been replaced by larger, ‘enriched’ Colony cages. The colony cages provide 750cm² per bird along with a nest box for them to lay their eggs in, perching space for the birds to sleep on and a scratching area to perform natural behaviours. Each Colony contains between 40 and 80 birds. This allows the birds more space to move around the colony.

Laying eggs in a nesting area has been shown to be one of the most important behavioural needs for laying hens …along with having perches. Food is supplied in troughs fitted to the cages and an automatic water supply is provided. The units are kept at an even temperature and are well ventilated. Lighting provides an optimum day length throughout the year.
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