Do real eggs taste better than store bought?
It's
that time of year when we start saving eggs for another incubator
run.
I picked up some fancy
organic store bought eggs yesterday thinking they might make a decent
breakfast substitute.
When we first started out
with chickens I remember not being able to tell the difference between
our eggs and store bought.
There might be a lot of
things to explain the change, but I suspect our early chicken
tractor experiments didn't give the birds enough pasture and now
they spend all day foraging for worms and bugs.
These eggs still make a good
meal, but now I think I appreciate our pasture fed flock even more
thanks to this commercial taste comparison.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Hi
I just discovered your blog and was excited to see this topic (also excited to read your blog). I will vote in and say YES real eggs taste better than store bought. I am a graduate of a Canadian University sgricultural program - my specialization was animal science and I can tell you that the commercial feeds (and commercial fertilizers) do not give you the resulting taste of an agricultural product that was made naturally. Eggs produced in 'egg factories' are fed commercial feeds with no access to natural light, natural surroundings or variations in feed that range chickens have. I buy real eggs from a local farmer that practices sustainable agriculture and her chickens run free among clover, grasses, and yes weeds but also also from ground that has tons of natural compost and manures. First they are fresh fresh fresh And you can taste the variances of the seasons.
I highly recommend 'real eggs'
Farmgirlwanabe