I eat 6 eggs when I eat breakfast, generally only two days a week. Love them scrambled, omelettes, hard fried, pickled, just about any way you can think of. But I’ll be danged if I can taste one bit of difference between store eggs and “farm” eggs.
Oh and ours have went up $1 per dozen in the last month.
Huge difference. Not even close. The difference is in the diet and lifestyle of the hens. A wild diet (bugs, grubs, wild greens, wild berries and seeds, etc.) produces delicious eggs. You can even tell by looking at them cracked into a bowl. Store bought have pitiful pale yellow yolks, while real free range (not store bought "free range") eggs have deeply rich, vibrant yellow, yolks, almost a little orange in tone.
Yeah I get it. The yolks are orange when they eat grasshoppers and junebugs. But to me they taste like eggs. I can tell a bigger difference in taste between cooking them in bacon grease or Snowcap lard than from “farm” raised or not.
Yeah...there really ain't a whole hell of a lot of difference basically.
We had a weird thing happen to us last week regarding eggs. We live in the country and have a few neighbors, but don't know them really well. Anyway, wife check the mailbox and finds a carton of a dozen farm eggs. No note or explanation. The carton had a label from a small farm about 30 miles away with an expiration date from last summer.
We asked around and called some friends and relatives, but nobody knew anything about it. Weird.
I want to dispel this paranoia associated with “””SHELF LIFE”””
OMG I MUST TOSS THESE GROCERY STORE EGGS, THEY EXPIRE TOMORROW”
JFC JFC JFC
we uses to keep both farm eggs and city/store eggs for 3,4,6 months. Who gives a sheeeyott?
If youre gulping raw eggs like Lardass Hogan then maybe, but he was intent on barfing anyway.
Expiration dates: FAKE NEWS
Also, as long you dont wash that cloaca butt lube off of Lucy The Rhode Island Red’s eggs, they can stay in the henhouse on a 90 degree afternoons till ya get back from the beach trip or out on the counter for a few days too.
There is a farm where we used to get country smoked pork sausage. Pull into the man’s gates and I swear there was no less than 200-300 chickens running buck wild all different directions.
Nothing seemed organized either. Bizarre breeds, feral, banties, leghorns, cross breeds, hens that looked gang-banged, 1/3 of roosters ready to whoop your ass when ya got out of the truck.
Sheesh
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
There is a farm where we used to get country smoked pork sausage. Pull into the man’s gates and I swear there was no less than 200-300 chickens running buck wild all different directions.
Nothing seemed organized either. Bizarre breeds, feral, banties, leghorns, cross breeds, hens that looked gang-banged, 1/3 of roosters ready to whoop your ass when ya got out of the truck.
Sheesh
Dorf got what it was asking for
Although I have never encountered an aggressive Muscovy Duck. Had several show up after an epic flood once ripped through our horse farm. They were humble and gentle. They stayed several years. Guess we fed better. Plus we had horse shît to sift through. Mmmm, mmmmpp!!!
Raising my barter price to that this season, feed has gone up quite a bit.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Raising my barter price to that this season, feed has gone up quite a bit.
Yep, for sure.
Friends & family $0 - $4, work acquaintances $5 !
What are these " work acquaintances " you speak of?
I retired, good lort almost five years ago now, and I no longer know those kind of folks.
Oh, I had a dozen with me when I went to town last night, ran into a friend who has gotten some for me in the past. Asked if he wanted some eggs, sure was the answer. I asked if he had $4, he said nope. I told him if he didn't have $4 in his pocket maybe he needed the eggs more than I needed the $4 so I just gave them to him. Work is sometimes hard to come by out here in the sticks.
Last edited by Valsdad; 04/13/22.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Raising my barter price to that this season, feed has gone up quite a bit.
Yep, for sure.
Friends & family $0 - $4, work acquaintances $5 !
Yeah, we'll probably be raising our prices on eggs and honey this year. Local stores are selling "local" honey for $5-$10 more a quart than what we are selling for right now.
BTW, we have friends and family rates too.
===================== Boots were made for walking Winds were blowing change Boys fall in the jungle As I Came of Age
Raising my barter price to that this season, feed has gone up quite a bit.
Yep, for sure.
Friends & family $0 - $4, work acquaintances $5 !
Yeah, we'll probably be raising our prices on eggs and honey this year. Local stores are selling "local" honey for $5-$10 more a quart than what we are selling for right now.
BTW, we have friends and family rates too.
Local feed store has honey from these parts for $20.99 a Mason Jar now.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Raising my barter price to that this season, feed has gone up quite a bit.
Yep, for sure.
Friends & family $0 - $4, work acquaintances $5 !
Yeah, we'll probably be raising our prices on eggs and honey this year. Local stores are selling "local" honey for $5-$10 more a quart than what we are selling for right now.
BTW, we have friends and family rates too.
Local feed store has honey from these parts for $20.99 a Mason Jar now.
We get $20/quart picked up here at the farm, and we sell every drop we can squeeze out of the bees. We also sell to 4 different retail outlets who mark the honey up a few bucks, and it flies off their shelves.
===================== Boots were made for walking Winds were blowing change Boys fall in the jungle As I Came of Age
