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chickens eat grain, and so have too much omega 6 Free range, not so much.
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chickens eat grain, and so have too much omega 6 Free range, not so much. again, "free range" is a marketing term, focused on hens, not feed. "Free range" eggs are indistinguishable from battery-hen eggs. "omega three eggs" are also a marketing monstrosity, as many are also marketed as "vegetarian". The omega-3 comes from flax seed. Turning a chicken into a vegetarian creates runny, vapid eggs. Barn yard or "pasture raised" hens will lay eggs with good lipid profiles and other good culinary properties.
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I wonder how many eggs are used every day in the US? 23 I thought the answer to everything was 42. I'll have to think about it. As to eggs I get farm eggs all the time from friends. Defiantly better- certainly darker.. I had heard that perhaps sunshine also attributed to the darker color. Could be wives tale.
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chickens eat grain, and so have too much omega 6 Free range, not so much. again, "free range" is a marketing term, focused on hens, not feed. "Free range" eggs are indistinguishable from battery-hen eggs. I believe I was the one who made that point in post number one. I'm using it here, however, in the sense that it was used before it became a legal term (i.e., the authentic sense), i.e., chickens are released from their confines first thing in the morning (not constrained by an enclosure of any kind), they put themselves up inside the hen house by dusk, and get locked up against predators till morning, at which time the process is repeated.
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We are lousy gardeners, but seem to be pretty good at keeping chickens. So we give our extra eggs to a couple of neighbors who are really good gardeners, and we get plenty of goodies from their gardens. It works well for of all of us.
The chickens love to get out in the late afternoons and take a dust bath and scratch around here and there looking for bugs and seeds. Another advantage of this for us is that some of the bugs they find are really nasty things like scorpions. So while some neighbors are plagued by scorpions, we almost never see any. Our yard is a very unhealthy place to be a bug.
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We are lousy gardeners, but seem to be pretty good at keeping chickens. So we give our extra eggs to a couple of neighbors who are really good gardeners, and we get plenty of goodies from their gardens. It works well for of all of us.
The chickens love to get out in the late afternoons and take a dust bath and scratch around here and there looking for bugs and seeds. Another advantage of this for us is that some of the bugs they find are really nasty things like scorpions. So while some neighbors are plagued by scorpions, we almost never see any. Our yard is a very unhealthy place to be a bug. From experience, chickens can absolutely "DESTROY" a garden! Sure....they will keep the bug population down, but they will also eat every bloom they can get to and a red tomato is irresistible to a chicken!
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If the garden is next to the chicken yard, giant zucchinis can be cut lengthwise and thrown over the fence. The hens will hollow it out in minutes.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
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We've contemplated several yrs now, but our neighbor is getting 20+eggs a day and cant grow Asparagus for crap. Our Asparagus is currently booming so we barter for eggs. They are young and love the work....we be getting old and love the results
...good trade!!
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We've contemplated several yrs now, but our neighbor is getting 20+eggs a day and cant grow Asparagus for crap. Our Asparagus is currently booming so we barter for eggs. They are young and love the work....we be getting old and love the results
...good trade!! Exactly.
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