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Roy > wrote:

> > The color of the yolks of a free range chicken is dark yellow-orange
> > and the taste is different as well. * Those eggs just
> > FEEL better to me, so I figure my body likes them better.
> >
> > I guess it's a personal thing.
>
> ==
> Eggs have "vibes" now? I don't think so...I was brought up on a farm
> and never discovered this quality about eggs. Yolks from free range
> hens are dark yellow or orange because the hens eat green grass...no
> other reason. Exposing chickens to every thing going on their free
> range is not healthier than caging birds but you should ask a
> veterinarian about that. Some of the vile stuff than chickens eat on
> free range might change your mind if you were to observe their habits.
> I like eggs but I prefer those that come from healthy chickens fed
> proper rations, and raised in comfortable surroundings.

"Comfortable" surroundings include free ranging to eat bugs and grass
and stuff. <g> Those eggs are much higher in nutrient content.

My hens were free in a hen yard so they were protected and happy, but it
was rapidly denuded of green stuff. I fed them with a proper ration and
supplemented them with table scraps and rabbit pellets that contained
mostly alfalfa. The alfalfa pellet trick I learned from another poultry
owner.

It colored the yolks that deep orange and added nutrition and flavor to
the eggs. :-)

So what is wrong with free range eggs? What the hens eat, granted, is
converted into the eggs, but it's not like you are actually eating
crickets!

No more so than when you eat most commercial beef that has been raised
on rotten grain, otherwise known as "silage".

Uncaged birds are less stressed too, and they don't have to cut 1/2 of
their upper beaks off to prevent them from eating each other...
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