what difference (nutritional facts) TRUE free ranged eggs vs store egg

I don't know about any of the facts. Just crack open a store egg and a free range egg and look at them. Then fry and taste each. If you can't tell the difference, you have been drinking to much corn squeezins. Almost as much as I have had trying to answer this one.

Anybody got any homemade chickenfeed recipes?

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I think there is one in the recipes thread. just do a recipes search and you should be able to locate it.

Thanx. By the way, I was looking at this old thread and started thinking. I'm so used to real eggs I do not like the taste of store bought eggs anymore I tried a boiled egg at the hotel and it wAs so bad I had to throw it away. I guess we've cotton so used to bad food we don't know the difference anymore. I guess that's what MSG is far

Nice information Paduan. Thanks for taking the time to put it together. I have always been aware that manufacturing has effected the quality of both eggs and chicken just like it has vegetables. I would also say that taste is a good way to experience that difference as well. Good food tastes good unless you are talking about spinach lol. I have through other activities seen the difference a varied and more natural diet can do for the growth and health of an animal. The number one case was when I had fish in an aquarium. giving them an extremely wide variety of foods, including live foods caused them in some cases to grow 4 times as fast. I have also read some information that the actual Hunt or Foraging actually makes a difference. Sort of like it triggers hormones or whatever in the animal. That is sort of getting out there on a limb with the issue though. It is pretty easy to say that a foraging Chicken get far more exorcise though, and we all know what exorcise does for your health. I find it hard to believe that a healthier bird would not be in better shape to produce a better egg. just sort of common since to me. one way to try and establish that would be to look at fertility rates and hatch rates of ranged birds compared to hatched birds. not proof by any means but data at the very least as to the health of the egg. After all a fertile egg is a living creature.

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Wow! Some great info. there paduanchook!! And I agree with your logic penturner! I was wondering how I'd missed this thread, only to discover that it came up well before I became a member...lol. So I'm glad it's come up again!

Being a southerner, I can smell a fresh egg cooking on the stove with cheese grits and biscuits with homemade jellies/jams. Umm ummmmm

With egg recalls, I thot of this thread. @ bump @

I can sure tell if my hens have been on the grass you might say we live in the mountains and during the winter they are almost totaly on feed but in the spring and summer they get to eat what they want end the eggs sure tell the differance