Blue egg layers in China

[AlvinXsu-KMG]

Hi! Do people in China also believe that certain egg colors make the egg healthier or better tasting? For instance, people here (Hawaii), often believe that brown eggs are better than white. Green or blue eggs have less cholesterol, etc.

yeah!This topic is so funny. Hawaii has such an idea. As a traditional China, there are many of them.

About eggs, after decades of European and American breeds entering China, we believe that brown eggs are even more delicious. But it turned out that there was no local chicken laying such dark brown eggs in China. (Chinese local chicken lays pink, white, blue eggs) people begin to prefer light colored eggs. But white is not included here. People think pure white eggs are not nutritious.
Of course, they do not include Taiwan and Hongkong. They prefer pure white eggs

Apart from eggs, what is interesting is the color of the chicken feet and the number of toes.
People living in Southwest China like chicken with green feet and black feet. The chicken feet with this color mean more than two times the price.

Chinese living in the south only like chickens with yellow feet, and never eat white feet chickens, and five-toed chickens do not eat, they say it is the incarnation of Phoenix. hahhah~

Eastern people can accept it all, but darker skin color is more popular, and Black-boned chickens are expensive.

Northern Chinese prefer foreign breeds because most of the best local chickens come from southern China.

 

[ChickNanny13]

Hi! Do people in China also believe that certain egg colors make the egg healthier or better tasting? For instance, people here (Hawaii), often believe that brown eggs are better than white. Green or blue eggs have less cholesterol, etc.

I was one of them, thought green eggs had less cholesterol Have learned differently since

 

[Twoleggedmotherhen]

Thank You for sharing the Chickens, eggs, and history of your Country. The chickens are beautiful and the egg colors are spectacular.

 

[cinalee]

Thanks for sharing and spending so much time on these wonderful, informative posts. Looking forward to hearing and seeing more if time permits.

 

[wildgreenegg]

Oooh. I have more questions! How about yolk color? Here in the U.S. the nice dark yolk color is all the rage. I think it's kind of like making a chicken egg look like a duck egg. Just my opinion. People add things to the food to make dark orange-yellow yolks. Some use paprika, a form of powdered mild red peppers. Commercial chicken foods can have tagetes added to them to make the yolks that dark yellow. In fact, I have tagetes here and am waiting to grow it out to feed to The Buttercup, my egg laying rescue chicken. Thoughts? Do people in China prefer dark yolks or does it even matter if they can just get duck eggs?--Not so easy here in the U.S. In fact, I am going to ask The Husband to go to China Town to buy fresh duck eggs tomorrow...

 

[wildgreenegg]

Getting late here. Just thought I would share a little funny. Some of my cats have nick names along with their "real names." For instance, my white cat, Manapua. Another, Look-fun, another Pork Hash, and finally, Half Moon. As you can see, the beginning of a dim sum menu...

 

[AlvinXsu-KMG]

Oooh. I have more questions! How about yolk color? Here in the U.S. the nice dark yolk color is all the rage. I think it's kind of like making a chicken egg look like a duck egg. Just my opinion. People add things to the food to make dark orange-yellow yolks. Some use paprika, a form of powdered mild red peppers. Commercial chicken foods can have tagetes added to them to make the yolks that dark yellow. In fact, I have tagetes here and am waiting to grow it out to feed to The Buttercup, my egg laying rescue chicken. Thoughts? Do people in China prefer dark yolks or does it even matter if they can just get duck eggs?--Not so easy here in the U.S. In fact, I am going to ask The Husband to go to China Town to buy fresh duck eggs tomorrow...

Chinese prefer orange yolks to yellow. Usually, the local chicken stocked in the mountain has dark yolk. But now many chicken farms have begun to use oxygenin and lutein, and when things are discovered, people no longer pursue darker yolk color. Some people still use the petals of marigold to feed the hens to get deeper yolk.

As for duck eggs, you should know that there are too many kinds of Chinese food. People usually don't mix chicken eggs with duck eggs and goose eggs. Because there taste are different. Duck eggs are often pickled to make salted duck eggs. Goose eggs need more spices to cook.

 

[wildgreenegg]

Hi! I do love salted duck egg! I am actually going to use the duck eggs in baking banana bread for a special friend. If I can get it. Duck eggs and quail eggs(fresh) are very difficult to find here. My father used to love duck eggs fried over-easy with toast. And yes! So many different kinds of Chinese food! Last year I started experimenting using the fermented tofu sold in jars (the white and the red). I really like it, the taste is better than miso or daeng jang.---Sorry to get off topic!
What do you feed your chickens? I buy organic feed from Costco. With only two birds, it lasts a really, really long time.

 

[Mimi13]

Apologies if I posted twice. Early morning for you, late at night for me. In fact, my brain was trying to figure out if you were ahead many hours for me or vice versa. I think you are ahead. Anyway, thank you. I enjoyed reading your information. Good night!

How funny, because my DH is in China right now on business and I always have to count up 14 hours to figure out what he’s doing, more specifically, what he’s eating! I’m always amazed. So I completely understand what you’re saying.

And @AlvinXsu-KMG, thank you so much for all this information. I absolutely love it.

 

[AlvinXsu-KMG]

Hi! I do love salted duck egg! I am actually going to use the duck eggs in baking banana bread for a special friend. If I can get it. Duck eggs and quail eggs(fresh) are very difficult to find here. My father used to love duck eggs fried over-easy with toast. And yes! So many different kinds of Chinese food! Last year I started experimenting using the fermented tofu sold in jars (the white and the red). I really like it, the taste is better than miso or daeng jang.---Sorry to get off topic!
What do you feed your chickens? I buy organic feed from Costco. With only two birds, it lasts a really, really long time.

I'm glad you like Chinese food. It's especially like pickled tofu and so on. You said it should be sufu, I think.

In fact, fresh duck eggs and goose eggs are hard to buy in China, unless they are in rural markets far from cities. Duck eggs in cities are always pickled. Fresh chicken eggs and quail eggs are common, and blue eggs are usually more expensive.

I was fed chicken like this, usually giving them fodder and grain two months ago. Then give them all the grain, because China's fodder always adds many other things, although growing fast, but affect the quality of chicken and eggs. Grain will make them better.