Cruciferous vegetables changing egg flavor?

[GallusSapiens]

My flock loves cauliflower. (Not yet very interested in broccoli or cabbage.) My mother told me that "a chicken lady" at a flea market told her that a diet including cruciferous vegetables will make the eggs taste funny. I can't find anyone else making such a claim? Has anyone had this experience. We have no eggs yet (and not much left over cruciferous vegetables either) to be able to judge. Any experiences that would confirm or deny this claim?

 

[janinepeters]

Interesting. No, I have no experience feeding cauliflower other than the occasional scraps of it that I throw into the compost (which they forage in), but it would certainly not surprise that feeding a lot of one type of food could affect the flavor of the eggs. Every now and then a hard boiled egg tastes a little off, and I just assume it has something to do with what the hen was eating. I kind of think a varied diet is best anyway, though, and would feed them lots of different kinds of vegetable scraps. Sometimes it just takes them awhile to acquire a taste for new foods. Ours eat pretty much anything, now.

 

[BeulahBreezes]

Well, I am new at 'chicken-ing', but.......I remember a "few" years ago when I was a young breastfeeding mom, I was told to becareful of the cruciferous vegetables...they can change the flavor of your milk and make the baby gassy too.....(wouldn't want gassy chickens! lol, lol!!)~Beulah

 

[chfite]

Mine eat cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, spinach, kale, tomatoes, tomato plants, carrots, watermelon, cantaloupe, green beans, cucumbers, all manner of things left over from food preparation and from meals. Eggs taste the same.

Chris