Eggs taste HORRIBLE!!! Spit out first bite! :(

[ronott1]

I have 4 Rhode Island Reds and they love to listen to Christian music with me!

Nice!

 

[Chickassan]

The only place is the compost pile. But there shouldn't have been that many. I think I will block that off today. Would it be from eating something in the pig pen? spilled feed?

Your pig feed have alot of soybean in it?

 

[cowboyclayt]

Your pig feed have alot of soybean in it?

18%

 

[JaeG]

That's no good at all to not be able to enjoy your girls yummy eggs. Citrus can give eggs a nasty taste which is why it's on the 'avoid' food list. It's not bad for the chickens, it'll just give you not so tasty eggs. You can give chickens garlic free choice and they love it but are able to self medicate and won't eat too much. But mixing it into their water or feed can lead to garlicky eggs if you use too much.

The taste and nutrition in an egg is a direct result of the kind of diet they are consuming, so they must be eating something that's giving their eggs a bad taste. I hope you get to the bottom of it.

 

[Chickassan]

18%

If they're sneaking a good amount of pig feed that very well could make the eggs taste off.

 

[featherhead007]

Inside?

yes inside, probably for the air conditioning too,

 

[featherhead007]

when i have the best birds in the world, i pamper them a lot. sometimes i even take all of them 12 in my lexus for a drive around my 22 acre property

 

[QIA]

An other poster found his birds were munching on the playground mulch he was using under his kid's play gym. The stuff was heavily laced with a fire retardant, in addition to the dyes used on the product. And they sell this stuff for our kids to be exposed to????

I'm guessing the birds are finding something in the yard. F/U ??? Is the yard treated with insecticide/herbicide/fungicide? Do the birds have access to that treated grass? Any such chemicals used in the garden? Or is mulch materials brought in from outside source?

I always have to balance the need for mulching materials with the risk of bringing them onto my property. I always ask LOTS of questions before bringing anything home. Even when buying hay, always from the same farmer, but I ask him every season: "Any fields you cut been treated with any pesticides/herbicides?" I'm always pleased when I break open a bale of hay and find it loaded with weedy plants.

Good point, something I hadn't thought of.....

 

[lazy gardener]

Are the pigs eating old produce from the grocer? If so, and that produce has been sprayed, the chickens may be ingesting enough insecticide to be an issue.

 

[cowboyclayt]

Are the pigs eating old produce from the grocer? If so, and that produce has been sprayed, the chickens may be ingesting enough insecticide to be an issue.

Nope. Good thought though.