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[NatJ]

You know, this is going to be an unpopular statement, but I really don't notice a taste difference.

Me either. And I know a number of other people that cannot taste a difference between store-bought and home-raise eggs.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

i have no taste, so I'm staying out of this portion of the discussion,

 

[Bhubbard]

I'm glad. It was meant to be funny!

Well duh. Bill Gates owns stock in Google too.

You know, this is going to be an unpopular statement, but I really don't notice a taste difference.

I think I notice it most if they are hard boiled… I put too much hot sauce on scrambled eggs to matter.

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

And with all of that this thread has fallen off the rails, yet another unsubscribe.

 

[BelovedBirds]

Me either. And I know a number of other people that cannot taste a difference between store-bought and home-raise eggs.

I'd say "I noticed a difference!", but I realised that I actually only ever tried store bought chicken eggs, not duck eggs. So of course theyre different. Still!

Mine probably taste VERY similar to store duck eggs, since I hatched my girls from store eggs. They should be the same as their hens in theory. If there's any difference, I'm sure mine are better

 

[Bhubbard]

I think the taste might be associated with time to store. I’m sure it’s on this site somewhere and has been talked about. I would assume it’s a few weeks before egg gets to shelf making it older …. Just because it won’t kill you doesn’t mean it tastes good.

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

Re eggs tasting the same at the store

It isn't the taste for me, it is knowing the hen got to run outside in the sunshine and scratch her little heart out all day and take dust bathes in the shade of trees /shrubs I planted for her and then.... Curl up into a little fluff ball on a roost made of a tree branch I cut just for her.

It is hard to think that if I buy store eggs I am contributing to a hen living in a metal building without windows. That is more than taste... My eggs taste like love. I know "this little egg was a gift from Charlotte" and when I give her snacks or make my "delicious" special pudding (by adding water to feed) I make sure her bigger sisters don't crowd her out of the bowl.

My old girls didn't lay much this winter because they are super old and it was winter in Canada (a it was a very grey winter, very few sunny days, which I know because it was a very snowy year and snow falls from clouds) but I didn't buy store eggs... I took an egg break too.

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

I'd say "I noticed a difference!", but I realised that I actually only ever tried store bought chicken eggs, not duck eggs. So of course theyre different. Still!

Mine probably taste VERY similar to store duck eggs, since I hatched my girls from store eggs. They should be the same as their hens in theory. If there's any difference, I'm sure mine are better

I agree your eggs MUST be better. The store's ducks likely get very few cuddles and maybe don't even have names!
And we definitely agree that eggs taste better if the duck/hen has a name... (Cute names, clever names, names that make you smile when you look at the baby waddling up to you in the morning, squawking about something she HAS to tell you)

definitely better eggs...

 

[BelovedBirds]

Re eggs tasting the same at the store

It isn't the taste for me, it is knowing the hen got to run outside in the sunshine and scratch her little heart out all day and take dust bathes in the shade of trees /shrubs I planted for her and then.... Curl up into a little fluff ball on a roost made of a tree branch I cut just for her.

It is hard to think that if I buy store eggs I am contributing to a hen living in a metal building without windows. That is more than taste... My eggs taste like love. I know "this little egg was a gift from Charlotte" and when I give her snacks or make my "delicious" special pudding (by adding water to feed) I make sure her bigger sisters don't crowd her out of the bowl.

My old girls didn't lay much this winter because they are super old and it was winter in Canada (a it was a very grey winter, very few sunny days, which I know because it was a very snowy year and snow falls from clouds) but I didn't buy store eggs... I took an egg break too.

Same for me!
I stopped eating store eggs years ago. I only eat eggs now because I know they're from very happy healthy ducks!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Same for me!
I stopped eating store eggs years ago. I only eat eggs now because I know they're from very happy healthy ducks!

Same.

Oh. Only chickens, not ducks. Healthy eggs, happy hens.