how do you make eggs taste better?

[Headcock]

Please dont say salt, but what can I feed my layers to get better tasting eggs?
I'm using layena, scratch and table scraps.

 

[poultrygeist]

You need new chickens

 

[gritsar]

Do you free range at all? My hens eggs are always delicious, but my flock free ranges all day long.

 

[Chick CJ]

How do they taste now? Are they bland, or do they have a bad taste?
CJ

 

[FaereChicken]

I've noticed since we lost the roo and the girls are inthe tractor pretty much full time, the eggs are not quite so spectacular

 

[Illia]

I was just going to say what gritsar said - My eggs are so delicious they don't need seasonings.

- And that is because they're free ranged.

 

[Backyard_Chicken_rancher]

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ok I won't but how about Garlic

Sorry I had to do it...

I would say they are getting older and their eggs are not tasting as good because of that maybe you should consider getting new younger hens and culling the older one's when the youngins get to laying age..

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Green feed. Fresh and plenty of it. Young tender grass, green leafy vegetables, and so on.

.....Alan.

 

[WoodlandWoman]

A long time ago, before I free ranged, my chicken's eggs didn't look or taste that much better than store eggs. After I started free ranging, wow! They are delicious and have a rich flavor, as well as a dark orange yolk. During our long winters, if I don't supplement their diet with green feed, I can notice a difference in the quality of their eggs.

If you can free range, even in a limited way, I'd say do it. If you can't, I'd still try to get them more green feed. Things like grasses and dark leafy greens from the garden. Maybe you could sow some garden flats or pots to rotate into the run. Or plant grasses in the run and cover the sections with protective, wire-covered frames. A 2 x 4 frame with hardware cloth over the top works. Maybe some of the plastic garden flat trays that are really sturdy, open grids, that hold other plant containers, flipped over on the ground. Their design is sort of like a milk crate, but they are much larger and very shallow. Then, they could eat the grasses growing up through the openings, but not eat them down to the ground or scratch up the roots. A little chicken garden in your yard could have greens in it, that you could toss into their run, too.

 

[digitS']

I really want to cast a vote for the fresh green feed as a way to improve the taste of eggs. It really makes a lot of difference. During the winter, the hens can't get at the backyard grass - which really seems to be their favorite forage. Their eggs become much more bland.

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Might be better to feed garlic to the hens

: Clemson University did taste tests and found that people preferred eggs from garlic-eating hens. "The tasters said the eggs were milder from the chickens eating garlic than from the control hens" ScienceDaily

I'll be putting my hens back on garlic in their feed in a few weeks. Far less than what Clemson fed their laying hens and, honestly, I don't notice any difference garlic makes in the taste of their eggs.

However, even tho' a garlic/herb mix is often sprinkled on things in my kitchen, I usually put Tabasco sauce on my eggs

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Steve