how do you make eggs taste better?

[Organics North]

IMO commercial feed, high in corn and soy makes for a "store bought" tasting egg...

Alan's advice on lots of greens will help. Free range! or rotational pasture... I also feed 10% alfalfa meal along with sprouts, in my whole grain feed.

Bugs and grass is what makes them taste good...

ON

 

[Tala]

Apparently baby snakes will do the trick too!

I free range all day every day!!! Even in the winter the birds seem to find SOMETHING to fill their crops with, although I'm not even sure what they are eating!!

 

[Jen71]

A friend told me that soft puppy pellets (puppy food) are great for chickens?
He said the quality of the eggs improves dramatically??

Has anyone else heard this?
I thought he was probably comparing that to just feeding chickens your kitchen scraps, but I am not sure.

 

[MuranoFarms]

When you weed the garden, throw the weeds into the run. Give them a handful of grass clippings when you mow. Yank the dandelions from the yard and toss them to the chickens. They love dandelions!

We have these little flowering weeds that grow in the gravel behind the shed. I pull them out and throw them to the chooks and they fight over them. (why they don't walk their lazy butts across the yard and get them their selves....I'll never understand! lol)

 

[Headcock]

thanks for all the advice!!
I just wanted to produce gourmet eggs.
I see I have to let them free range more and
feed them more greens.

 

[chauqg]

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I feed the Layena or Blue Seal and free range every day.... Eggs are excellent. I do watch what treats and table scraps that I feed: no grease, potato peals, onion parts, garlic; feed mostly fresh greens, lettuce, cabbage, carrots and garden trimmings......... There is a good list of what to feed and what not to feed somewhere on BYC.

Good Luck

 

[Kim_NC]

I'll chime in on the greens. If they can't free range, then feed it to them - grass clippings, clover, weeds, leafy veggies like lettuces, cabbage.

Also, anything orange - pumpkin, carrots, sweet potato, although mine prefer the carrots or sweet potatoes softened a bit by cooking.