Is this true??

[D'Angelo N Va.]

This thread was very interesting...I will have to check into that the next time I am in Europe....what a difference....

 

[Dixiedoodle]

Farm fresh eggs taste great no matter the color !! I love brown eggs because I love the heavy breeds and most of those lay brown eggs! I love my bearded /muffed true Ameraucanas and I love those blue eggs, I also loved my green eggs and will love my chocolate colored eggs when my Marans start to lay and white eggs when I get my Light Brown Leghorns!! LOL...

 

[YoYofranko]

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Yeh i agree, its the same in UK to buy a free range chicken it costs a bomb so nobody bothers, poor chickens have a horrible life.

I love this forum its so much better than the English one i learn so much, Thanks everyone

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Here in New England the preference is brown eggs. Most of the rest of America prefer white. It's all on what your brought up with so becomes a comfort food. Funny too, as the eggs only taste different with different feed. Personally I can't wait for next springs bug hatches. Yum!

White eggs are cheaper here too. The market takes into account prolific Leghorns that require less feed.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

My favorite egg is the Cadbury egg!

 

[YoYofranko]

I gotta say i love a cadbury cream egg!

 

[Highlander]

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Really? Not in any of the shops I go to unfortunately. Sadly the battery egg business is still booming over here and the big supermarket chains are all still selling eggs from caged/barn hens. I'm not sure where you do your grocery shopping that you don't see these products but I can assure you the shelves are full of them. I believe that consumers are becoming more educated and I am sure that the sales of free-range products has risen substantially over the last few years thanks to campaigns by high profile people like Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall but unfortunately I think we are a long way off from having no caged or barn eggs in the shops.

With regards to the brown egg white egg question as someone pointed out earlier the battery hen of choice in the US is the Leghorn and in Europe it is the Isa Brown/Production Red I would assume that because they are sex-linked it would be easy to separate the pullets from the cockerels at hatch and therefore minimising the risks of vent sexing wrongly and wasting feed on a cockerel - just a guess though.

 

[YoYofranko]

This is wierd because everytime i would shop for eggs (before i had my own) i wouldn't have to search for free range because every shelve i see always seemed to be free range and i dont know anyone that still buys battery eggs. Tonight i'll be going to the supermarket just to check this out because i'm very confused now.

 

[YoYofranko]

Ok just been on Asda website and yes there own eggs are battery but most of the eggs there are free range and to be honest with you the difference in price is only about 15p an egg which for the sake of the poor chickens is worth paying. 15 types of free range over 5 not is still a transformation from what used to be. I think your right about Jamie Oliver he did open alot of peoples eyes.

This is the starting paragraph to something i just read on the bbc news website:
Britain will press ahead with outlawing the production of battery-farmed eggs by 2012, the government has confirmed.

 

[woodmort]

Here "free range" is a very loose term that has been applied to birds that aren't caged but have a large window at the end of the barn that opens to the outside. They are never actually allowed out. It's like "farm fresh" on month old eggs.