Sweet Tasting Eggs

[Sweetpea325]

I'd like to find out if anyone else has "sweet tasting" eggs? I let my hens free range (as much as I can during the winter) and give them lettuce during the winter when everything is dead. I also give them layer pellets and some mealworm treats. And I do not have a roo.

Does the sweet taste mean I'm not giving them something they need or I'm giving them too much of something??

 

[Nuggett]

Sweetpea,

I was actually looking for the answer to that myself. Last week our Rhode Island Red started laying eggs. She laid 5 in 7 days. We were so excited to see her first one! Well this weekend, we figured we better start eating them. I cooked egg one and two and gave it back to her. She loved it. I cooked egg 3, 4 and 5 and my husband and I ate them. The yolk was darker in color and sweet tasting. We didn't care much for the sweet in our eggs. Having said that, we cook and feed our 3 chickens sweet corn as a treat along with their chicken feed. I'm thinking that is my answer. Any expert chicken owners out there that can confirm?

Thanks!

 

[Tinman0ut]

Hello from the future I’m also interested in this and have been looking for sources to explain why my eggs have a sweet taste to them... every customer I get that buys my eggs says that my eggs are almost too sweet to use in anything besides baked goods... my chickens are free range (in the desert, so no unknown foliage as there isn’t any), have access to clean water 24/7 (drip waterer that’s in their run that they have access to at all times), and they have access to 16% protein feed and oyster shells for calcium... and they rarely get treats from the house (fruit and veggie scraps mostly)... hoping this will get this post bumped back up and maybe get an answer

 

[Celestial_Nymph]

I saw on reddit someone had a similar problem their final response was "Update: it seems that taking animal protein out of her diet decreased the sweet egg taste a lot." Hope that helps!