You guys were so right!

[Wildsky]

so are you getting more chickens now?

I was amazed at not only the orange yolk and taste - but how those yolks stood up like little balls and not all flattend out!

 

[Scrambled Egg]

and...as I learned on this forum...the more alfalfa you feed those little chicken piggies, the more orange the egg yolks will be, no kidding!!

 

[bantymum]

Number 1) dont store your eggs next to the onions, tuna or other smelly stuff in the fridge.
Store the eggs with the flat bun side down to center the yolk.
If you separate the egg yolk for cooking break the egg with the bun side down in your right hand and the white will slip out the top.
Chooks that are able to forage in the grass have a rich yellow egg as do chooks that are fed lettuce!
Eggs that have just been laid have a bit more gas in them and explode into the frypan, so best to use day old eggs!!!

 

[lauralou]

Redfeathers,

I get to eat my first egg this morning! Yea! I hope it is as yummy as yours was.

 

[Churkenduse]

Well, welcome to the real world of real eggs. Now your life will never be the same again without a "home grown" egg.

I could not imagine living without them now.

and CRYSMOM I never have to put salt on, they have a flavor that you don't need anything at all.

I have farm eggs before that is why I wanted my own so bad. YYYYUUUUUMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

 

[MissPrissy]

It seems you have been assimulated.

 

[Redfeathers]

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I noticed that too Wildsky, I think I studied it far too long. lol I almost didn't eat it since it was the very first egg from the chickens I had raised from babies, but then I thought I was being silly and I fried that baby up!!

No eggs yesterday though. I'm hopeful for today.

And MissPrissy is right. I really have been. lol

 

[MissPrissy]

If you want better eggs to cook with store them on your counter top.

I have a basket in my kitchen. all the eggs from the weekend go in there. That is what I cook with during the week (plus more). Your eggs will keep perfectly fine for 2 or 3 weeks without going in the fridge and your cooked goods especially baked goods will be better than ever.

If I give eggs away or sell them I do refrigerate them. Some people have a thing about eggs being cold.

I don't wash either. If there is something on them I wipe it off, that is all. No washing.

 

[Yogiman]

Scrambled Egg wrote:
as I learned on this forum...the more alfalfa you feed those little chicken piggies, the more orange the egg yolks will be, no kidding!!

Now I'm going to realy show my ignorance. Please humor me if you would. Is that for real? Alfalfa as in what form?
I sometimes see a little of alfalfa hay in the feed stores but that's it. Very interesting. Would like to know more.

Miss Prissy: Any comment and or advise?

 

[MissPrissy]

I buy alfalfa cubes for my goats and toss a few to the chickens. In cold weather I soak them in hot water first. i have also been known to sprout seed and feed them the sprouts. I have a 5lb bag of seed in the cellar waiting on me now. I feed it to my overly stressed husband too when I grow wheat grass for juicing.