Who remembers what good eggs were like?

[Retired Spook]

Wow wish you were closer we sell our extras a lot cheaper than that. Raise your own it's not hard don't get a rooster and it's not that noisy either

You're makin me cry pineywoods I'd be your best customer.

I am not be able to raise chickens where I live.

 

[Retired Spook]

We call them "fancy chickens". Covers several breeds. They lay green, blue and pink eggs

Those might be "Easter Egger" chickens - also known as "Americana" chickens.

Easter Egger's can/do lay various colors - Ameraucana chickens lay blue/green eggs.

I would happily buy any color egg, just so long as it wasn't laid by an old hen raised on dirt and Walmart feed.

 

[Retired Spook]

Our easter eggers are laying blue eggs, we have olive eggers that lay green/olive colored eggs, cuckoo marans that lay copper/chocolate colored eggs and the rest lay light brown to tan eggs. We do have some that are still to young to lay that will produce white eggs

Ha I missed this post before posting my own about Easter Eggers!

 

[Gonna Smoke]

I am fortunate in that we get all of our eggs from a local farmer that we know and they all look like the 1st picture. They're either brown or white, but I've seen just about every color in the rainbow...

 

[FenHoglore]

Green eggs and ham are a delicacy. I believe they even wrote a book about it

Green eggs are good... Green ham, not so much... lol

 

[chilerelleno]

I luv me some duck eggs when I can get'em.

 

[Retired Spook]

I luv me some duck eggs when I can get'em.

Strange as this is going to sound - as much as I love eggs, I've never tried a duck egg...

Cray-cray I know - I've just never had the chance.

 

[chilerelleno]

Strange as this is going to sound - as much as I love eggs, I've never tried a duck egg...

Cray-cray I know - I've just never had the chance.

Duck on left, larger, more flavor and huge yolk, thicker shell and membrane.

 

[Retired Spook]

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Duck on left, larger, more flavor and huge yolk, thicker shell and membrane.

You just snap that?

I cannot find a decent chicken egg anywhere around here so the chances of finding a good duck egg seem exponentially less - but I will keep my eyes peeled.

 

[chilerelleno]

You just snap that?

I cannot find a decent chicken egg anywhere around here so the chances of finding a good duck egg seem exponentially less - but I will keep my eyes peeled.

Nope, that pic is about four years old, early 2018.

 

[Brokenhandle]

So we live in my grandparents house, remodeled after sitting empty for over 20 years. But years ago as a kid my uncle told me they were sitting eating eggs for breakfast when the coal burning furnace burped ( or backfired, whichever term is correct) blew the clean out cover out of the chimney. Black soot covered the dining room, all I remember him saying was " they were such good eggs too!) That would really suck!

Ryan

 

[olaf]

Anyone here remember when eggs looked like this when they hit the pan (firm almost orange yolk sitting tall on the white, and a white that does NOT run across the pan like water - from a young hen that ate high quality feed, good grass AND bugs)?
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NOT this (an egg laid by an OLD hen that was fed the cheapest feed that could be found anywhere in the Country - pale yellow yolk, watery white - sickening):
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Problem is - even for $10 or $12 a dozen - there ARE no good eggs anymore. Even the Farmer's Market eggs around here are Walmart eggs. Its disgusting.

OK rant off - have a great day!

That "walmart egg" is still labeled as grade A. I've noticed the same, local eggs for me have been hit or miss.

 

[Buffalo Smoke]

I have 6 Black Astralorp hens get 4-6 eggs a day sell the extras at $2 a dozen. We have a lot of predators here so unable to free range but they do get to roam while being watched several times a week. Haven't bought eggs in a store for a very long time.

 

[Retired Spook]

Now all I have to do if find one of you kind folks with fresh eggs for sale that lives somewhere close to me here in the 9th circle of hell / central Texas...

 

[noboundaries]

From the USDA website:

Eggs are categorized into one of three consumer grades:

• USDA Grade AA – The freshest and highest quality eggs will receive a Grade AA.
• USDA Grade A – Very high quality eggs will receive a Grade A.
• USDA Grade B – Grade B eggs are usually used for breaking stock (liquid eggs) and baking, dependingon the number of defects.

I did not know any of this until this thread. I'll be going to the store today and look at the grades of all the eggs they sell.

 

[Retired Spook]

From the USDA website:

Eggs are categorized into one of three consumer grades:

• USDA Grade AA – The freshest and highest quality eggs will receive a Grade AA.
• USDA Grade A – Very high quality eggs will receive a Grade A.
• USDA Grade B – Grade B eggs are usually used for breaking stock (liquid eggs) and baking, dependingon the number of defects.

I did not know any of this until this thread. I'll be going to the store today and look at the grades of all the eggs they sell.

I do not trust the government on anything anymore.

I am certain that what they call AA today, was B, 10-years ago.

 

[noboundaries]

Quite possibly.

 

[bill1]

I'm with Ray on a lot of this. I've had "friends and family" who've had chickens and the eggs vary from just a bit stronger than a store-bought egg to some chicken breed so unique that the egg tasted quite different. None of these though I would prefer to store-bought eggs.

I'm not sure why, but store-bought eggs (and I find walmart no different from Safeway) certainly run like crazy on a pan. I think I have my new griddle pretty well leveled...both cooking oil and cleaning water stays where I squirt it. But I have to fry my eggs toward the upper right corner since that's the direction they run to.

And I sensed no difference (neither in taste nor viscosity) when eggs became "cage-free". I think I heard that cage-free means the back of the cage is open so a chicken can go out for a stroll and fresh air. But with free food and drugs in the front of the cage, I believe most chickens choose the less adventurous route!

Now I do not have a well-developed palate so take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm quite happy with Rolling Rock instead of the IPAs I used to buy.

 

[Retired Spook]

I betcha if you taste them side-by-side you would notice a difference - especially the yolk!

 

[bill1]

I betcha if you taste them side-by-side you would notice a difference - especially the yolk!

Oh I definitely taste the difference...that's what I meant by stronger. But I didn't find that taste preferable or desirable--that's all I meant. And the price, packaging, and convenience of the store-bought eggs definitely gets a nod here.

Now whiskey just can't get strong enough for my taste. So I guess bourbon doesnt come from chickens.