SC - Egg shell colours

[Marilyn Traber]

I know when we had layers, the free range brown eggs[rhode island reds] tasted
better than brown battery eggs, and even the free range white or brown egg. But
then again, ours were free range and ate unmedicated feeds[and presumabley bugs
too]
margali


> so if my theory is correct, its not the color of the shell that makes 'em
> better, but the lifestyle of the chicken. So, free range white shelled eggs
> would have the same results as your brown shelled eggs?
>
> When I took french cooking classes the chef swore by free range eggs, and
> would buy the araconda eggs with the green and yellow and pink shells. And
> his cakes and custards were indeed to die for...he always said its the bugs
> that made the difference (the bugs the chickens ate, one assumes...)
>
> anyone wanna volunteer to do a side by side controlled experiment? :)
>
> --AM, your resident science geek :D

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