Burford Brown eggs from Clarence Court

MissInterpreted

Why, it's just the truth - it's what they do. The smallholding where we get our eggs also has horses and donkeys, so the chickens will be roaming around picking all sorts up. Wonder if some people would refuse to eat veg which had been grown in manure, for instance?

That’s why I am very careful about the provenance of the eggs I buy.

David49

MissInterpreted

Why, it's just the truth - it's what they do. The smallholding where we get our eggs also has horses and donkeys, so the chickens will be roaming around picking all sorts up. Wonder if some people would refuse to eat veg which had been grown in manure, for instance?

That’s quite likely in allotments and home gardens, commercial veg has to be grown in land that has NOT had manure for 12 months.

Yes, I was referring to homegrown veg. We've always used manure in our garden. However, as I understand it, farmers and market gardens can still use manure, provided that they meet certain conditions.

The colour of the yolk or the shell does not indicate better quality - of poultry care nor nutritional value. Breed determines the shell colour and diet largely determines the yolk’s shade of yellow. I had Indian Runner ducks and lots of chickens over very many years, pure breed large fowl, hybrids and a few bantams. They free-ranged in the garden and paddock so they had a wide variety of fresh food, with organic layers’ pellets and corn. Too many foxes now to go back to keeping my own but I strictly buy only organic eggs. I’m pretty sure Clarence Court eggs aren’t certified organic.

www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/best-eggs-free-range-organic-woodland-barn/

Colorants have been added to hen food for a long time. The reason being that hens that range on herbage lay eggs with yellower yolks It’s all to make you think they are better fed chucks
As chefs say we eat with our eyes.

We buy our eggs from a local greengrocer/fishmonger. They are extra large double yolkers, guaranteed free range. Beautiful eggs.

You are right, twiglet77 they aren't organic.

MissInterpreted

David49

MissInterpreted

Why, it's just the truth - it's what they do. The smallholding where we get our eggs also has horses and donkeys, so the chickens will be roaming around picking all sorts up. Wonder if some people would refuse to eat veg which had been grown in manure, for instance?

That’s quite likely in allotments and home gardens, commercial veg has to be grown in land that has NOT had manure for 12 months.

Yes, I was referring to homegrown veg. We've always used manure in our garden. However, as I understand it, farmers and market gardens can still use manure, provided that they meet certain conditions.

The rules are there because “manure” could be rotted farm yard manure that could be fairly safe or it could be fresh chicken or pig manure that definitely wouldn’t be safe, there are plenty of risks

I bought Burford Brown eggs for years but stopped because the shells were so fragile and the yolks kept breaking. I think the quality dropped when they became so mass produced. Now I buy the Chestnut Maran eggs from Tesco.

I used to buy these on a regular basis from Sainsbury’s. However, I got fed up with cracking them and finding the yolk had run into the white. Not just one but the majority. This didn’t just happen once but on a weekly basis. Believing that the dates on the boxes were not accurate I eventually gave up and now buy organic. Shame I used to really like them.

When I tried them I found the colour of the yolks unnaturally orange. This could explain it.