Burford Brown eggs from Clarence Court

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

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.

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.

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

You are right, twiglet77 they aren't organic.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I havnt seen burford eggs but i do try to buy 0 marked eggs, the most expensive, but hard to find so I often end up with size 1.

I had no idea each egg is stamped with a number until a few years ago. It then progresses downwards and I don’t buy any over size 1.

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?

Allira

Aldom

When my daughter was young she worked at dog boarding kennels during the school holidays.
The people who owned the kennels kept hens which were free range. They sold the eggs to local people and customers of the kennels.
I was warned by my daughter never to buy the eggs because she regularly observed the hens pecking dog faeces.
My daughter

The hens would be pecking bits of food and larvae and insect eggs from the poo.
Very nutritious!

This thread has taken a very nasty turn 😄🤢

Aldom

When my daughter was young she worked at dog boarding kennels during the school holidays.
The people who owned the kennels kept hens which were free range. They sold the eggs to local people and customers of the kennels.
I was warned by my daughter never to buy the eggs because she regularly observed the hens pecking dog faeces.
My daughter

The hens would be pecking bits of food and larvae and insect eggs from the poo.
Very nutritious!

NotSpaghetti

Aldom - surely that is normal?
Dogs like chicken poo by the way.
Hens will eat almost anything!

Including each other on occasions

Aldom - surely that is normal?
Dogs like chicken poo by the way.
Hens will eat almost anything!

When my daughter was young she worked at dog boarding kennels during the school holidays.
The people who owned the kennels kept hens which were free range. They sold the eggs to local people and customers of the kennels.
I was warned by my daughter never to buy the eggs because she regularly observed the hens pecking dog faeces.
My daughter

M0nica

Allira carrot peelings should make the yokes darker.

One of the many reasons I stopped eating cheap chicken, welfare being the main one, was because the chickens were fed fishmeal and tasted horrible and fishy.

DD's chooks get kitchen scraps as well as corn but never meat or fish leftovers.
The eggs are very tasty.

I've never heard of these brands.

Free range (which is a bit of a misnomer in itself) are within my budget, so I always buy them.

Allira carrot peelings should make the yokes darker.

One of the many reasons I stopped eating cheap chicken, welfare being the main one, was because the chickens were fed fishmeal and tasted horrible and fishy.

Fishmeal, no! Yuk!

But why not marygolds, what is the issue here. They are edible flowers, and there is nothing wrong with a bit of paprika either. The way the hens are kept and treated is paramount however.

David49

Allira

Chooks will eat anything including pulling flowers up from the garden!
Would carrot peelings make the yolks darker, wonder?

Yes, dont feed them onions or any strong flavour.

I do know 😁

Actually, weren't they complaints a while ago about eggs tasting fishy because they were feeding hens on fish meal?

Personally I have no preference for darker yolks.* I’d always understood that it was down to what the hens are fed. Much the same as IIRC the colour of flamingos is down to a particular little crustacean (or whatever it is) that they eat.

*My very fussy-eater mother would have called them ‘eggy’ eggs - she wasn’t keen on ‘eggy’ eggs!