interestingasfuck @lemm.ee Blaze (he/him) @sopuli.xyz 2mo ago

Store egg vs farm egg

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This is from a difference in food. If you don’t give your chickens grass and other natural foods and just give them grain their yolks will be pale yellow instead of the deep orange color.
- The whites also tend to be thicker and shells harder and sometimes the membrane needs to be cut open
- Lol this is also a difference in type of. Chicken laying. The egg.
  
  It's a variety of things really, but the biggest one is diet. There are a bunch of chicken feeds that include a source high in carotenoids in order to change the color of the yolk.
  
  Thats basically just the shell, I can give you a chicken and turkey egg and ya couldn't tell a difference
My store eggs come in many different colours, and they also come from farms.
I miss having chickens and ducks. Not only is the color different, the flavor is richer, and the yolk consistency is thicker and more sticky. The egg shells aren't paper thin and don't shatter into the bowl...

I like city life, but miss being able to have fresh eggs from my own animals.
- If you have a yard in many cases you can have chickens. Apartment/condo living makes that a little more difficult though lol.
  
  Man, I wish I could have chickens. I legally could (Even in urban Seattle), but I just wouldn't have the energy to care for them every day.
  
  Not true.
- I don't know where you live, and haven't taken advantage of it, but farmers markets sometimes have eggs that are likely closer to what you're missing.
  
  Seattle. The farmers markets here are so insanely priced. Farm to table means 5x pricing.
I once read a post saying that yolk color is very easy to control by adding or removing "red" food.
- The food itself isn’t necessarily red, but there are certain nutrients that will make the yolk redder. Factory farms can adjust their feed to tailor the yolk color for different markets. pasture raised eggs will very in color seasonally and regionally with what food is available to them.
- Kenji did a blind taste testing once with eggs of different colored yolks. The yolk color is based on the feed of the chicken, but from his testing, people didn't notice a taste difference but did prefer the more orange colored yolk when they could see the egg.
In my experience the yolk color can vary a lot both in store and farm eggs. However, I think there's often a difference in the white's consistency. The store bought are usually more runny.
Farm egg is probably fertilized.
- You don't know what you're talking about.
  
  I have had chickens for years.
  
  You don't keep the rooster separate from the hens, they fuck.
- I see we need to have the talk...
- Makes no difference to yolk color.
- EW A ROOSTER JIZZED IN MY BREAKFAST
  
  It's called naturally pre-seasoned. The hipster will love it.
- Based on your expertise, how probable would you say?
  
  You don't keep the rooster separated from the hens on a farm. If he can, he will.

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