CAdreaming

is it me or do eggs taste odd here? I buy organic eggs from chicks who can roam around but hard boiled ones just aren't doing it for me!

strange texture - and flavour

Sheepdip

See fine here, about the same from memory?

Lion in Winter

"Roam around" in this country might mean "let out into a concrete yard".

My experience is that eggs mostly taste of nothing, due in part to their having been extremely chilled.

Michael

When I was growing up, my dad owned a country grocery store and he got his eggs from a local farmer and the yokes with a deep orange color. Since then, I haven't found eggs that were as good as those whether white, brown, organic, roaming, or from different farms.

Sally Redux

Yeah they no longer taste eggy.

Watched Soylent Green again the other day - I reckon that's where we're headed.

Pulaski

I have the same problem with most store-bought tomatoes.

markonline1

My eggs taste fine. Then again, the eggs come from the chickens in my back yard

Sally Redux

That's cool

Jerseygirl

I notice the eggs I buy here in Toronto have deep orange coloured yolks. The ones I bought in the US were much paler.

joto

I'll take a dozen, please. We had free roaming chickens when I was a kid, and the eggs were lovely.

Lion in Winter

Tomatoes have also been chilled beyond recall. They never get their taste back after that.

http://inhabitat.com/6-ways-to-keep-...nger/tomatoes/

Only decent ones around here are from the farmers' markets in the sadly short growing season.

Karrie72

I had my own chickens for a while until they were all beheaded , yes thats right by some mystery creature in the woods.

I found that the taste of the eggs could differ slightly from what they ate outside. When they free-range they eat bugs, vegetable clippings etc.

Nutek

Lots of movies start like that. Things normally get worse.

/Helpful

Karrie72

In these dark, Maine woods you just never know!

WEBlue

I'd love to have a few chickens. I'm trying to research the town's regulations on this.

The only thing I'm afraid of are all the local predators. We have at least one fox who seems to regard our garden as his personal lounge (found tracks all around in the snow this past winter), and there are supposed to be coyotes too, plus a giant owl in the forest nearby, plus hawks of all kinds, and then a cougar (?) was spotted a few towns away recently.

And ... what do you do with the chickens when you go away for a few days? Hire a chicken-minder?