[NAFEX] Subject: Re: Eggs of enlightenment

Toni Pralle toni.pralle at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 12:53:15 EDT 2009


> You should hear the comments we get when people see our green and blue
eggs from our Americauna chickens!  They usually think they are mouldy!  I
also laugh at the people who want to buy "farm fresh eggs", but first want
to know if they have those 'awful dark orange yolks"!  Why, yes they do and
I feed my chickens alfalfa hay all winter to make sure they stay that way
(weeds, grass and horror of horrors: worms, slugs and bugs in the summer
too!).<<

Yes, when I had the Araucana hens, people would only buy the blue eggs once,
for a novelty.
I don't go into much detail about "free roaming" because if they were leery
of farm eggs before, imagine the reaction to chickens scratching through and
eating things from a pile of horse poop! I never have to drag my pasture, my
chickens do it for me. I've also read the bennefits of feeding flax seed. I
did it for a while. I have no idea if it makes any difference in the eggs. I
raked up the compost pile again yesterday. I suppose that will be on my to
do list every day until the grass comes in. I enjoy my chickie girls but not
always the things the chickie girls do.

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Toni in zone 4 Iowa USA
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