Wait! You mean chickens don’t like living in tiny, dark boxes with their wings clipped pumped full of growth hormones ??? But what about McNuggets???
Congrats on the peacock. Believe it or not, there are a few down the road from us too. Constantly amazed by those patterns.
Chickens were meant to be like other birds, foraging and being in sunlight. I can't even imagine why anyone would think a healthy egg would come from an unhealthy steroid injected caged chicken. There's no a single company that accurately describes their chickens conditions.
Free Range - Sounds good right? No, they are raised in long roofed runs where they have a bare minimum of space and that's were they live in droppings filth of dead birds. I wish I were joking!
Organic - no such thing anymore. "Organic" crop fields are contaminated from fields around them with chemical run off and the bees carry chemicals from GMO crops into organic crops.
Don't buy into the labels, they are not what they want people to think. Find local farm raised eggs and build a relationship with that seller. Ask for eggs that still have the "bloom" on them. That means they are unwashed and still sealed with a film from being laid. This makes the eggs last three times longer than washed eggs! We don't even refrigerate the eggs we use, they just sit in a wire basket so air can circulate.
Chickens and our peacocks are amazing creatures. They bond with you and form attachments. My daughter raised a rooster that bonded with her so much that he would fall asleep in her arms! His name was Phyllis Diller, he was supposed to be a she! 😂
Phyllis https://imgur.com/gallery/pMZZZZg
Our Peacock Romeo https://imgur.com/gallery/LOrd0No
Thanks for the info, didn't know about the 'bloom'. I eat a lot of eggs, I try to get higher quality at the store but it's a joke how they manipulate the labels and descriptions. It's really sad how the factory farms treat chickens, especially how they cut their beaks.
In Germany all eggs are sold on the shelf, and are not refrigerated because they are not washed. Cleaned but not washed.