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(Phred) wrote in
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> Here we now have "free range", "barn", and "vegetarian"
> FFS! The prices for these range high to low respectively.
> If prefixed by "organic" they are even more expensive (but,
> of course, you can't but "organic vegetarian" eggs because
> "vegetarian" is just a nonsense name for cage eggs! .

this is true. there's no way free range eggs will be
vegetarian. not only do the chickens eat bugs (we originally
got chickens to control ticks in the yard. we now have no
ticks, no crickets, & very few mosquitoes. that's pretty
amazing because 1/3 of our 62 acres is wetland!) but they also
eat snakes, frogs, and moles/voles/mice! not sure how they
catch the rodents or if they steal them from the cats, but
they sure enjoy them <ick>.
>
> I buy the cheapest they have in half-dozen lots (usually
> "vegetarian"). There's no difference in nutritional value.
> There may be a difference in the mind of some consumers;
> but as that isn't an issue for me, I don't see the point of
> paying extra.

what color yolks do the vegetarian eggs have? my chooks have
glowing orange yolks. scrambled eggs at my house are NOT
yellow!
lee

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