? Where to buy good eggs ?

[Sarge]

Roger,

Since you live in Seattle, go to one of the farmer's markets that are held on Saturdays. There is a really big one each Sunday year round in Ballard. Here is the url: http://www.fremontmarket.com/ballard/

You need to go early to get eggs because they sell out quickly.

I agree with earlier comments....eggs from a chicken that is allowed to be a chicken (and do all the weird things chickens do, like burying themselves and eating grubs, etc.) leads to a better tasting egg.

[Chuckpacific]

The farmed salmon are fed pellets that look like rabbit food and yes, they do contain pigment. They are Atlantic Salmon (which do better in confinement). One of the problems with farming is that the salmon are subject to huge disease 'blooms' that can wipe out the whole 'pen'.
Before the mid 1990s feed lot cattle were fed most anything....manure, euthanized pound animals, road kill, sawdust, other dead as well as other dead cattle. This was ground up and fed to them after it was found that they would eat anything. The concern about mad cow disease changed that. There are no restrictions on what chickens can be fed in the large operations....and they are fed much the same thing as the pre-mad-cow-disease cattle.

[El and Bill]

Great topic - brings back fond memories. Most of our 'town' life with kids we had 'free range' chickens in our back yard - each kid had one and one each for us two parents. Kids picked out their chick and raised it so we had 5 different breeds - mine was a 'no frills' Rhode Island red. We had only hens (so as not to arouse the neighbors at dawn). Oh, and the eggs we ate!

When the kids were in High School, we had a corral with 2 horses, a billy goat (from Catalina Island), two ducks and through our daughter's 4-H years, a sheep or a steer or whatever. Kim took care of the chicken flock and her horse - we had marvelous eggs every day and
she sold them and the excess to the neighbors to pay for feed and entrance fees to horse shows and gymkhana rodeos. The extra cash was for her whatever. Those critters were not only great companions but the old adage of 'give a girl a horse to care for and you'll never have a problem with your kid' sure was true.

And those eggs all those years ... None like them since. Thanks for refreshing those memories.

[Patrout]

Now I'm worried about "mad chicken disease."

Pat

[matt_unique]

I too grew up with hens at different times over the years. We buy our eggs in a supermarket now but they are from a cage free farm a few hours away in MA.

[B~C]

Patrout- the mad chick disease has been around for some time....here's some info on it's history
http://www.now.org/history/

[starcrafttom]

Ken you are going to hell for that one.... Can I come too?

[C-Hawk]

[Wefings]

thumbs up,martini,smiley guy,thumbs up .
I cant do emoticons.........
Marc

[breausaw]

Ok, I’m taking the plunge here because I probably eat a dozen and a half eggs a week. Egg Lands Best EB eggs (EB stamped on each egg) in the white Styrofoam carton. If you’re a tree hugger animal humanitarian then you can get the cage free variety of the same- I think they let them watch TV too. We get them up here in Alaska and sure you can find somewhere outside. Nothing like good eggs and lots of them, cholesterol be damned. Scrambled, 3min soft boiled, fried sunny side up, French toast, omelets, yummy stuff; food of the gods.
EB eggs are high in omega 3s and have 1/3rd less cholesterol then regular eggs, and they taste great.
Best eggs I have ever had were over in Hawaii, must be the volcanic enriched soil; the yokes are bright orange.

There, let’s get back to talking about boating!!

[Patrout]

Thanks, Ken

Now I have to do something to make the chick happy. It will probably involved physical activity of some kind.

Pat

[rogerbum]

Today was attempt one (at least of the most recent obsession) to buy some good eggs in Seattle. According to various posts on the interwho, the Pike Market Creamery sells good, locally grown, cage free eggs (supposedly from Sea Breeze Farms on Vashon). So I drove over to the market on my way home and located the Pike Market Creamery. They didn't sell Sea Breeze eggs but rather sold eggs from Stiebrs Farms (Yelm). I bought a dozen and had to try one for dinner. I cooked it side by side with one from Safeway. No real difference. Very disappointing (especially at $4.65/dozen). Maybe this weekend I'll try to get the Sea Breeze eggs from one of the farmers' markets.

[colvosview]

I like your methodology. Always the scientist!

[Don and Brenda]

I wonder if the chicken ranch fire in Stanwood a few days ago will have any affect on the market. They lost 180,000 chickens

[DaveS]