Eggsposing Eggs What Egg Carton Labels Really Mean for You and the Chicken Egg cartons are cluttered with claims about organic, cage-free, free-roaming, vegetarian chickens that produce eggs packed with omega-3s. But does this magical creature really exist or is it just the same old hen in new packaging? And what does the premium you pay really stand for? The …
Chickens don’t like the heat
Chickens really don’t like the heat. They don’t sweat so its hard for them to keep cool. Free range chickens take regular dust baths in the heat. Heatwaves cause people and chickens to become increasingly bad-tempered.
Easy, FUN ways to cook eggs
The most important factors to consider when selecting your eggs is who cared for the chickens that laid them and how those chickens are raised. This is why knowing your food suppliers is so important.
Nutrition think eggs
Nutrition Think EGGS Eggs have been described by nutritionists as nature’s large vitamin pill – a mineral cocktail; they contain many of the essential vitamins and minerals required for a healthy diet.Packed full of goodness; from vitamin A, which is needed for the healthy development of the body’s cells, helping to maintain healthy skin and eye tissue, vitamin B12, which …
Egg preference reflects personality
person’s favourite way of eating eggs can predict their personality type, their job and even their sex drive, researchers have discovered.Using sophisticated maths and a process known as data mining, scientists have uncovered a statistical relationship between a person’s character, lifestyle and social class and whether they like their eggs boiled, fried, scrambled or as an omelette. The surprising results …
Organic egg test
Dutch university develops organic egg test//30 Mar 2011 . RIKILT, part of Wageningen UR, the Netherlands, has developed a method for verifying whether an egg is organic with the help of analytical techniques. The method works by reading a ‘fingerprint’ of components of the egg. The fingerprints of authentic organic products are compared to a broad selection of similar regular …
Boschveld Indigenous hens
Boschveld Indigenous Free Range Eggs are laid in Bela-Bela (Warmbaths) in the Limpopo Province, South Africa and we supply a wide range of customers in Gauteng and beyond. Our free-range eggs are produced in unspoilt bushveld where our chickens are fed a 100% vegetarian diet with no added hormones or colorants. The chickens are hand fed and the eggs are …