{"id":1419,"date":"2009-08-21T12:40:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T17:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2009-08-21T12:40:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T17:40:41","slug":"egg-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"Egg report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/t-egg-shells.JPG' title='t-egg-shells.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/t-egg-shells.JPG' alt='t-egg-shells.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got a second egg this morning, so I fried them both for lunch today.<\/p>\n<p>The shells were much thicker and harder than any grocery store egg I&#8217;ve ever had. The yolks stood up so nicely that it makes one realize that commercial eggs are never truly fresh. The yolks were that dark gold color that I&#8217;ve only ever seen in homemade eggs. I was afraid the yolks would not be properly dark, because the dry summer weather hasn&#8217;t left me much fresh grass and clover to feed the chickens. As far as I know, it&#8217;s primarily chlorophyll that makes the yolks so rich. But my chickens do get a varied diet that includes a lot of fruit and vegetable scraps, so maybe chlorophyll is not as essential as I thought.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve rounded up some sunflower seeds, flax seeds, and wheat berries to mix with their laying mash. They seem to crave protein and go for protein foods first when I take them treats.<\/p>\n<p>The quality of the eggs, and my hens&#8217; happy dispositions, makes me feel even more sorry for the hens that produce commercial eggs. Obviously commercial hens aren&#8217;t fed well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a second egg this morning, so I fried them both for lunch today. The shells were much thicker and harder than any grocery store egg I&#8217;ve ever had. The yolks stood up so nicely that it makes one realize that commercial eggs are never truly fresh. The yolks were that dark gold color &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Egg report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}