Understanding Chickens & Eggs : Types of Chicken Eggs

Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm provide information about various kinds of chicken eggs in this free online video.

Expert: Tia Pinney
Bio: Tia Pinney is a Teacher Naturalist and Adult Program Coordinator at Mass Audubons Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• pets
• animals
• chicken
• hen
• farms
• coop
• rooster

[bobyanics]

Thank you for your video's great clips! We have a flock 53 mixed between Reds and Barred Rocks, there sure is a difference between Humanly raised and store bought eggs and it is on the inside.

[Brian567899]

@TheFever77 Different breeds

[TheFever77]

@UncleUlser Thank you for your explanation. We have large scale factory bred chickens in the UK too but the shells are still brown. Our free range eggs deinitely have a darker coloured yolk and the flavour is much better. Either way, I love eggs. They are small tasty miracles!

[UncleUlser]

@TheFever77 The way I understand it is that yolk color (sorry, colour) and the consistency of the whites depend on what the hen eats. American commercial eggs are (generally speaking) mostly produced on industrial-scale, factory -farms where the hens can only eat commercially produced feed. The hens in our garden are eating bugs and fresh greens as well as some grain and commercial feed and produce eggs with richly colored yolks and the whites are much firmer than commercial eggs.

[ddgrower]

I learned something useful, thanks.

[BLOODYCLQ]

@mrva99 mottled silver leghorn,

[BLOODYCLQ]

@neffada53 free range chickens need vaccination for sure, it is a must, the person sells the chickens will do it when baby chicks one day old, you can include some apple vinegar in their water to get rid off internal worms, cheers

[BLOODYCLQ]

@sabestian123ify leave 9 to 12 eggs in the coop together somewhere not too hot, not too cold, one of your hen will go broody and sit on eggs, if this not happen in 4 days replace the eggs with fresh ones, one of them will go broody for sure, you have to turn the eggs by hand two three times a day till hen sits on them, cheers

[neffada53]

I'm thinking about ordering chicks, and I noticed that the hatchery will give them a Marek's vaccination, prior to shipping. How necessary is this?

[TheFever77]

Why are American eggs so white in colour? I'm comparing them to British eggs which are robust and browner in colour with a much deeper orange coloured yolk.