When I was little and grew up in the country in Austria my brother and I
would walk behind a plow out in the fields and pick up all the earthworms,
pupas, grubs and what not and put them into buckets, take them home and
watch the chickens fight over them!  They are predators.  We did feed them
corn and such and food scraps, since their forage space was limited.  So
now I get eggs from the ranch where I board my horses and those chickens
free range over a hundred acres and never really get fed, they do have a hen
house which they go into at night, but other than that they are on their own
and eat everthing in sight.  Great eggs.  I couldn't buy storebought eggs
just for the thought of how the factory chickens lead such dismal lives, get
osteorporosis, etc.  There are farms up in Marine County were one can buy
eggs.

Christel


----- Original Message -----
From: "Debby Padilla-Hudson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: Egg Questions


> My father was born and grew up in the Dominican
> Republic.  He always told me the yummiest juiciest
> chickens ate primarly cockroaches!
>
>
> Luv,
> Debby
> San Jose, CA
>
> --- Adrienne Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:42:31 -0500, Don Wiss
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >Some of the farmers at the Greenmarkets bring in
>> eggs. The ones doing it on
>> >a smaller scale are more likely to have the
>> chickens free roaming. Are
>> >there not some Greenmarkets near you?
>> >
>> >Don.
>>
>> No -- but I'd be willing to take the subway downtown
>> to where there is one
>> on Sundays at Union Square.
>>
>> What do free roaming chickens eat??
>>
>> Also, anyone know why all egg containers list eggs
>> as having the same
>> amount of saturated and polyunsaturated fat content
>> despite touting them as
>> being high omega 3?  Do they just copy the info from
>> the USDA government
>> food nutrient database or do they actually conduct
>> fatty acid tests on
>> their products? (I'm grossing out at the thought of
>> all the eggs I've eaten
>> over the past few years -- paid MORE for -- and they
>> could be chock full of
>> exactly the fatty acids I thought I was avoiding.
>> Same goes for organic
>> poultry flesh...
>>
>
>
> Website for my son Hunter Hudson, born 10/11/04:
> http://debbypadilla.0catch.com/hunter/