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Has anyone noticed recently the fact that chicken eggs are shrinking?

I bought 4 last week from Morrisons and have just had one for my breakfast and it looks like a pigeon laid it.

Are they not feeding the chickens enough?

Have we got Anorexic chickens?

They will be the size of quail eggs soon.

anyone else noticed that?
 
I noticed that with the Asda Smart Price ones that I got,t hey were tiny and had a very small yolk
 
We get ours from a farm. Maybe it's the battery hens which are finally failing to produce normal size eggs after generations of confinement.
 
up until i fell out with my neighbour we used to get them from a farm in Ribchester and they where much bigger
 
quite possible. Might start getting mine off the market, the free range eggs are so expensive though
 
There is a lot of "shrinkage" going on so that they can maintain there prices and its not just supermarkets as even Macky D's are at it. Its been happening in the sweets industry for years because if you think back al those years ago to those you ate as a kid they have shrunk. To the point that flashy made on the eggs it might be a false econemy as sometimes say for scrambled egg you could need half as many eggs again as you did originally.
 
emzy said:
quite possible. Might start getting mine off the market, the free range eggs are so expensive though
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There are allotment holders locally who sell eggs.
My supplier has put his price up in the past year because the cost of chicken feed has gone up.
He says he will always be cheaper than the supermarkets.
The hens are positively free range (can see them running about on grass).
Sometimes the eggs are so big that the eggbox lid wont shut.
 
I watched that Jamie Oliver programme, forget what it was called now (funnily enough) but that really made me think about chickens and eggs.

Now I only buy free range chicken and eggs. I know not everyone will change their opinion, but I feel like I'm doing my bit.

I feel that all chickens and indeed all livestock should be allowed to live their lives out in the fresh air and not be cooped up (excuse the pun) as they are. They don't have long on this planet as it is, so what little time they have should be as free as possible.
 
The Wandering Wilber kind that have there equivelent of 5 star food do drop better tasting and looking additions to my bacon butty. :D On a slight "off road" theme when they end up as roasters do they taste as good? Had Free Range eggs but never a roaster.
 
MissTechnophobe said:
I watched that Jamie Oliver programme, forget what it was called now (funnily enough) but that really made me think about chickens and eggs.

Now I only buy free range chicken and eggs. I know not everyone will change their opinion, but I feel like I'm doing my bit.

I feel that all chickens and indeed all livestock should be allowed to live their lives out in the fresh air and not be cooped up (excuse the pun) as they are. They don't have long on this planet as it is, so what little time they have should be as free as possible.
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was that not the one where Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall brought Jamie Oliver onto his programme on his 'chicken out' campaign?
 
I don't think so, it was the one where he was doing live slaughters on TV - fairly recent perhaps a couple of months ago? Pretty horrific stuff
 
ewww......the one with the chicks in the electrical box, that was horrible!!!!!
 
MissTechnophobe said:
I don't think so, it was the one where he was doing live slaughters on TV - fairly recent perhaps a couple of months ago? Pretty horrific stuff
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If you want to eat them you have to kill them first. Many of us like to pretend they don't know where meat comes from and just get on with eating it.

Animals are here to eat, if god did not want us to eat animals he would not have made them of meat.
 
Thats true. Its still a shock actually seeing how they are slaughtered. I know they do it as humanely as possible but its still a shock. No many people will have seen inside a slaughterhouse.

The thing is that was done on tv so its going to be made to look humane, what really happens in slaughterhouses? I doubt the animals are treated with the same respect
 
Well gonna agree with Neil. Besides which I still maintain that if starving whatever your likes or dislikes on food they will eat meat after killing gutting and skinning it:eat:. Doesnt matter if its a little clucker out of a pen or egg :egged:a rabbit (great roasted:D) or some mooer that has become no good for milk we still eat it. At least we dispatch them humanelly in this country unlike some that could be mentioned.
 
I'm fortunate to still have an egg man that comes round our area on a Thursday eve, 65p for half a dozen free range :)
 
yeah I have been buying those large packs of them - I think there is about 36 in them for less thsn £3 they are okay pretty good size nd good taste to them too.
 
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