Why Are Greene Eggs Golden?

These eggs are not the same.

Let me tell you a story about our eggs.  Last spring we donated eggs for a supper at our church. The hens were getting ahead, and our customers were getting behind. The Brotherhood needed lots of eggs to feed to the church, and we were able to help. Most of the folks at our church are like most of the folks in our country; they buy their eggs from the grocery. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, what a real good egg is like. Several people were wondering why the eggs were so golden. More than one person asked if the eggs had cheese in them! There was no cheese, of course. They were just rich, good, Greene eggs.

In the picture above, you see a grocery store egg on the left and a Greene Family Farm egg on the right. Can you see how pale the grocery store egg is? Can you see how bright, golden, and dark the Greene egg is? What you can't see is how high the yolk on the Greene egg stands and how well it holds together (You can separate these eggs by hand without pulling the yolk apart). The very structure and texture of the egg itself is different, and there is also evidence that its nutritional value is higher. Sally Fallon Morrell of the Weston A. Price Foundation says that pastured eggs contain twice the vitamin A and up to eight times the vitamin D of supermarket eggs.

Some of these eggs are brown on the outside; a few are white on the outside; all of them are golden on the inside.

How does this happen?  Our hens are on pasture and woodland all year round. The picture above was taken last Monday. Fresh eggs from chickens on fresh green pasture even in late winter. No tricks or gimmicks. We're not buying in goofy supplements to make up for our failure to manage our chickens so that they live and prosper as they should. No marigold petals, no alfalfa hay, no flax seed. Chickens raised the way we raise ours don't need them and aren't much interested in them. You can see the grass in the picture. What you can't see is the clover, vetch, dock, chickweed, bugs, and worms. You can't see the leaf mould, the sprouted acorns and hickory nuts. Greene Family Farm chickens see all these things and eat them. That's why Greene Family Farm eggs look and taste like sunshine on a plate.

Is your breakfast this good?