Report: EGGS.
Where our eggs come from:
Caged 89%
Free ranged 9%
Farm 2%
Caged hens.
In the shed there are two floors.
Temperature at 22 degrees, 6 Hens per cage, lights on for 16 hours a day.
They use electric wire for the hen to stop picking at the egg while it is going past on the belt. They can starve the hen and that will make them lay eggs. Thats called forced molting. The cage is on an angle. So the hen has to grip on which is gonna be a long time. Food comes out from a conveyor belt and eggs go out through another.
Free range hens.
Free ranged hens get to do lot’s of stuff. In their life they got everything they need. They’re similar to barn hens. They have got a lot of space and they eat from the grass or chicken feed from the chicken house.
Barn hens.
Barn hens can run jump, flap their wings and do stuff. It’s sad for the caged hens they can’t do anything but turn, move a couple of steps, and sit down.
People wanted to do a test to see which egg tasted nicer. They had a test to see if caged eggs and organic eggs were nicer. Most people preferred the taste of organic eggs.
Facts.
New Zealanders eat 920,000,000 eggs per year. White hens lay white eggs and brown hens lay brown eggs. But there is no health difference between the two. NZ has a darker yolked egg than in some countries. Protein is mostly in the yolk. Male chicks get killed because they can’t lay eggs.
Hi Piriniha. This is a great write up on eggs and where they originate from. You provided good information and used good language to inform the reader on what eggs we may be buying. Well done!
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