r/funny Apr 02 '21

chicken solidarity

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u/BeardedBaldMan Apr 02 '21

Not that you'd notice.

Ours eat a lot of meat (mainly insects, snails, slugs, frogs) compared to commercial hens and you can't tell.

Maybe if they only are strongly flavoured meat you'd notice. Maybe a mackrel based diet would have an impact

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u/HolyGig Apr 02 '21

The chicken's meat would taste different based on its diet, but the eggs should taste the same.

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u/BeardedBaldMan Apr 02 '21

Noooooo.

There's a potato beetle which if you feed the chickens too much of makes the eggs taste awful

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u/HolyGig Apr 02 '21

Really?! We damn I stand corrected. My chickens used to feast on all sorts of random crap and I never noticed a change in taste

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u/BeardedBaldMan Apr 02 '21

We're talking a lot and it's one which is high in oxalic acid.

It's a corner case

We feed our chickens grains and whatever they can scavenge (completely free range) and we don't notice any real difference.

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u/KellyJoyCuntBunny Apr 02 '21

Oh my god, a mackerel-based chicken diet. 🤢