Question for everyone reading this thread if you have experience of hens of different breeds: have you noticed a difference in egg quality between them? Differences in egg shell colour and size are well known and not what I'm after. What I'm after is difference in, for example, ratio of yolk to white, colour, size or richness of yolk, that sort of thing. It's difficult if not impossible to quantify outside a lab but it's also something that we all know it when we see/taste it. E.g. like this
of these two eggs I noted that the one on the left was Eve's (Norfolk Grey), but not whose it was on the right (but not a Norfolk Grey since I only have one). Of course age of egg also impacts how it spreads on a plate/pan. Fresher holds up better, older spreads out more; something to do with degradation of the proteins if memory serves correct.
My question is prompted by eating a bowl of cereal with milk from Jersey cows. It is a very different product from the milk we usually get. Jerseys and Guernseys are famous for the creaminess of their milk; so I wonder do some chicken breeds lay richer eggs than others? Or is the variation at individual level? I cannot see how things like yolk : white ratio could be explained by diet, or at least, not more easily than by genetics.
of these two eggs I noted that the one on the left was Eve's (Norfolk Grey), but not whose it was on the right (but not a Norfolk Grey since I only have one). Of course age of egg also impacts how it spreads on a plate/pan. Fresher holds up better, older spreads out more; something to do with degradation of the proteins if memory serves correct.
My question is prompted by eating a bowl of cereal with milk from Jersey cows. It is a very different product from the milk we usually get. Jerseys and Guernseys are famous for the creaminess of their milk; so I wonder do some chicken breeds lay richer eggs than others? Or is the variation at individual level? I cannot see how things like yolk : white ratio could be explained by diet, or at least, not more easily than by genetics.