Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

Can't wait for the program, we will not find anything we don't know, just curious what gets broadcasted to the audience.
Marketplace 8 PM Friday night on CBC
Some of these supposedly informational programs assume the audience has an attention span of a gnat, and the info is filtered to such small bites it doesn't make much sense anymore.

Well the verdict is in, Organic eggs are indeed more nutritious.

It wasn't bad. There was one old guy who didn't like the eggs with flavour not sure if he was an egg farmer. Managed to watch the facility video with all those poor naked bummed hens - ugh! Liked the guys reaction that farmed the organic free run hens, yes they'll likely be culled at moult but they did seem to be happily scratching and photobombing LOL!

Loved the Organic Meadow Guy, I don't think he gets enough feed back felt like running over and giving him a hug. :)
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I can't imagine anybody watching the first barn with 6 bare hens in a space they couldn't stand up straight thought that was an OK way to keep animals.
The second "improved" barn wasn't much better, it seems like the main source of protein for those hens were their cell-mates feathers.
Also noticed that at the same barn the "bio-security" consisted of the man spraying the reporters boots, ONLY the tops, with a squirt bottle of disinfectant. Presumably he was trying to protect her boots?

I was also interested in the womans comment that she couldn't afford any but the cheapest eggs because of the kids after school activities etc? The kids preferred the organic eggs too. Maybe I have that wrong but if they were my kids (never had any BTW) I would be prioritising their food. Wonder if they get pop and such?

Killerbunny wrote:QR_BBPOST I was also interested in the womans comment that she couldn't afford any but the cheapest eggs because of the kids after school activities etc? The kids preferred the organic eggs too. Maybe I have that wrong but if they were my kids (never had any BTW) I would be prioritising their food. Wonder if they get pop and such?

Funny, we both noticed it, not sure when entertainment became more important then good nutrition?
She did say at the end that she will consider things a bit more in the future.

Funny ..i watched the program with some admitted anticipation and I was sorely disappointed..the editor of the program needs to be taken out and shot...that has got to be the most confusing bit of journalism I have seen in a long time..jumpy...disjointed..whats with all the stupid camera angles?..I have an attention span of more than 3 seconds but I think that they forgot that...waste of time in my opinion...and who gets the money from the 7.99 eggs?... Sheesh...sounds gripey but it could have been much better

It's the NEW way to edit Tom, it's done by a twenty something computer wiz, texting his friends with one hand and editing with the other. Nothing to do with information, it has to be fast paced and fit between his Tweeting and Instagram checks.

Watched the Marketplace egg thing Monday evening. I think they got some stuff right and some stuff wrong.

What they got right:
Free range grass eating are higher in nutrients and stuff. For sure.
Caged birds are kind of distressing.
Caged birds and bazillions of them make more money for the farmer. Yes, this is price driven.
Most people don't know the difference.
General public wont pay what it takes to have eggs like the bunch of us here have.
Most people that buy our eggs don't have a clue what a bargain they are getting.
($8 a dozen? Who gets that, who can afford that?)

What they got wrong:
The reason our eggs taste better for us and the chickens? Its because our chickens get individual attention. It is because of the care and nurture we get from them, and the care and nurture they give us. Ask any big time egg farmer who laid that egg, they dont have a clue. I know about half my hens on a first name basis. I know which hen laid which egg (probably). I knew her mother, I knew her grandmother and cousins. I arranged the marriage between their grandfather and grandmother, and was best man at the ceremony. I helped take care of their babies. We remember the time the hawk got Aunt Safron over by the big tree. We remember when one of Hariett's chicks flew into the water bucket and didn't make it out. We remember when the fox snake constricted Rex when she was defending her nest and he wanted to eat her unhatched babies. We know which ones want to be boyscouts and sleep out in the trees all summer.

You cant get eggs like they lay from anyone else, battery caged, or even from the neighbors. The eggs at my place, I should get hundreds of dollars a dozen for, but no one will pay it. So I sell my for $4 a dozen, eat some, and give some away as I feel like.

I hope Marketplace does a program on milk, and I will be able to comment on why my goat milk is superior to anything in the store or from the neighbors. And then there is the garden produce. Don't get me going on squash and new potatoes and spring salads and melons. Aren't those bagged salads pathetic? (No, I haven't started giving my potatoes names, but I have thought about it. They do have a family name tho, Planting Caribes mostly this year. )

Marketplace missed all the really good stuff, except that woman with the back yard flock, that was pretty good.