Eggs from pastured hens are the best! Deep orange yolks, great taste!
They are also one of the few sources of Vitamin K2. Arteries in my elderly Dad’s were so calcified the surgeon could not bore them out, as they were “like concrete”. After six months of eating three pastured eggs for breakfast every morning, plus K2 supplements in the evening, he no longer gets a horrible infection every time he stubs a toe or gets a little scratch on a foot. His osteoporosis stopped in its tracks. Ditto coronary artery disease. It’s been three years now, and I can hardly believe the improvement, but it is real (regular scans).
But don’t take my word or it. If you are elderly or have elderly loved ones, explore the benefits of K2 yourself. And enjoy those yummy pastured eggs! (Younger people’s bodies synthesize K1 to K2, but as we age, our bodies become way less efficient in this process, one of the reasons calcium is robbed from our bones and deposited in our blood vessels.)
Note: Cage-free and free range are *not* the same as pastured. Cage-free just means the hens are let out to peck each other in a small fenced mud hole, and free range just means they are given access to a very small outdoor area. Pastured means the hens are living in a large area of pasture, rotated regularly to fresh fresh pasture, feeding on insects, grass seed, etc., like chickens have always done until factory farming came along.
Yep, we pay a major premium for pastured eggs and eat a lot of them but it’s worth it
Same for grass fed beef, pastured chickens, etc and it may seem excessive but rather than driving brand new cars I prefer to put that money into what we eat
My doctor (a good one) cannot believe how strong and healthy I am for my age—you are what you eat
Given your definitions, Im going to have to call mine “feral”. They come and go when and where they please and dont really say what theyre eating when they are out but they sure do get fat and sassy. They sure think they are tough, well, right up until they irk a gander, tom, or a dog.