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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 10 4:26 pm Post subject: Watery Egg Whites |
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Hi Everyone, I was Reading your posts with considerable interest, as my girls are suffering the same plight. I did some research and came up with one possibility for watery egg whites that has not been mentioned here at all. Are your girls getting to much Vanadium...? It is a mineral found in some vegtables. I feed our girls on a diet of pellets, mash, which I mix with tap hot water (which they go bananas for) and 2 carrots and a good helping of spinnach per day, between our nine girls. When I saw the article on vanadium, I wondered just out of curiosity if spinnach may contain said mineral and yes it does, quite a high proportion. I have since cut the spinnach out of their diets and I am awaiting results with interest. Other vegtables also contain vanadium, so I suggest anyone interested take a look at the article. I just entered vandium into the google search engine and found it that way. Some articles say it is because the egg is too fresh or contradictingly too old. As a cause both those seem unlikely to me as not all our girls are suffering from watery whites and we have tried all their eggs at diferent ages after being laid, with the same watery result. I have to say at this point that not all of them like spinnach either. It's deffinitely a head scratcher.....and I want to go back to the days of beautifully rotund poached eggs. |
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Vanessa
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Posted: Wed Apr 21, 10 7:44 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, Sonny, I don't understand the tone of your reply there. You posted a view, I posted another view. Mind is based on experience in a part of France where it's common for day-time temperatures not to rise above zero in the daytime in mid-winter, often much colder.
There is a difference between "chilled" as in the egg industry's transportation and storage, and "close to frozen" of eggs laid in sub-zero temperatures. Admittedly, I didn't have many eggs laid in these conditions, but when I did, if I didn't collect them very quickly, the whites would be significantly thinner than normal. |
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