Kampong Chicken Eggs?

[Organiccc]

New to Singapore and was just wondering if anyone knows whether Kampong Chicken Eggs (comes in a pack of six) are really eggs laid by Kampong chickens that are free to run around the field (instead of being caged all day)....

[hello hello]

we did talk about this at some point (it might be on the food and recipes board), but the general feeling was that no, they're not sadly.  

I think all the eggs come from that Chew's farm over on the West and they're just labelled differently!

[Organiccc]

To hello hello> Thanks for the info. It's really disappointing     

Anyone know where can we get organic chicken/eggs?

[footsie]

How do you know the chickens are allowed to roam 'freely' or not at all?

[veryCurious]

just curious... but how does 'roamin' free affect the quality of the eggs? i can understand that 'organic' eggs mean that the chickens have been fed only natural feed without growth hormones and all that..  but roamin free??

[think]

just think about it, we are healthier when we exercise right. so clearly chickens who are allowed to run around are healthier and happier as opposed to others who are packed like sardines in a cage with no room to even get up. they live an unhappy life in a dark stinky and very dirty cage. they are very inactive so many of their body parts are not being used so are not even fully developed.

[yepThinkProperly..]

just think about it, we are healthier when we exercise right. so clearly chickens who are allowed to run around are healthier and happier as opposed to others who are packed like sardines in a cage with no room to even get up. they live an unhappy life in a dark stinky and very dirty cage. they are very inactive so many of their body parts are not being used so are not even fully developed.

i agree with u when it comes to humans or even with animals if ur looking for a healthy offsprings...we r not talkin about hatching the eggs to get heathly chicks...all an egg contains is a lot of protein, some carbs , some fat etc... i dont think ur gonna get better quality of protein or any of that stuff just cause the chickens are allowed to roam free... i think its just one of those gimmicks to get u to pay more... I once saw a brand selling 'Halal' Chilli powder ...

[happy chuck]

A free range chicken is a happy chicken.  Being battery farmed can also affect the quality of the eggs or so I read. 


From a US site I found:

eggs from hens raised on pasture may contain:

• 1⁄3 less cholesterol
• 1⁄4 less saturated fat
• 2⁄3 more vitamin A
• 2 times more omega-3 fatty acids
• 3 times more vitamin E
• 7 times more beta carotene



However, some info I found on the BBC website when they went to look at a battery egg farm said that the hens were actually well looked after, the sheds they were in where clean and didn't smell and the hens had relatively few problems apart from the fact that they're not leading a natural life. 

Being kept in a cage with a floor area the size of an A4 piece of paper is really not very humane is it?

The European Union is hoping to outlaw battery egg production by 2012.  I wish Asia would do the same.

[kdd]

just think about it, we are healthier when we exercise right. so clearly chickens who are allowed to run around are healthier and happier as opposed to others who are packed like sardines in a cage with no room to even get up. they live an unhappy life in a dark stinky and very dirty cage. they are very inactive so many of their body parts are not being used so are not even fully developed.

I think Halal in this case might mean the chilli powder is ground and packed in a factory that has 'halal' conditions i.e. no pork or pork products are made there so no danger of things getting mixed up.  
i agree with u when it comes to humans or even with animals if ur looking for a healthy offsprings...we r not talkin about hatching the eggs to get heathly chicks...all an egg contains is a lot of protein, some carbs , some fat etc... i dont think ur gonna get better quality of protein or any of that stuff just cause the chickens are allowed to roam free... i think its just one of those gimmicks to get u to pay more... I once saw a brand selling 'Halal' Chilli powder ...

[veryCurious]

A free range chicken is a happy chicken.  Being battery farmed can also affect the quality of the eggs or so I read. 


From a US site I found:

eggs from hens raised on pasture may contain:

• 1⁄3 less cholesterol
• 1⁄4 less saturated fat
• 2⁄3 more vitamin A
• 2 times more omega-3 fatty acids
• 3 times more vitamin E
• 7 times more beta carotene



However, some info I found on the BBC website when they went to look at a battery egg farm said that the hens were actually well looked after, the sheds they were in where clean and didn't smell and the hens had relatively few problems apart from the fact that they're not leading a natural life. 

Being kept in a cage with a floor area the size of an A4 piece of paper is really not very humane is it?

The European Union is hoping to outlaw battery egg production by 2012.  I wish Asia would do the same.

i def agree with the humane part of it...very interesting facts in the article..i once saw a documentary  showcasing the 'not so great' benefits of some organic foods ( that some types of organic food had no advantages whatsoever) .. well i guess with so much research going on there are so many different conclusions...i just read recently that taking a vitamin pill everyday increases the risk of cancer..   i guess sometimes ignorance is bliss..

[JLS]

I don't like any of the local eggs as they taste like fish to me. I understand that the chickens are fed fishmeal.

Glad to have the Aussie or US egg in stock now.

[Paragon]

Imported free range chicken eggs can be had from supermarket in Paragon. In boxes of 6. I think they were organic too. There were organic ones that weren't free range as well.

[hibiscus24]

You can get good, fresh kampung and other eggs at much better prices in the wet markets. I buy from Tekka market but any wet market will have an egg stall. The vendor will probably also be able to tell you where the eggs came from. Much better than fancy labels which form part of those overheads.

At Tekka, it's a lady selling them - the stall is now next (across a small aisle) to the vegetable vendor who has all the "foreign" herbs etc. He has excellent salad leaves, incidentally - fresh and cheap - and other good veggies. Checked out his stall the other day and bought mushrooms for far less than I'd pay in stores. I'm eschewing the supermarkets now - it's worth squeezing among the stalls to get this stuff!

[Egghead]

The reason free range eggs taste better and ARE better is the DIET of the chicken.  Chickens running around the ground eat a very wide variety of green vegetation, seeds/grain, worms, insects, flower blooms and even baby mice if they can catch one.  Chickens kept in a cage eat whatever some human deigns to give them (often, garbage).  Simple, you taste in the eggs whatever the chicken got to eat.

[No name]

This is an old thread, but still very interesting.

One other thing that wasn't mentioned is that chickens that are kept caged in A4 sized bins go mad and develop antisocial and violent behavors like plucking themselves and the birda around them. So they are fed antibiotics to keep them from getting sick. In some cases they also have the tips of their beaks singed off with a red hot quaterizing wand to also help prevent injury.

I haven't found any free range eggs that are produced in Singapore or Malaysia. I'd love to, though.