Another Question

Hi All, this might sound a bit silly but how long does it take a hen to produce eggs from the food you feed it ie Free range as to battery thanks -----Fred

Not really, i am aware battery hens eat mash or pellets and thats what i give mine but as they are now free range which means they eat all sorts of differant things like worms, slugs, spiders, grass, grains etc so i am wandering if that effects the taste how long does it take to filter through to egg laying (free range eggs taste differant to battery eggs)---Fred

Yes what a chicken eats does affect the taste as well as colour of the yolk.
Greens (grass, cabbage......) will give your yolks a more yellow colour.
I would imagine that a couple of days is all it will take for it to filter through on a healthy chicken.  But if its exbatts then it is gonna take longer as they are normally got rid of around moult so they will have to get back to health.