Clarence Court Mabel Pearman's Burford Browns Free Range Eggs, (Assorted sizes), Pack of 6

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It happened to me yesterday,” he says. “I won’t name the company but this was somewhere I always thought was all right: small company, little farm, one gate. Then the whole thing shatters. You realise they buy their eggs off other farms. The little farm’s a front. There’s Big Egg behind it.” These birds are bred at a consistently high standard, ensuring their hens are disease resistant and maintain their prolific egg-laying ability. An undergraduate at Cambridge, at the time of Punnett’s poultry experiments called John Croome, carried on breeding the Cream Legbars following the dispersal of the Cambridge breeding facility in the early 50’s, until his death in 1988. Fortunately, the Cream Legbars were saved from extinction because Croome had given some hatching eggs to David Applegarth, in Yorkshire, the year before his death, and David continued to keep Creams until recently. Reginald Punnett Clarence Court

Sometime later, Mr. Lee-Woolf joined Clarence House and relocated to the Coach House farm on Broadway, where the famed ‘Clarence Court label helped propel the success of their eggs. They also produce a cotswold legbar which seems to be exactly the same as an cream crested they just have a trademarked name. The burford brown is a mix of 4 grandparents , therefore has two crossbred parents producing a hybrid. just a plain old Commercial hybrid. Historically commercial hybrids are not "breeds" .Adrian Gott, chief executive at the business’s parent company, Stonegate Farmers, said: “Producers have felt cost increases in all aspects of the business, encompassing feed, energy, labour, transportation and, in respect of new investment, cost of materials and cost to raise finance. The company added further pressure was coming from retailers transitioning to selling only free-range eggs. The idea of egg brands would have seemed ridiculous a few decades ago. Eggs were just eggs Lori Meakin, Joint We don’t supply single birds of one breed, because hens need the companionship of their own kind and age to flourish and reach full potential. GUARANTEE

Bantams: Ancona, Austrolorpe, Botted, Belgians, Dutch, German Langshan, Modern Game, New Hampshire Red, Pekin, Poland, Silkie, Sumatra, Sussex, Rhode Island Red, Welsummer, Wyandotte. To avoid disappointment, beware of rogue dealers using our breed names to offer ‘look-a-like’ but inferior birds or hatching eggs! But all this emphasis on design rather miffs Bourns, as becomes clear when I visit his farm. In normal circumstances, his hens would all be roaming around outside. The avian flu epidemic means they’re confined to their barns – but they seem happy and healthy enough, rootling around on the straw, feathers notably shiny. In the sorting area by the coop, there is a button to make a conveyor belt deliver white, blue, pink and brown eggs into a tray, straight from the roosts.After this, they soon became famous, and significant British supermarkets (Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose) across the UK started selling these eggs.

NOTE: Beware of rogue dealers selling look-alike inferior hens and claiming that they are Burford Browns ! The Old Cotswold Legbar

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Frankly anyone who has bought a burford brown from the producer is as mad as anyone who pays the huge premium for the eggs. This may be the eggiest egg I’ve seen, with an even, pale terracotta shell that reminds me of the rubber egg we once bought from a joke shop to fool my mum (simpler times). Inside, it has a firm, opaque white and an ordinary-looking apricot yolk – but, to be fair, a lovely rich flavour. (After thinking hard for several minutes, I realise it’s hard to describe the flavour of an egg. They taste of eggs, simple as that.) These are rather quiet birds, making them a wonderful choice for an urban garden provided there is adequate room for them.

Barred Wyandottes, Light Sussex, Rhode Island Reds, White Jersey Giants, Bantam Vorwerks, Bantam Buff Orpingtons, Bantam Chocolate Orpingtons, Lavender Pekins, Columbian Pekins, Gold Partridge Pekins and Buff Pekins. Due to their excellent breeding, they can be disease free if well looked after and kept in the right conditions.

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The glamorous interloper; a pure white egg, just like the ones on US cooking shows. Even though I know full well that the shade of a shell is determined by the breed that laid it, the difference is still mildly exciting. The white feels very compact and tight (possibly because it’s the smallest egg in the test), the yolk is deeply yellow (this is usually down to the hen’s diet) and the taste? You guessed it – like an egg. They can be one of the more expensive breeds, but the extra cost is well worth it for the quality of the eggs that they produce. There are few things on Earth as perfect as an egg. As Vladimir Nabokov wrote in the single most appetising parenthesis in western literature, a soft-boiled egg with buttered toast is “(the most delicious meal known to man)”. With the cost of living crisis worsening, there are few cheaper sources of nutrition, too. The egg is egalitarian and utilitarian. To my mind, there is no reason for Deliveroo to exist when you can prepare a three-egg omelette in 30 seconds.