2023-11-03 14:30:00
This may have happened to you before: finding a feather on one of your four, six, eight or twelve store-bought eggs. Is this a marketing stunt? Our Flemish colleagues from HLN asked the question to Annabelle Vanhaecke, technical advisor in laying hens at Pehestat, an organization specializing in poultry research.
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“I actually heard that manufacturers voluntarily leave this feather, because the eggs seem more “organic”,” she explains. She nevertheless specifies: “What I am sure of is how these feathers get there and I doubt that some people deliberately leave them there.”
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It is easy to understand that they simply come from the laying hen. As logical as it may seem, you simply cannot remove them all at triage. “Once the egg is laid, it arrives at the room on a conveyor belt. The employees sort the eggs there: those that are broken or dirty are removed as well as as many feathers as possible. Some feathers fall out along the way. But it is impossible to delete them all. Sometimes there is one left,” concludes Annabelle Vanhaecke.
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