A series of tests over a period of 5 months of the general quality and baking properties of eggs showed that, apart from a striking difference in colour of the liquid whole egg, which was paler in the case of eggs from battery hens, only small differences in other properties, of no commercial importance, could be detected with eggs from free‐range hens of the same parent stock.
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Cornford et al. (1960) studied this question.