{"id":4879,"date":"2024-04-22T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?post_type=purduetoday&p=4879"},"modified":"2024-08-03T20:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T00:40:16","slug":"boilermaker-butcher-block-adds-eggs-from-chickens-fed-orange-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2024\/Q2\/boilermaker-butcher-block-adds-eggs-from-chickens-fed-orange-corn","title":{"rendered":"Boilermaker Butcher Block adds eggs from chickens fed orange corn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.<\/strong> \u2014 Purdue University\u2019s Boilermaker Butcher Block, located in the Land O\u2019Lakes Inc. Center for Experiential Learning at 720 Clinic Drive in West Lafayette, will now offer farm-fresh eggs laid by Purdue chickens that are fed orange corn. The eggs are being sold for $6 a dozen, with the proceeds helping to support the Butcher Block\u2019s educational mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orange corn is a nutritionally enhanced type of corn developed by Purdue agronomy professor Torbert Rocheford<\/a> as part of an international humanitarian effort aimed at addressing malnutrition globally. Since 2017, Rocheford\u2019s startup company, NutraMaize<\/a>, has worked closely with the Purdue Department of Animal Sciences to demonstrate the benefits of orange corn for poultry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A team of researchers, including Rocheford and Darrin Karcher<\/a>, associate professor of animal sciences, has found orange corn to have some benefits, such as having more antioxidant carotenoids, which are associated with darker, richer yolks and reducing the risk of age-related macular degeneration<\/a>. Additional research from Purdue\u2019s agronomy and animal sciences departments and NutraMaize found that orange corn produces healthier hens<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe decided to sell the eggs because of the introduction of orange corn,\u201d poultry unit manager Jason Fields said. \u201cWe thought it would be a way to introduce a product that nobody else had. We have a lot of pride in our birds and in the programs that we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly every part of the egg production process takes place on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe orange corn is grown at the Agronomy Center for Research and Education<\/a>,\u201d Emily Ford, manager of the Butcher Block, explained. \u201cThe chickens are raised at the Animal Sciences Research and Education Center<\/a> farms. The eggs are washed and packaged at the farms. Then we sell the eggs at the Butcher Block. It\u2019s Purdue farm to fork.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fields said, \u201cIt\u2019s great that we can provide food to people under the Purdue name, but it\u2019s also another way that we can educate our consumers about the food and where it comes from.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the future, the Butcher Block plans to get students involved in the egg production. \u201cWe want to get all hands on deck,\u201d Ford said. \u201cWe want to expose interested students to the process. Initially, however, we want to have a good idea of the process before we extend that knowledge to students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Purdue University is a public research institution demonstrating excellence at scale. Ranked among top 10 public universities and with two colleges in the top four in the United States, Purdue discovers and disseminates knowledge with a quality and at a scale second to none. More than 105,000 students study at Purdue across modalities and locations, including nearly 50,000 in person on the West Lafayette campus. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue\u2019s main campus has frozen tuition 13 years in a row. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap \u2014 including its first comprehensive urban campus in Indianapolis, the new Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, and Purdue Computes \u2014 at https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/president\/strategic-initiatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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