[jimwhitson]

This has been my experience as well. Truly free-ranging hens give the best eggs, often almost up to the quality of ducks' eggs. Interestingly I find very little perceptible difference between the eggs of different breeds (once cooked at least), but roasted cocks of different breeds taste vastly different.

[gadders]

One advantage of different breeds is it enables you to produce white or even blue eggs. Blue hens eggs look pretty cool.

[wiredfool]

We've only eaten one of our roos. He was delicious in a speckled sussex-au-vin. And the bits from the carcass were amazing as leftovers in a fritatta.