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Is anyone interested in having 2 young (9weeks) Australorp roos? Two of my girls have turned out to be boys. They are hatchery chicks but they are very nice looking and extremely healthy. Also VERY tame. We are not too soft about eating things we have raised, but these two are just so friendly and trusting, I would rather they go somewhere else. Don't care if someone else wants a chicken dinner! Or whatever, maybe junior showmanship?

Wish I had someplace for them.  I love Australorps!

OK, I have a question for those of you that sell eating eggs...

I rarely sell eating eggs, because 1. I have mostly bantams and 2. I mostly sell them as hatching eggs

SO, I will often give a coworker a dozen bantam eggs for eating, and have been doing that for a couple of months with one of the vets I work with.  After the first dozen, he insisted on paying me for them.  His idea, not mine.  Then yesterday at work, he complained that the yolks were too big and rich and he didn't want to get eggs from me any more.  WHAT??!?  

Has anyone experienced this before?  I was shocked, I didn't know what to say.  He followed that up with the fact that his girlfriend really likes them, so he will probably still get some from time to time, but he needs to eat store bought eggs.  WTH?  Apparently city-boy prefers an almost complete lack of flavor and texture.  

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Originally Posted by Cloverleaf Farm 

OK, I have a question for those of you that sell eating eggs...

 

I rarely sell eating eggs, because 1. I have mostly bantams and 2. I mostly sell them as hatching eggs

 

SO, I will often give a coworker a dozen bantam eggs for eating, and have been doing that for a couple of months with one of the vets I work with.  After the first dozen, he insisted on paying me for them.  His idea, not mine.  Then yesterday at work, he complained that the yolks were too big and rich and he didn't want to get eggs from me any more.  WHAT??!?  

 

Has anyone experienced this before?  I was shocked, I didn't know what to say.  He followed that up with the fact that his girlfriend really likes them, so he will probably still get some from time to time, but he needs to eat store bought eggs.  WTH?  Apparently city-boy prefers an almost complete lack of flavor and texture.  

You said it...city boy!

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Originally Posted by DeannaOR 

You said it...city boy!

I tell ya, it's a good thing that I was too shocked to speak.  I likely would've said something along the lines of "I'm sorry if a well fed, happy, healthy bird's egg has too much flavor for your delicate taste buds, I'm sure you'll be much happier with eggs from abused, mistreated, unhappy, unhealthy, poorly fed birds that live their entire lives in a cage and never see the light of day!"  

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Originally Posted by Cloverleaf Farm 

I tell ya, it's a good thing that I was too shocked to speak.  I likely would've said something along the lines of "I'm sorry if a well fed, happy, healthy bird's egg has too much flavor for your delicate taste buds, I'm sure you'll be much happier with eggs from abused, mistreated, unhappy, unhealthy, poorly fed birds that live their entire lives in a cage and never see the light of day!"  

and he is a Vet? I say send him articles and photos via email of the way his grocery store eggs make it to the shelves.

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Originally Posted by DeannaOR 

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Originally Posted by Cloverleaf Farm 

I tell ya, it's a good thing that I was too shocked to speak.  I likely would've said something along the lines of "I'm sorry if a well fed, happy, healthy bird's egg has too much flavor for your delicate taste buds, I'm sure you'll be much happier with eggs from abused, mistreated, unhappy, unhealthy, poorly fed birds that live their entire lives in a cage and never see the light of day!"  

and he is a Vet? I say send him articles and photos via email of the way his grocery store eggs make it to the shelves.

LOL  Good idea! 

hey! from Drain, OR. I found that the yolk size is the same in regular eggs and banty eggs, and those dark yolks are more healty than those tasteless store egg yolks.