1st egg - can I eat it?

[Debo's Chickens]

So I just got my first two eggs; one yesterday & one today.

Yesterday was exactly 3 weeks to the day since I brought them home. Is there any reason I shouldn't eat these eggs? Like if by chance they had been given some medication right before I got them, how long does one have to wait until they can eat the eggs? I don't know that they had received any medications, but I just want to be sure.

 

[bigzio]

It's up to you wether you want to eat them or not. I would, but that's me....I would fry them, chop them up and feed them back to the hens, if you aren't going to eat them. I know I would not allow them to go to waste.

bigzio

 

[Leah-yes I know I'm crazy]

Fried egg sandwich.

 

[Debo's Chickens]

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That was my idea too . . . that if I don't eat them, I could scramble them & feed to the chickens. BF thought that is the grossest thing he'd ever heard - chickens eating eggs. I told him it's quite common, a good source of protein, etc etc, but he still thought it was gross.

Oh well for him.

I guess I could call the guy & ask him if he had given any medications. Is the withdrawl period different for different medications? What is an average?

 

[clawmute]

Usually I just eat the soft inside parts and discard the container...........

 

[redoak]

Congrats on your first eggs, make an omelet

 

[chickorama]

The first eggs usually aren't as big as the ones they will lay as adults, but you can still eat them. We blow our first eggs, save the shell, and eat the rest because the little tiny eggs are so cute!

 

[onthespot]

I say crack it in a small bowl first. Reason being, a NN hen laid a first egg the other day, and I had already cracked several eggs in a bowl to make a killer manhole cover sized omelette to share with everyone, and the "first egg" landed in with all those perfect ones and the yolk was kind of greyish looking and watery. Not sure how long she was working on it. I had seen her hanging out in the nest boxes for several days without laying one.... so, just to be on the safe side, don't crack it into a big bowl of good eatin' eggs. Crack it into a cereal bowl or something and evaluate it first.

 

[the1much]

i take GREAT joy in eating all my "firsts"

 

[papadekaitlyn]