1st eggs to eat or not to eat

[woodmort]

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Add that to the list of "Dumb Things Some People Do". (I will qualify that by saying I wouldn't eat those that are from pullets still on medicated feed but again another DTSPD is to feed medicated food to birds over 8 weeks old) Of course you should eat it, the first one's always taste the best.

 

[WoodlandWoman]

I thought this was going to be a choice about whether to eat them or save them.

Those little pullet eggs are so cute! I would blow the egg out of the shell and keep them. I tried to keep a couple of little pullet eggs in the frig and let them gradually dry out, so the shell would be whole and not have holes in it. My husband gave them to his friend to eat! I had told him I was saving them, but he forgets things like that. I think their grand children ate them and thought they were so cute and fun.

For you, I say eat them. Mmm...

 

[carrlr]

Take a picture of it, crack it and maybe even compare to a store bought egg, then eat and enjoy. Congrats!!!!!

 

[forstadt]

Got my first two eggs two days ago and today. Tonight, my family of five is splitting an omelet!

 

[kidarcy]

yeah i thought it was crazy talk too! funny, i've had 4 eggs so far, the first & fourth were brown speckled and middle two eggs where solid brown. any one had that happen before? possible two different hens? out of my 6 hens i know one is laying for sure, others should be close....

 

[carrlr]

I have three distinct breeds of layers and can tell which breed lays which color, size, etc. I would say you have two layers if the colors are different enough and some speckeled and others not. Pix would be nice.

 

[dsqard]

Yes do eat the first ones! They are so yummy! We got our first egg last week and DH and I hard boiled it and each had a bite! Still have only one pullet laying so we had to save up enough eggs to have breakfast for dinner and we did that last night! It was great to sit down and eat our own eggs!

 

[chipmunkridge]

I vote to eat it!

 

[kidarcy]

bummer, i went to check this evening and no egg. 4 days in a row and nothing today

guess they took the day off. i'll try and get some pics up tommorrow of the two different eggs. i have 3 black rocks and 3 rhode island whites.

 

[greathorse]

I think it may be an old wives tale from way way back in the day. My housekeeper had a fit when I told her I was going to eat those very first pullet eggs. She said her mother, very much an old school farm gal that had chickens her whole life was emphatic that the first eggs should not be eaten. She of course could not tell me why only that they were inedible. I dont know where this stuff comes from.

You will get some weird ones in those first few from time to time. You can get some double yokers, no yokers misshapen and so forth but that is it