After raising poultry are eggs ruined for you guys?( I raise ducks but this occurs to anybody)

[Soon2BChixMom]

Knowing who's butt those eggs come from does play mind games with me. I have to be craving eggs and not think about them to eat them. Otherwise ,,,,

There are two chutes back there - one closes so the other can open to deliver the egg. That's how I am able to rectify the idea of eating eggs. Before I got chickens, I never gave the delivery of eggs a second thought.

 

[happy duck]

I really enjoy them in baking more then right on a plate in my face. I really think I am 1. picky, and 2. they are kinda sorta my ducks babies ish so I kinda get that in my head...and it makes me sad.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

There are two chutes back there - one closes so the other can open to deliver the egg. That's how I am able to rectify the idea of eating eggs. Before I got chickens, I never gave the delivery of eggs a second thought.

Still, it's tissue manufactured inside an animal. I'm a vegetarian for a reason. That's just gross to me, but sometimes I need some complete protein so I eat them.

 

[BantyChooks]

Nope! I like eggs better now than before. I eat more of them, too. They don't care, if I left them in the boxes they'd eat the eggs themselves. I'm just using them instead. I think it's a fair trade---feed and shelter for butt nuggets.

 

[Miss Lydia]

 

[BantyChooks]

Still, it's tissue manufactured inside an animal. I'm a vegetarian for a reason. That's just gross to me, but sometimes I need some complete protein so I eat them.

I find it amazing how they can convert chicken feed and bugs into something so delicious and nutritious. What was that old jingle about the incredible, edible egg?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I find it amazing how they can convert chicken feed and bugs into something so delicious and nutritious. What was that old jingle about the incredible, edible egg?

It's the snotty chalazae that get me. Gotta pick them out. I just have problems with food mentally in general. Please don't ask me to eat out either.

It is amazing though.

 

[Folly's place]

I have a hard time eating commercial eggs, bland pale things that they are, from those overcrowded miserable birds.
To the OP: it's a cultural issue here in the USA, IMO. Food appears in boxes at the grocery store, totally unrelated to the farm, mother nature, or anything 'real' beyond that store shelf. Only about 2% of us are rural, not city, and can connect to the food chain directly. I too cleaned the fish I caught when I was a kid!
I could go on and on, but rant over, for now!
Mary

 

[BantyChooks]

I, myself, am looking forward to eggs. Number 2 reason for getting ducks! I’d have no problem eating their meat either - though I’m not going to slaughter them - so it would depend on how they will have died.

On a side note - I also made my kids clean the fish they caught before they ate it. Just a part of being at the top of the food chain - for now!

Mean rooster chili is the best thing ever. I could eat nothing else for a month.
I didn't use my birds for meat for a few years, but I do now. I believe it's my responsibility as part of running a breeding program. Selling weaklings or otherwise subpar birds isn't right.

It's the snotty chalazae that get me. Gotta pick them out. I just have problems with food mentally in general. Please don't ask me to eat out either.

It is amazing though.

Hey, at least you'll never have the insane restaurant bill that some people rack up.

I have a hard time eating commercial eggs, bland pale things that they are, from those overcrowded miserable birds.
To the OP: it's a cultural issue here in the USA, IMO. Food appears in boxes at the grocery store, totally unrelated to the farm, mother nature, or anything 'real' beyond that store shelf. Only about 2% of us are rural, not city, and can connect to the food chain directly. I too cleaned the fish I caught when I was a kid!
I could go on and on, but rant over, for now!
Mary

2%? That's worse than I thought.

 

[Chick-N-Daddy]

No problem. I am confusing myself to. To clear myself up: it is hard to just eat eggs in general just cuz I own the poultry....if that makes since.

I think it's kinda cruel to keep an animal which goes through all that effort for you, and then to NOT consume the output of those loving efforts.

Then again, I live on Mars...