Anyone feel guilty at their first egg?

[Cherry Bird]

When you went out to the coop and found your first egg, did you feel guilty eating it? Or was it nothing but yummy?

 

[Chick1043]

I'm still waiting for my first egg eagerly!! Why would you feel guilty eating it?

 

[6chick*start]

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Oh this is funny! I have been wondering the same thing and glad I am not the only one.
Any day now and I can hardly wait for the guilt! I've worked hard for it!
But oy! The guilt!
Hahaha!

 

[Chick1043]

Why would you feel guilty eating it? lol I would be kinda excited!

 

[mrdruids]

i felt more guilty taking it, eating it was very exciting

before i knew how to break one of my chickens broods i felt really guilty about snagging eggs from under her because she would roll the other chickens' eggs to her spot and lay on them and i felt like i was making her sad

 

[6chick*start]

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Oh I am very excited and can hardly wait for that wonderful deep color and richness!
Just a tad worried I might feel as if I am eating a grandbaby!
I am new at this you see and they are, well, my babies ...

 

[hcppam]

6chick*start :

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Oh this is funny! I have been wondering the same thing and glad I am not the only one.
Any day now and I can hardly wait for the guilt! I've worked hard for it!
But oy! The guilt!
Hahaha!

Me Too.

 

[farmerinKC]

I think I will only feel guilty if I eat it-instead of giving it to my son who did all the work of building the coop and run-then modifying it-again and again-and again!

 

[CarolJ]

It never crossed my mind to feel guilty. I got my first egg Monday afternoon - enjoyed it for breakfast Tuesday morning. The same hen laid the second egg today - and I"m saving it for when my granddaughters visit tomorrow. They'll share it. I'm the one who takes care of the chickens each day. So I got the first egg. No guilt - just enjoyment.

 

[gryeyes]

I don't know if it was all that guilty, but I did have a brief, introspective moment when I picked up the very first egg from the nest. Here was a gift from a pullet I'd raised from a chick, working so hard to make this, and I'm gonna take it from her just to EAT it?

Then I realized she'd laid it and left. Out in the yard, being a chicken. Whoops! An egg! Off to go look for good bugs.

Thanks for the egg, sweetie! Om nom num...

Now, removing eggs from beneath a hen, I don't do that unless she's broody and I need to remove later eggs she's stolen to add to her clutch.

Not taking eggs while a hen is in the nest is the way I get a clue if a hen is broody or not. I gather at different times of the day, so if a hen is on the nest for two nights in a row, she's probably gone broody.