Anyone have picky egg eaters in their house that only eat store eggs?

[JennsPeeps]

When I got my girls, I found out that my mom won't eat brown eggs.

I thought about getting a leghorn so that I could give her white eggs, then I found out that she won't eat my eggs at all, after hearing me talk about what they eat: bugs, fridge leftovers, meat, etc.

I give up. She doesn't want my eggs and I don't want to give her any. If people don't want fresh eggs, they're welcome to buy eggs at the grocery store. But if they come to my home or eat anything I've made, I'm not making any excuses about using my own eggs in my own kitchen.

I give my eggs only to people who genuinely light up when I hand over the eggs. These people tend to be so excited that they tell me what they make with the eggs in great detail.

BTW, I live on a small lot in suburbia - chickens are a real novelty here and people automatically assume I live on acreage when they find out I have chickens. It's a great conversation starter and a good way to educate people that they can grow their own food on small pieces of land.

 

[Reinbeau]

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They surely don't deserve them! I wouldn't waste my eggs on people who don't appreciate them, I have too many who do and not enough hens to supply them all!

 

[Bettacreek]

Well, we don't really eat eggs very often here. We buy the crappy white ones from Wal-mart because they're cheaper, but hubby prefers the brown, cage-free eggs if we have to buy them from Walmart. He'll scarf them down if they're local eggs though, but $2.12/18 @ Walmart vs. about $3/12 for good, local eggs is just too much for me. However, I picked up a silkie chick, a cochin, have some silkie eggs on the way (just in case my silkie is a roo!) and some bantam EE eggs coming soon (lol). Hubby wasn't happy when I brought the chickies home, but now we're both drooling over the eggs we should be getting later this year. I'm even drooling over button eggs, even though the most hens we'll have is 3. Having our own birds laying will be an incentive to eat more eggs (they'll taste better, and we'll have a better appreciation for them), so I really can't wait.

I think it's weird that people are weirded out about colored eggs. I admit, the green/blue eggs will be odd, but, certainly isn't going to prevent me from eating them... The only difference that I've noticed is that the shells on the brown eggs seem to be thicker than the white eggs, but hubby swears that brown eggs taste richer...

 

[reveriereptile]

We tried to use an egg carton from the store boughten eggs to put our white eggs into it but the eggs are much bigger than the store ones so the carton won't even shut. I actually think the brown eggs look better and cleaner than the white ones. Might be cause the white ones show up dirt more easily. I'm not much of an egg eater but I don't mind french toast and I don't notice the eggs in baked items. We have a lot of Amish around where I live and had one that use to help milk for us so we gave our extra eggs to him. He doesn't have as much money as some of the other families since he moved up here without any family so he kids love any extras we give them. We spoil them during the holidays by giving the kids candy and a turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas. This Spring we will be incubating eggs so we won't have extras. Going to try to hatch out my first turkeys this summer. Last summer it was chickens, ducks, and geese. Had a great hatch from one of our muscovy ducks that we let do her own since we collected from the other female and she hatched out 11 healthy ducks. We moved them till they got bigger and then they kept getting under and over the fence. They moved themselves into the barn with the calves and one came up missing. Then we gave half of them to an uncle. The mother kept going down into the main barn so we rounded her up in a pen for the moment and a couple days later we let her out and she was only out for a day and got hit by a car and a month later the last 4 (one healed from a broken leg from a calf stepping one it) came up missing all in one night. Don't know if they got eaten or someone grabbed them during the night when they were asleep by the road. Never seen any bodies or remains anywhere. Our other female tried to hatch some but a RIR hen laid eggs in the nest and tried to share the nest with her but they kept knocking the eggs around and out. Only one hatched but died.

 

[nerfy]

Wow, the eggworthy people I know and give eggs to really like fresh eggs, no matter what color the shells are. They know the difference, and can't wait to get them.
My DH and I were famished after a long morning of running around.
We decided to stop for breakfast. I had eggs benedict. I split the egg with my fork, yes, the pale yellow yolk. That grossed me out.
I forgot how bland they were. Guess my girls spoiled me.

 

[cackle]

My sister from Dallas had come to visit last summer before my chickens were laying and I had bought some egg from the farmer around the corner and his eggs are mixed colors. The first morning she was here I was going to soft boil some eggs so I pulled out brown ones thinking she might think the blue or green ones strange. I looked over and she had put the brown ones back and picked out the blue ones. I recently met her in Asheville for a girls day away and took her 5 1/2 dozen eggs. 1 1/2 were silkie eggs and she was trying to figure out if once she drove back to Dallas there was a way to get them to her son in NYC.

I have a DIL that will not eat the eggs because they are fertile. I found out she was taking them to be nice then throwing them out... No more eggs to her house!!!

 

[dizzychicken]

Okay, I might sound really stupid, but I have battled with this mentality for years. I grew up on a farm and refused to eat any of it's production. I would drink the fresh milk, but I begged my Grandpa to sell of the bull calves because I couldn't bear to eat something that I developed a relationship with, through feeding and care taking.

Now that I am grown, I seriously am working on this. It is all mental which leads to me feeling physically sick to think about eating fresh farmed things. My husband and kids were not allowed to hunt or fish because I couldn't bear to eat any of the catch. But after all the deer that has been hit around here, it is seriously a road hazard that has been deadly more than once. So, I am more accepting of it. I will not eat it, but they love it so I can step out till they have their fill.

My husband has tried to get me to eat a brown egg numerous times but I would freak out at the brown egg color and it just grossed me out. Now, I am seriously working on this. We have two coops of hens and we gather fresh eggs daily. I am starting out slowly by cooking the eggs into things such as meatloaf last night. I was able to eat it without any gag reflexes. Tomorrow, I am going to be brave and try an omlette, but I hope I am not pushing it.

I got the chickens because of economic times getting worse by the minute and I know I must get over this silly reaction. I know in my mind that they are more humane to eat (meaning I treat my chickens with love, then battery caged chickens), and probably a lot more healthy, but it is purely a psychological flaw.

I hope to master the green eggs first (the ones I used in my meatloaf) and then on to the Welsumer dark brown ones. I don't think I can even attempt to cull an adult and eat it, but if I was starving and my kids needed food, I wouldn't hesitate.

I am a freak and unworthy, I know, but do I get brownie points for trying?

 

[shelleyd2008]

My picky eater will only eat quail eggs, so no help here!

 

[#1California Chick]

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Absolutely!! Keep it up!! You are doing good!!

Welcome from California!!

 

[lichick28]

I got a white egg layer & put them in the store container for my silly family