BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[LeslieDJoyce]

Silly farmers, putting all their pullet eggs on the compost heap because they're too stupid to know to eat them. For shame.

 

[Beer can]

I doubt they put them in compost heap. I like small eggs, bantam eggs for pickled eggs. You can fit a lot more in a jug. I wonder how many quail eggs will fit in a qt or gallon jug...Quail eggs for scotch eggs, perfect bar snack...

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I doubt they put them in compost heap. I like small eggs, bantam eggs for pickled eggs. You can fit a lot more in a jug. I wonder how many quail eggs will fit in a qt or gallon jug...Quail eggs for scotch eggs, perfect bar snack...

Of course farmers don't waste the small eggs. But that's what the article implies: pay more for pullet eggs so farmers stop wasting them. Plus: they taste better.

There were a lot of silly ideas in the article. Like that pullet eggs have a larger percentage of yolk to white. Which is sometimes true, sometimes not ... sometimes pullet eggs have very little yolk compared to white.

That said, everything the article stated about pullet eggs being better for baking, creamier, richer than "regular" eggs is actually true for duck eggs.

 

[Dead Rabbit]

Very true. If a person can put up with the filth ducks create, than ducks are far superior in production compared to chickens

 

[neopolitancrazy]

For those of you in warm areas, how do you store your hatching eggs? I've read they need to be at 50-60F, but even at this time of year, no where in my house is near that - best I can do is 68-70. I have a wine fridge at 55, but am worried about humidity (and it would need to be thoroughly cleaned, had used it for a "root cellar" this past year).

(Sorry for the multiple sequential posts...)

- Ant Farm

I use a wine fridge as my hatching egg storage facility, the humidity seemed fine; as in the air cell was exactly the expected size. The eggs should only be stored a week-10 days at most or you will see a lower percentage hatch rate. I doubt that earth from root vegetables would hurt anything.

Best wishes,
Angela

 

[dfr1973]

I just caught up the cockerel I call Bigfoot and "marked" his comb with Blu-Kote so I can easily identify him in the dark, then hubby took a few pics. Bigfoot is from the October 19th hatch, and will be the only one I grow out without caponizing..

 

[bnjrob]

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I have some people that I give eggs to and they, and their friends & family they share with, have told me that our eggs have a much richer, "meatier" quality to them compared to store bought eggs. They don't make a differentiation between pullet eggs or full size hen eggs, they just tell me how much they love our eggs. Sometimes I get a huge yolk in a pullet egg but usually they are proportional to their size. My husband no longer takes eggs to work (in the city) to give to coworkers after they started complaining that the free eggs they were getting had too many small ones in the carton.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I like smaller eggs, but it was more for being able to dial in smaller amounts of egg for breakfast if I wanted. The farmer I got them from had trouble selling them a bit, though that may be changing. Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed that for my pullets, as their eggs get larger and larger, it's often yolk that gets bigger, not the white.

But I bet you could totally get people to buy smaller pullet eggs (that they may not otherwise choose) by renaming and calling them "rare" and having a "limited season". People are funny...

- Ant Farm

 

[ronott1]

Traditionally pullet eggs are used for baking. they are supposed to make the rise higher. They are still used for baking. The egg whites and other already processed eggs that bakeries use come from pullet eggs. That is what commercial egg batteries do with them.

 

[Kev]

I like smaller eggs, but it was more for being able to dial in smaller amounts of egg for breakfast if I wanted. The farmer I got them from had trouble selling them a bit, though that may be changing. Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed that for my pullets, as their eggs get larger and larger, it's often yolk that gets bigger, not the white.

But I bet you could totally get people to buy smaller pullet eggs (that they may not otherwise choose) by renaming and calling them "rare" and having a "limited season". People are funny...

- Ant Farm

Just like products that always have been gluten free starting to put "Gluten Free" on their packaging... sad to say that actually worked quite well for some products.