California - Northern

[ChickNmamma]

thanks! You guys are just going to make me more chicken crazy than I already am! I'm raising chickens mostly as a self sustainability thing. What is everyone else's motivation for raising chickens? (Besides how fun and addicting they are!)

EGGS!

Blue eggs, specifically. Also, we had chickens for years, I hate the taste of store bought eggs.

 

[PetRock]

My 25 year old daughter (manager w/AT&T, married w/2kids) won't eat any of our eggs. She says that she doesn't want to know which butt the eggs she ate came from. She is also afraid of our chickens ever since our EE pecked at her painted toe nails. This is someone who used to install U-Verse and went under houses, up in attics, etc. LOL! She makes me laugh!

 

[ronott1]

Quote: One of my favorites was the one about the hens laying the eggs and then the Rooster coming by "fertilizing" the eggs.

 

[zooweemama]

One of my favorites was the one about the hens laying the eggs and then the Rooster coming by "fertilizing" the eggs.

NO WAY! Oh my gosh that's funny!

 

[zooweemama]

My 25 year old daughter (manager w/AT&T, married w/2kids) won't eat any of our eggs. She says that she doesn't want to know which butt the eggs she ate came from. She is also afraid of our chickens ever since our EE pecked at her painted toe nails. This is someone who used to install U-Verse and went under houses, up in attics, etc. LOL! She makes me laugh!

We all have our quirks. I know I have mine but I am so glad I am not easily grossed out. Whew!

 

[zooweemama]

We all have our quirks. I know I have mine but I am so glad I am not easily grossed out. Whew!

Well food wise that is. Spit really grosses me out. I cannot handle spit or phlegm - but pee, poop, puke - that's fine lol.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Quote: One of my favorites was the one about the hens laying the eggs and then the Rooster coming by "fertilizing" the eggs.

You have GOT to be kidding - where is this thread?

Some people don't want my fertilized eggs either because they are afraid to open an egg and find a dead chick. I try to explain that it requires incubation and 21 days to even get that far, and my birds do not even sit on the nest after they lay an egg -so there is no chance of anything like that. Another person said she didn't want to waste a possible life. And yet in her next breath she admitted she eats meat, so she knew she was not thinking clearly about this. I did sell a dozen eggs to both of them finally - so we will see if the taste and consistency helps...

About not wanting to know who's butt the egg came out of - I prefer knowing. That way I know they don't have salmonella or any thing else that could make me sick. I can eat my own raw eggs - and not worry. Its sort of like "hen presents"... thanks girls!

We used to trade chickens with neighbors so we wouldn't be personally attached to who we were eating, but that was just kid stuff... I guess some people don't grow up.

 

[PetRock]

Well food wise that is. Spit really grosses me out. I cannot handle spit or phlegm - but pee, poop, puke - that's fine lol.

I have six kids so not much in the way of bodily fluids grosses me out. But I sure don't like the idea of going into the crawl space under a house. You never know what you might meet under there! I don't like things that jump out and surprise me!

 

[zooweemama]

I have six kids so not much in the way of bodily fluids grosses me out. But I sure don't like the idea of going into the crawl space under a house. You never know what you might meet under there! I don't like things that jump out and surprise me!

Seriously- I let my husbands and sons handle that stuff! I will clean up the bodily fluid messes (except spit. or phlegmy barf - it makes me gag so bad). I have 4 kids and a ton of various animals and mostly just the spit bothers me. I even butcher my own chickens- so I think I can have my spit issues...my hubby doesn't want to butcher the animals. So he is on spit duty and climbing in attics/crawl spaces and I will process the birds and clean out the coops. haha!

 

[ronott1]

Quote: One of my favorites was the one about the hens laying the eggs and then the Rooster coming by "fertilizing" the eggs.

You have GOT to be kidding - where is this thread?

Some people don't want my fertilized eggs either because they are afraid to open an egg and find a dead chick. I try to explain that it requires incubation and 21 days to even get that far, and my birds do not even sit on the nest after they lay an egg -so there is no chance of anything like that. Another person said she didn't want to waste a possible life. And yet in her next breath she admitted she eats meat, so she knew she was not thinking clearly about this. I did sell a dozen eggs to both of them finally - so we will see if the taste and consistency helps...

About not wanting to know who's butt the egg came out of - I prefer knowing. That way I know they don't have salmonella or any thing else that could make me sick. I can eat my own raw eggs - and not worry. Its sort of like "hen presents"... thanks girls!

We used to trade chickens with neighbors so we wouldn't be personally attached to who we were eating, but that was just kid stuff... I guess some people don't grow up.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ut-your-chickens-eggs-meat/2650#post_10526490

Have fun!