LadyVictorian
Songster
Wow as someone raised from a European family and living in America we are actually freaked out by the store bought eggs which is why we are going back to raising our own hens. (organic is expensive and still sit in stores for a long time, farm fresh is just better). We don't like the pale yolks in most store bought eggs. When my family from Europe came here and they saw store bought eggs they refused to eat them saying it looked like it came from a sick chicken. We laughed and agreed with them. They are use to more dark orange and even red yolks. The farmer my aunt gets her eggs from have straight up red yolks and they look beautiful. They must raise those chickens in a marigold field xD
I think it's so weird people prefer store bought eggs if they have connections to farm fresh eggs. I guess I grew up in a different community but store bought around where I live means you don't live on a farm, near a farm, or are too poor to buy good fresh eggs. After our hen died we still get our eggs from next door since her 6 hens lay more than they can use. That and my coworker is trying t shuffle eggs out of his coop. His 18 girls lay WAY more than his family of 5 will ever need. I know a few of my friends changed their minds about eating your traditional store bought eggs when seeing video's of how those chickens are kept and how they look. Most of them don't even have feathers on their bellies in those cages.
Also once asked my vegan friend why she does not eat eggs and she told me it was because it was killing a baby chick. I told her eggs don't need to be fertilized for a hen to lay them. Hens lay unfertilized eggs, it's virtually like having your period. They lay with or without a rooster. She then argued that they were still the hens eggs and it was wrong to take them away from the hen. I ten told her all the hen was going to do was sit on unfertilized eggs, possibly destroy them or wait until they don't hatch and abandon them for wild animals to eat and possibly draw in and hunt the hens. Still didn't make her budge. When she said forcing hens to lay eggs that will never hatch was wrong I nearly pulled my hair out and screamed "THEY LAY EGGS WITH OR WITHOUT HUMAN INTERVENTION IT'S WHAT THEY DO." Ugh.I don't think it makes sense somehow in their head's, I feel like they need to get out of the city and live on a farm for a month. Maybe this should become a requirement for city slickers. Or at least raise small livestock like chickens in a community plot to understand how things work.
I think it's so weird people prefer store bought eggs if they have connections to farm fresh eggs. I guess I grew up in a different community but store bought around where I live means you don't live on a farm, near a farm, or are too poor to buy good fresh eggs. After our hen died we still get our eggs from next door since her 6 hens lay more than they can use. That and my coworker is trying t shuffle eggs out of his coop. His 18 girls lay WAY more than his family of 5 will ever need. I know a few of my friends changed their minds about eating your traditional store bought eggs when seeing video's of how those chickens are kept and how they look. Most of them don't even have feathers on their bellies in those cages.
Also once asked my vegan friend why she does not eat eggs and she told me it was because it was killing a baby chick. I told her eggs don't need to be fertilized for a hen to lay them. Hens lay unfertilized eggs, it's virtually like having your period. They lay with or without a rooster. She then argued that they were still the hens eggs and it was wrong to take them away from the hen. I ten told her all the hen was going to do was sit on unfertilized eggs, possibly destroy them or wait until they don't hatch and abandon them for wild animals to eat and possibly draw in and hunt the hens. Still didn't make her budge. When she said forcing hens to lay eggs that will never hatch was wrong I nearly pulled my hair out and screamed "THEY LAY EGGS WITH OR WITHOUT HUMAN INTERVENTION IT'S WHAT THEY DO." Ugh.I don't think it makes sense somehow in their head's, I feel like they need to get out of the city and live on a farm for a month. Maybe this should become a requirement for city slickers. Or at least raise small livestock like chickens in a community plot to understand how things work.
