I am not vegan........ but any extra eggs around here get hard boiled and fed back to the chickens.
Are your chickens vegan too?
Are your chickens vegan too?
Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat
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wow just wow. i guess i have a good tsc they all know what they are talking about and if they have golden comet pullets for sale in a bin they will put up a red pullet sign and then stick a peice of paper under the sign that says what breed it is SUPPOSED TO BE they even tell you that that is what the hatchery told them they were. i have gotten to be friends with a few of the workers and they have told me a few horror stories they had one lady come in who wanted her money back because all the chicks were "sick" and died so they asked her where she was keeping them and she said "in my bath tub" and then they asked her how she was keeping them warm and she said "well i put just enough warm water in the bottom to cover their feet and that way they could LAY IN IT if they got cold". then they had another guy who said he wanted his money back because they all died too and they asked him the same thing about were he kept them and he said "i just put them out in the wire pen outside with food and water" so they asked if he had a heat lamp on them and he said "HECK NO i didn't put a heat lamp on them that takes up to much money to run" then he said "i don't want weak chickens if they can't survive without a heat lamp as a chick they will be weak the rest of their lives" and let me say that they tell you everything you need to know before you get them they tell you everything from what to feed too vaccinate with if they get sick when they are adults.
Oh my goodness
I think those people should be kept outside naked with no heat in below zero weather and see if they survive. Oh also sit in the tub while outside with water in hopes to keep warm. What idiots...some people
Hey, Blooie!
Don't get all mental about your homegrown eggs.... You know how much better your garden produce is from store-bought; right? Same with the eggs. They will be better and better for you because they haven't traveled hither and yon to get to your table. My mom always said the less food is handled, the better it is for you. Ergo, we didn't eat a whole lot of processed foods growing up and I thank her to this day for that as fast food, chips and soda have no place on my diet repertoire and I probably dodged an unhealth bullet or two due to those choices. We enjoyed homegrown apples that I've never tasted better and fresh lettuces. (Yeah, as a kid I enjoyed salad!)
Your eggs came from your yard, be proud and enjoy!
Don't get all mental about your homegrown eggs.... You know how much better your garden produce is from store-bought; right? Same with the eggs. They will be better and better for you because they haven't traveled hither and yon to get to your table. My mom always said the less food is handled, the better it is for you. Ergo, we didn't eat a whole lot of processed foods growing up and I thank her to this day for that as fast food, chips and soda have no place on my diet repertoire and I probably dodged an unhealth bullet or two due to those choices. We enjoyed homegrown apples that I've never tasted better and fresh lettuces. (Yeah, as a kid I enjoyed salad!)
Your eggs came from your yard, be proud and enjoy!
My sister was very interested in getting my chicken eggs because she was having to drive to a farm semi-close by and pick up their "free range organic" eggs. Once she got my eggs, she said they tasted so much better and were so much prettier than the "free range organic" eggs that she hated having to go buy them, even at the store, when I ran short during the winter. The yolk on those "free range" and "organic" eggs is the same color as the eggs in the store, whereas mine are a deep orange-red. Don't let that scare you, it just means they eat grass and whatever else they've come across that looks yummy. Some are a deeper color than others depending on how hard they work. I've an EE that gives me the deepest orange color because even when they're cooped up for predators, she flies over the 6' fence to keep up with her work. She's one canny chicken. The laziest chicken that usually waits till I put out the feed, has a yellower colored yolk, but still darker than the store.
Make omelets, make quiche, cook with them until you get used to the way they look and that might help. Then try eating them. When my daughter saw our first green (shell) egg, she was too excited to have green eggs and ham! I had to add some blue food coloring, but she still swears they're better than the other colors.
Make omelets, make quiche, cook with them until you get used to the way they look and that might help. Then try eating them. When my daughter saw our first green (shell) egg, she was too excited to have green eggs and ham! I had to add some blue food coloring, but she still swears they're better than the other colors.
I'm sure I will get "over it", whatever "it" is! If I could just get the mental picture of Ma's shudder out of my head! All of my fresh produce tastes better than anything else. And we do love the meats that we managed to get into the freezer. All of my grandkids love salads and fresh foods - even the 2 1/2 year old who is just now starting to eat some table foods. (Kendra's been on baby and pureed food until just the last two months - her Spina Bifida caused a few digestive issues that had to be resolved first.) But the queen of the eaters is her 8 year old big sister Katie. At two years old we had to teach Katie how to crack her own crab legs because I couldn't keep up and eat my own too. She discovered steamed clams, mussels - or Mermaid Spoons, as she calls them - at around 4 years old, and loves and any vegetable except peas. (she won't touch them - she doesn't like the way they feel in her mouth. This from the kid who loves mussels?) I had to scold her for getting into my broccoli plants...the second the plant started putting out the beginnings of a broccoli head it was picked off. And tomatoes? She grows her own plants over here at Gramma's (they live across the street) and she has a little basket that she puts the little grape tomatoes in as they ripen. Sometimes that basket even makes it home - sometimes! LOL So I don't imagine I'll have any issues when the eggs start coming, but I know it's important for me not to let my nervousness show. Heck, I'm sure I'll be over it by then anyway, right? I have my support group now, right?
Katie and a crab leg - 2 1/2 years
Katie enjoying some steamed clams - 8 years old
Katie fixing a veggie snack platter for movie time at Grammas - 6 years And yes, those are green peppers she's adding!
My mother is not a vegan, and she'll have eggs every meal of the day. Also, my best friend takes some every week, as her family is vegan except for farm fresh foods and it's hard for them to find cheap food. I just give her extras. The people on the farm where the chickens live get around a dozen each week.
wow just wow. i guess i have a good tsc they all know what they are talking about and if they have golden comet pullets for sale in a bin they will put up a red pullet sign and then stick a peice of paper under the sign that says what breed it is SUPPOSED TO BE they even tell you that that is what the hatchery told them they were. i have gotten to be friends with a few of the workers and they have told me a few horror stories they had one lady come in who wanted her money back because all the chicks were "sick" and died so they asked her where she was keeping them and she said "in my bath tub" and then they asked her how she was keeping them warm and she said "well i put just enough warm water in the bottom to cover their feet and that way they could LAY IN IT if they got cold". then they had another guy who said he wanted his money back because they all died too and they asked him the same thing about were he kept them and he said "i just put them out in the wire pen outside with food and water" so they asked if he had a heat lamp on them and he said "HECK NO i didn't put a heat lamp on them that takes up to much money to run" then he said "i don't want weak chickens if they can't survive without a heat lamp as a chick they will be weak the rest of their lives" and let me say that they tell you everything you need to know before you get them they tell you everything from what to feed too vaccinate with if they get sick when they are adults.
Those people are also allowed to reproduce, and they do.
I had a neighbor ask do you have ant extra eggs I said of course with 40 hens go figure. So she asks what do you do with them. I sell them. Oh how much ? 2.00 a dozen. She says omg that is so expensive. WHAT!!!!! organic free range eggs in the store are 5.00 a dozen. Regular eggs are 2.00 a dozen. She tells me that I can't sell them as free range because I put them in the coop at night. Mind you during the day they range over 3 acres of land. Drives me nuts. Ok end rant
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