Eggs made someone sick????? VINDICATED! update 4/14/10

[sparkles2307]

So I have been selling eggs for 3 weeks now and have had nothing but rave reviews and even have a customer who orders 2 dozen a week in advance. I sold a carton to another coworker on Monday and she told me yesterday that my eggs made her husband sick and he spent all day in the bathroom... I didnt think that there was that much difference between farm and store eggs to make someone ill??? No one else has complained they all LOVE the eggs... so should I be worried?

 

[CoopCrazy]

I would say it is just coincidence that he happened to eat your eggs and get sick.. i would guess if everyone else that has been eating them is fine then maybe he was already getting sick and it just happened at the wrong time..

 

[Iowa Roo Mom]

If no one else has complained, then I'm betting it wasn't your eggs that caused them to fell ill. Determining the source of "food poisoning" can be difficult, at best, and with all the other possible causes out there, I'd be less inclined to blame your eggs, especially if they are the only ones who are ill.

 

[SarahFair]

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If other people are eating eggs from around that time and arent getting sick I wouldnt worry. I would think a lot of things could factor into it..
Maybe they left them into the car too long, maybe they cooked some bad milk or other objects with it, maybe it was something in the pan (left over dish soap for ex.), maybe it was something they ate before or after..

If I am not mistaken it takes a good many hours for food poisoning to set in.

 

[3goodeggs]

Is he a regular egg eater? do eggs normally make him sick? perhaps he has an egg allergy. There are many variables, people like to pick the easy target, not necessarily the correct one.

 

[sparkles2307]

Thanks for the reassurances everyone! I didnt think it was my eggs. the thing that I am finding to be extremely surprising is that almost EVERYONE in this neck of the woods has spent a good amount of time on farms in their lives but they are all very ignorant about these farm fresh eggs! THey think there is NO difference between mine and the store nutrition wise and that they are just doing me a favor buying them...

 

[fordmommy]

Unless the eggs were under cooked or even raw, he probably just picked up a "bug" somewhere. Chickens and other farm life can carry a bacteria called campylobacter jejuni. And it can make you sick. BUT.....it has an incubation period of 2 weeks. And 70% of the world population has this bacteria but it only effects 3%.

I know all this because I had it. BUT, I had it BEFORE I had any chickens or other farm animals. The source of my sickness is unknown. I was hospitalized for 4 days and recovery was nearly 3 months.

So I truely don't think it was the eggs.

 

[bethandjoeync]

i agree with others, I doubt it was the eggs.

and as for people not really thinking there is a difference in fresh farm eggs and store bought cheap eggs. I like to go through a "mine aren't pumped with hormones" and "my chickens are happy healthy chickens that lay when and where they want to" type of speeches for the sceptics.

some just don't understand where the cheap eggs come from and how they get to the store. I say cheap eggs, because I don't group the organic and cage free in the same catagory. I just know about the hormone pumped, battery caged, production chickens, that lay way too many eggs for one chicken, in one day. I think people (or at least the ones i sell to) like to know that my chickens eat, drink and run around when ever they feel like. although mine are not organic, they are better than store bought and they are more interesting because they are different shades of brown!

what I love is when people tell me they like the taste of white eggs better than the brown eggs, and that's why they don't eat brown eggs. LMAO

then you have to explain to them that egg color has to do with the breed of chicken it came from, not nutritional value.

but before I got into this addiction with chickens, I didn't know much about the difference in eggs either. I always bought white, mainly because I grew up on them and didn't eat many brown eggs that I knew of. but now give me brown, white, green or blue!! I love them all!!

I really hope you get your 'customer' to realize that it wasn't your eggs and maybe you could throw in the next dozen for free! good luck!

 

[Roy]

I had a customer tell me that my eggs were TOO fresh, never heard of such a thing. Also doubt that it was your eggs...

edited because I can't spell, apparently

 

[sparkles2307]

I also let my eggs "age" for about 3 days before I sell them, so that should let them be closer to store eggs right? Ugh its just frustrating, I spent my entire life on farms, and its like they ask, but dont really want to hear my answer because they get these stupid looks on their faces when I try to explain the colors of the eggs...