"Farm Fresh Eggs Are Pooped On" R U Kidding?

[Arcnadius]

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Yes indeed. It happens and that's why I don't eat the shells.

 

[chicmom]

I have friend, and she makes these beautiful cheese cakes that take A TON of eggs, I offered her some fresh ones, and she said "NO WAY! My SIL gave me some fresh eggs and they had blood in them!"

She will never try my eggs........I wish she would, but I'm not the pushy type....

People have their ideas......and sometimes you just can't sway them. LOL

 

[DTRM30]

it really does amaze me - I and I think a lot of it is just mental. I was giving eggs to a friend who worked with my DH - his wife absolutely refused to eat them because they didn't come from the store. One day, he slipped some of our eggs into the store carton, and she ate them and commented on how they tasted better than usual. He then told her "that's becasue they are the fresh eggs, not the store ones" - after that she finally believed him and got past the mental thing she had going.

and yes, my eggs do get some poo on them now and then. They get stepped on, poo'd on - sometimes even have a feather stick to them - you name it. One of my silkies hasn't figured out to use the nest box and lays them on the ground in the pen where I think they play soccer with it before I find it. But, a little warm water just before using them does the trick of washing it all off.

People in general really have become some disconnected it's actually sad. They have no idea where their food really comes from.
I would love to buy beef from the local place near me that processes their own cows, but, unfortunately, it's out of my price range. But I bet it tastes sooo much better !

I hope to process my own meat birds next year - just need to figure out where to keep them in my yard, and find a freezer big enough to keep them after .... small details, I know.

 

[PaulaSB12]

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HOw about this you tube clip of an egg being layed.

 

[Jay262]

I love this post

Makea me think of my mother she will not eat any eggs or birds that she has raised herself or that i raise personally. She wont even taste them. Not due to any connection like some of us think of them as pets i can see her not wanting to eat her own due to that but not mine. She wont even eat the eggs which suprises me the most.
I often say to her mom picture this factory where thes poor birds sit in cages worked like machines laying eggs. I like to think the conditions are sanitary and i know there are laws saying they should be but lets face it thats not always a fact in some of these factories.
Even though the eggs and the birds we raise ourself not only look better when processed factory birds and eggs but in my opnion even taste better but no way can i get her to eat them. I just laugh me and dad often make fun of her a bit about it but i guess its just a frame of mind people get in not just the city folk with this frame of mind.
Doesnt really offend me that she doesnt eat them nor does it when other people dont wanna i figure its there loss let them eat there chemically force growed birds and i will eat my organically grown hand fed breed and taken care of by me animals.

 

[Beekissed]

Well, folks, eggs have come from the same place since chicken was first on Earth, so the whole issue about where storebought eggs come from vs. backyard or farm eggs is pretty moot.

I, too, would hesitate to eat eggs from the typical backyard flock because I wouldn't know if they were using antibiotics for their chickens or not. There are many, many threads on here to verify that many of you folk use antibiotics and chemical dewormers for your chickens. Might as well use storebought eggs and chicken....

I'll eat mine, though, and I don't get offended when others are too ignorant to appreciate a good thing when they see it~there are many on here who won't even eat their own chickens and that, to me, is in the same vein....it's good, it tastes good, you raised it, but you won't eat it.... you'll eat that nasty storebought stuff, though. It's all a mystery.

When I deal with people who are too ignorant to realize when something is good, I just go away being very thankful that I am not afflicted with their level of ignorance and leave it at that. More for me~ and my customers are aplenty!

 

[Marcymom3]

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I have the same confession, Rancher! It's hard to believe that people can be that ignorant. One of my dearest friends said she just couldn't eat the eggs I brought to work for her. All I could think was, "WHAAAAAAAATTTT??"

We have the same approach to aging. While I love the old-timey stuff more than the average person, it is so worth learning how to use the modern things we have now (your examples are perfect)! Keeping up to date on the technology, literature, politics, etc is how you keep your brain functioning, right?

Now if I could just figure out what to do with this knee....

Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Marcy

 

[sheila3935]

My DD has a friend named Mitchell. She gave him some of our eggs. He told her he doesnt like eggs and she said thats ok your wife and kids can eat them. To make a long story short his wife made the eggs and he ended up eating 7 of them for breakfast. He told her that store eggs are so bland that he never liked the taste but getting fresh eggs was wonderful and he wants eggs all the time now. Most people have no idea how good fresh food is cause all they ever buy is from the store.

 

[Tracydr]

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You'd be amazed. So far I have heard from fellow coworkers:

- roosters lay eggs
- hens don't lay eggs without a rooster
- tomatoes grow in the ground
- bees are useless animals that sting. Where does honey come from anyways
- bats are disgusting
-Chickens are disgusting
- where does the prepackeged meat come from anyways? Do they make it out of something that grows on a tree?

My husband and his four kids are from the city, big city. Now, my husband is quite educated and intelligent. He's an engineer, has two Master's degrees and working on his PhDs. His four kids are all college educated.
None of his kids or my husband will eat or even prepare meat with bones, not beef, pork or chicken, except for the occassional ribs. I literally have to debone the Thanksgiving turkey in the kitchen to bring to the table!
My husband doesn't want me to serve him fertilized eggs, or at least doesn't want to know about it. His son, who lives with us, won't eat the eggs because of the chance they may be fertilized. I'm actually very surprised they will eat the our Cornish X but I guess my cooking wins them over. I still can't talk about it, though and they won't be anywhere near on processing days.

 

[Tracydr]

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Yes. Considering how difficult it is to find non-medicated chick starter in my area I'd say the majority of folks use medicated feed, at least for starter. I'm also amazed at the huge amount of chemical wormer usage on BYC. If you follow the guidelines some people post it seems like you'd never get to actually eat the eggs because you worm every three months, repeat in ten days and have to toss eggs for fourteen days after each deworming. I would have expected a larger organic following from this group.
I've dewormed my flock exactly once in 25 years of owning poultry. I had three chickens with a bad reaction to it and I will be very hesitant to dewormer with chemicals again unless it's an absolute necessary.