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

[Avalon1984]

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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.

That is really too bad. I always take great comfort in knowing where my food comes from. Well, that was until yesterday when the gas company came out to mark our gas line and we found otu the gas line is going straight through my garden that I have been rototilling for 4 years now. I feel so lucky now.

 

[yinepu]

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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.

i refuse to use medicated starter unless i am absolutely forced to (have had to use 1 bag in the past year since the feed store was out of regular starter and we go through a lot of chicken feed).. I have never dewormed any of our birds.. never saw a need to (have had poultry for 51 years).
When I was a kid growing up my mother refused to buy "store bought" chickens or eggs.. she said the eggs tasted bad and that all store bought chicken smelled like snake meat (she hated snakes with a passion)..

 

[RaZ]

My neighbor won't eat my eggs because they "Come from a chicken's butt". So I asked her if she eats the thanksgiving stuffing. Of course she said she does. I replied, "stuffing comes out of the turkey's butt".
She is no longer talking to me.

 

[Kuntry Klucker]

Yea, I know some people just cannot eat something unless it has been sprayed to bleach before being sold.
I just figure more for me.

It is their loss, they are missing out on not only a really good egg like you cannot
get in the stores and not to mention so much healthier. Don't be offended, they just don't get it.

 

[ChickenPeep]

You should show them the undercover videos that were taken at Sparboe farms and let them choose themselves!

By the way, did anyone see the news about Sparboe farms? GROSS!! They had rodents everywhere, dead chickens still in their cages, and they torture them! No wonder why McDonalds isn't using thier eggs anymore! Sheesh.

 

[Zinnia-Hen]

Like the second verse of my avatar says.

And a few days ago, some kid who sat near me in class asked if eggs were a dairy product. What?... O.O

 

[TheHalfWayCoop]

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My family is like this too, I'm actually surprised that my husband would eat our eggs, he's really weird about everything, he was really freaked out when I bought duck eggs at the farmer's market last year, until I made them into omlets without him knowing and he LOVED them and will now voluntarily eat them

My parents and my aunt will not only not EAT any of our eggs, my dad can't even bring himself to TOUCH one

due to it's high germ content

He can't touch our chickens either

They too weren't sure if a chicken could lay an egg without a rooster, and thought that an egg would start developing as soon as it was layed regardless of if it was brought in/put in the fridge and were too concerned that they'd crack open a chick

My kids love our eggs and the people at work ask for them all the time. We don't get many so we have a list

But I have to admit people's ignorance to where their food comes from and how it is raised and processed drives me a little bit mental, and I'm prone to soapbox-pox because I just feel like I'm so right and they are so wrong (shhhh don't tell DH I admitted that) and the really sad part to me is that my parents are competely aware of how their food is likely processed, know it's wrong, but choose not to acknowledge it and support local food like outs. DH says just to be thankful I know I'm doing the right thing, but it just doesn't seem like enough (I also suffer from 'my way or the highway' apparently...)

 

[CYGChickies]

I start with one bag of medicated and when they eat that--about a week--I start nonmedicated. I just wanted to get them a head start because they were hatchery chicks so I was paranoid--plus someone had just sold me rabbits dying of cocci! My turkeys have always been on nonmedicated and I think I might skip the medicated chick starter when my birds have their own babies since I know they're not passing it on. Never had to worm but if I did I'd use ACV and cayenne for the turkeys if they get Blackhead--which I doubt they will unless I'm totally wrong about my land/area. None of my chickens have had cocci and none of my turkeys, guineas or rabbits--since I saved one of the sick three. Maybe if I was desperate to save them but just for worming I'd stick to ACV and be stubborn. I plan to charge $2 a dozen for my eggs; I didn't think that was unreasonable. Everyone I've talked to WANTS the fresh eggs and can't wait for the girls to lay. Some are a little wigged out by the concept of meat rabbits but most people around here appreciate "farm fresh".

CYG

 

[RaZ]

I've been charging $3 per dozen and a couple of people said I should charge more.

My birds have never had any medicated food or any treatment other than leftovers. In fact, I've been eating more fruits and vegetables just so I have leftovers for the hens. One of the reasons I got chickens in the first place was for insect control in my yard. I haven't used a pesticide or herbicide in over 8 years. I made a little sign to go with my eggs that says "yesterdays bug and worms are todays eggs, enjoy".

I think there is a word for people who refuse to be educated...

 

[Hens_And_Chicks]

I never expected so many funny responses - thanks everyone... it's just hard to believe that people will choose ignorance over education and think that if something comes from the store they don't have to consider where it came from. I actually found the video of the chicken laying the egg very educational... proof that the oviduct is clearly separate from the poop chute!