how to convince someone your eggs are OK?

[MrsChickendad]

I have found that many people don't like fertile eggs because they mistakenly believe that the yolk is what becomes the chick, and the blastodisc is the heart. Once I explain that the blastodisc is what becomes the chick and the yolk is it's food, they are somehow all right with it. This may be where they get the idea that all chicks are yellow!

And I have found that poultry eggs all taste the same, as far as those I've tried, anyway.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

I will never understand why people get weirded out by others producing their own food! I know how my animals were treated (spoiled), I know what they ate, I know where the product (eggs, meat, milk) was kept and how it was stored. Why would you get weirded out by that? What did people do 100 years ago?

People are crazy.

 

[SallyF]

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I would LOVE to have eggs with all yolk and no white. Used to have an aunt who would come visit us on the farm. She disliked yolks and I the whites, so we always sat next to each other at breakfast.

 

[journey11]

Might just be because they are bantam eggs. People seem to favor a jumbo egg, brown or otherwise around here. Double yolkers are very popular too. Maybe they are worried about how many small eggs to use for a recipe or something...

 

[faykokoWV]

I had one friend that said she didn't like the texture of fresh eggs, she felt they were "too thick" and "too rich" she was too used to store bought eggs.

I think the rich and thick part is what I like about fresh eggs

 

[canada-goose]

I love the yolks! They're the best part! So far, people REALLY want our eggs unless they buy from somewhere else such as a small farm. Nobody is grossed out by our eggs...yet.

 

[Fuffy]

I know someone who keeps trying to give me eggs that I don't want. This is because of the foul way in which she 'keeps' her birds

The poor things are penned and have water. Sometimes she throws in a little horse grain and they have a crate turned on its side for shelter. And I am SURE they have never been wormed or checked for other parasites!!!!

We had the idea of maybe printing up 'chook note paper': A photo of each bird with maybe her age and what colour egg she lays and her likes and dislikes. You could put this in your egg box. Would also give you a handy place for a note to the neighbour: ' You weren't in - Here are some eggs'

Feel free to borrow the idea

 

[Hopeful Peacock]

I don't have chickens yet and must be very naive beacuse I am shocked people would turn down farm fresh eggs from well cared for hens in favor of factory farmed pale, tasteless eggs! People are, indeed, crazy if they "trust" a factory system more than they trust a more personalized, caring system. Crazy!

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Just tell them to let them age in the fridge for a month or two an they will be what there use to.

 

[wombat]

I was afraid that home raised eggs would taste too "eggy" and that my kids would reject them. The opposite has turned out to be true. They've helped raise chicks, they tend the chickens, they collect and eat the eggs. They don't like eating "yucky pale eggs" away from home!

The only complaint has been the shells. My daughter has been able to crack open her own eggs and scramble them since before she turned three. She's seven, and sometimes she has trouble cleanly opening home raised eggs because the shells are so much stronger! Well, that and she claims home raised eggs take longer to scramble because the whites are thicker, but she likes whisking eggs anyway.