By all means...eat them. they aren't chicks, they only have the potential to be chicks, under the right conditions. Once you do eat them, you will not want to eat store bought eggs.
I've never had a fresh egg before, especially not my pets egg....
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Go visit a commercial egg farm (if the owners will let you near) and you'll never eat a commercial egg at home ever again... Or watch the documentary "Food Inc"
You're not alone at all. It's the product of our modern society that Americans are so divorced from their food source that they get creeped out when seeing it. I personally went through the same thing, even though back in the day I grew up on a farm.
Just 15 years in the city during my teenaged years and young adulthood was enough to make me stare at my chickens' first egg and go "Man, this is weird".
But I got over it and ate the egg
. It was soooo good! I like to think part of the awesome taste comes from the lack of misery that you find in store eggs. I hate hate hate how commercial hens are treated, and I'm SO proud to not take part in that practice anymore.
Congrats on your new delicious eggs!
Just 15 years in the city during my teenaged years and young adulthood was enough to make me stare at my chickens' first egg and go "Man, this is weird".
But I got over it and ate the egg
Congrats on your new delicious eggs!
If you would go ahead and eat one or two while you still have the store bought to compare you'll get over the weirdness real quick and understand what everyone is saying about store bought being inferior. Just think of the egg as the cuddles your dog or cat would give you. All that love wrapped up in a neat little package. Love that you can actually eat.
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The Trader Joe's eggs say something like "fertilized eggs" on the carton ... if you want them to hatch, you need to get ones with the farthest out expiration date.
The Trader Joe's eggs say something like "fertilized eggs" on the carton ... if you want them to hatch, you need to get ones with the farthest out expiration date.
You will be 180 degees in the opposite direction once you start eating them. You will never want a store bought egg again! I have been getting eggs now for almost a year and have not eaten a store egg or gone out for breakfast since. I used to love going out for breakfast right after a cold mornings hunt,but somehow it feels like I would be cheating on my chickens.
Here's a short and sweet video on "organic store eggs". Those are what I used to buy before I started with my own chickens.
I was freaked out about eating our first egg because fresh out of the vent eggs are very.....inconsistent. The proteins in the egg are actually intact so you get watery and thicker areas in the egg white. I had never seen that before. I later discovered that this is actually a good thing. We have a friend who enjoys making egg noodles and those intact proteins make all the difference in the pasta. I got over it very quickly and now I prefer them. I know what is in them. We don't use pesticides in our yard....our chickens get left over food and other treats.... fresh water. I look at it as a form of recycling. I can recycle my leftover mexican take out through my chickens and turn them into fresh eggs
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I was freaked out about eating our first egg because fresh out of the vent eggs are very.....inconsistent. The proteins in the egg are actually intact so you get watery and thicker areas in the egg white. I had never seen that before. I later discovered that this is actually a good thing. We have a friend who enjoys making egg noodles and those intact proteins make all the difference in the pasta. I got over it very quickly and now I prefer them. I know what is in them. We don't use pesticides in our yard....our chickens get left over food and other treats.... fresh water. I look at it as a form of recycling. I can recycle my leftover mexican take out through my chickens and turn them into fresh eggs
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My young son felt a little weird about it too when his chickens first started laying. But he tried them and now he won't eat store eggs.
My mother was over here yesterday and went out to the barn to see the hens. I handed her a beautiful, white, freshly laid egg from my brown leghorn. Still warm from the nest. I told her to take it home and try it. She refused. She said she just can't eat something when she's just seen the bird that laid it!!
I asked her where on earth she thought her store eggs came from and her answer was "Well but I don't see them or see them lay it."!!
My mother was over here yesterday and went out to the barn to see the hens. I handed her a beautiful, white, freshly laid egg from my brown leghorn. Still warm from the nest. I told her to take it home and try it. She refused. She said she just can't eat something when she's just seen the bird that laid it!!
You know, some people just can't eat their own eggs. I have a friend that has a laying flock, and she supplies her whole family with eggs--her mom and sisters and others, but she cannot eat an egg her hens have layed!
She's never eaten a single fresh egg.
I think it's sort of a phobia.....
She's never eaten a single fresh egg.
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