My mom waste my eggs!

[FarmerGrant011]

So today, I was giving my mom eggs because she wanted to cook pancakes. Some of the first couple of eggs had blood ( I found a hidden nest today...) and so she just threw them away! Yall should have SEEN my face

I was like, MOM the chickens can STILL eat it!! lol. And she threw away five eggs, (about three days worth of eggs), then I had to stop her for the egg shells... I corrected her so that now she knows not to waste them. She was like, "I have probably done that to like 20 eggs."

 

[CluckyJay]

Bad Mommy! Bad!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

If I see a blood spot I just remove it and keep cooking. I have read that blood spots can occur in eggs even when they are not fertilized.

I hope your mom knows that a hen sometimes sits on the nest for 45 minutes or more to prepare for laying (I read this somewhere and that is what I see with my own eyes). I tell my children that the hen worked an hour for that egg they are eating.

 

[HollyBird24]

If you found a hidden nest, why would you collect the eggs for eating anyways??

 

[mom'sfolly]

You collect the eggs for eating, because unless it was either really old, or there was a broody sitting on it, the eggs were perfectly fine.

I have several hens who like "privacy" and hide their nests. They never go broody, they never sit, and I always start looking when my green egg count goes down. It will often take me a few days to find the nest. The eggs are fine.

 

[FarmerGrant011]

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Um because when its 32 degrees outside, I think it is basically a natural fridge outside.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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There is a "float test" you can do for old eggs to see if they are still good. Search BYC for float test to find it if interested.

 

[Tiramisu]

I know how you feel. Even though my boyfriend knows how little the birds lay he gets picky with eggs. Even now, at most the eggs we have around here are 2 weeks at most, but they still need to be cracked in a seperate bowl..bla bla. Lol, it irritates me because I just like to crack it into whatever is being made, if it was older or questionable i would do it seperately.
He also wants to throw ones away that my have a hairline crack or something and I have to tell him no, we can cook it up for them to eat, feed is not cheap!

Also, bloodspots are just from a blood vessel that burst while the egg was forming, I think. Yes. "They’re caused by the rupture of a blood vessel on the yolk surface when it’s being formed or by a similar accident in the wall of the oviduct. "

 

[what's kickin' chicken]

nobody ever thinks about blood when it's a big old steak....it has blood all in it ...people just call it "juicy" you "cook" the blood "out" of it... lol I don't like the looks of a blood spot either,but when you think about it .... you "cook" a lot of bloody things....

 

[HollyBird24]

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Um because when its 32 degrees outside, I think it is basically a natural fridge outside.

Not if a broody has been sitting on them....