My pic of eggs & mini rant...

[ChickiKat]

My neighbors turn down my eggs now, they say they just got some from the store.... I think it is because I don't wash mine... you get them au naturale!!!!! People are so odd sometimes..

 

[featherful]

Oh, but they're so pretty! Around here it's the opposite. People just love marans and EE eggs, but everything else is too boring. They're all the same on the inside! I understand them not wanting banty eggs though, unless you charged less for them.

 

[MassivelyScrambled]

Glad we don't have these issues were we live. Besides you don't eat the shells! The real egg is inside and that's still the same as any other color from a healthy free range chicken.

 

[JodyJo]

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Oh, I love the idea of including a recipe....how fun, mind if I steal the idea....?

 

[whoacowboy]

I was talking to a friend's daughter the other day and she was fascinated that my chickens lay colored eggs, even green ones. She is begging her mom to make her a breakfast with my green eggs. Even the mom was very interested in our Q & A. I hope in some way I've changed her outlook, and maybe her whole families' by showing them, hey, the kid wants colored eggs! Let her have colored eggs!

 

[Amethyste]

Someone at work asked if I could bring in a dozen eggs for them to try. She came in that following Monday and said: "Oh they really tasted good...but the shells were really hard like rocks. We were worried that meant they were old so we got rid of the others and didn't use them."

I was like..... ?!?!?!?!?! they were fresh from the birds within 2 days lol That is how they SHOULD be lol

And then she says: "Oh really? I didn't know that... oh and some of them turned green so we threw them out."

I had told them when I gave them the eggs that they were all different colors too

 

[Capvin]

Those eggs are fantastic looking. Before we began raising chickens and getting eggs (all of our eggs are brown) we would have gladly paid $4.00 per dozen for fresh, home raised eggs. The real problem is that people do not really know where their food comes from. If they could see chickens in a typical commercial laying operation they would probably never eat another store bought egg again. For that matter if they could see a typical chicken farm they probably would never eat chicken again and that goes for most other animals also. I do not sell our eggs. Whern we get a spare dozen we give them to one of our neighbors and they are so happy to get them because they can see how we raise and keep our chickens.

 

[JayneMae]

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hahahahahahahahahaha!!

i just can't believe that! lol!

 

[Darklingstorm]

My hubby's boss buys my eggs all brown, but we are going to slip in a duck egg and see if he notices the flavor difference. I didn't. I currently get a dozen every 2 days. Oh yeah got a recipe that take a whole dozen eggs to make EASY CHEESY FRITTA, its so good.

 

[GA_in_GA]

I have been buying fresh, free ranged eggs from the source for several years. I had always purchased eggs from the farmers market while I was in a large city, then had to buy from the store and always purchased brown, grain-fed, organic eggs. They always seemed fresher than the white eggs to me, yolks had better color, and shells were harder. The way eggs are supposed to be!

When I was a kid, I participated in 4-H Poultry judging. I knew what a good fresh egg was! So maybe that is why I was so picky about the eggs I bought, even when I was off at college.

I still buy eggs from a distant neighbor as our 2 pullets are only beginning to lay. I got the Marans for the dark brown color of their egg shells. And I wanted even fresher eggs than I was able to buy from the neighbor.

Today I had a friend's college age daughter with me when I went to pick up eggs. I bought 2 dozen and she took the carton that had more colorful shells!

Another convert!!!