nervous about eating the eggs?

[arlee453]

I teach childbirth classes and we advocate a well-balance diet for pregnancy that includes 2 eggs PER DAY!

There are 6gm of protein in an egg, and everything you need to build a baby chicken is in there. Physiologically there isn't much difference between a baby chicken and a baby human - the same building blocks are needed.

Plus there are some nutrients (choline, for example) that are in eggs that are not in many other foods readily available.

Eat those eggs!! And home grown eggs are just as 'safe' or much safer than store bought.

Susan

 

[Tuffoldhen]

Never lets an egg go to waste in this house!!...Lots of protein for you being pregnant girl!...

 

[dbjay417]

The one thing we never do is hardboil the eggs. We always prepare our eggs in a way that we can observe the condition of the interior. I hate hardboiled eggs anyways, but it is partly paranoia. The first egg we opened had a bunch of clear spots in the yolk. I dunno if that was the first stages of development or sickness, but thats the only one we've thrown away so far. We've collected well over two dozen since we recieved our first on Jan 1st. We gave our last carton of supermarket eggs to the neighbors. LoL.

 

[CovenantCreek]

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OK glad to know it is not just me that does not get to eat the eggs.

This morning I actually LIED to my kids and told them that the girls have not laid any eggs yet today!

Even though there are three little eggs in the box first thing this morning. I even went as far as hiding them in one of the nesting boxes that the girls do not use and covered them in shavings!!!

I have been wanting to enjoy some of the eggs! I mean geezo I have been waiting for months for them to start laying!!

Sounds like you and Wildsky need more chickens!!!!!

 

[skatcatla]

Crystal, congratulations on your upcoming new family member!

I felt a little odd eating my first egg too. It was almost like I was eating a pet or something. I scrambled the first one too.

After that, it was really easy. I just told myself not to be silly, that's why I got them in the first place!

And ditto the others; I am currently TTC and very cautious about my diet. That's one thing I don't worry about. (just everything else!)

 

[gmc]

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Hi Josie,
Would you care to elaborate on what the signs were from a sick girl. How could you determine the difference between a sick girl and normal. Don't mean to thread-jack the discussion, but I am just curious.

Thanks,
gmc

 

[karu]

I've eaten raw eggs from my chickens

, gave it to my dog too. BTW, I was the 1st one to try

. The only difference between my and my dog's consumption habit is that she wants to eat the shell

and I don't. There is one delicious recipe I remember my grandma

used to make with raw eggs , I will try to make it this weekend.

 

[Wildsky]

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You have NO idea how hard I'm trying - H said NO WAY to a bator when I asked him tonight.... I'll keep working it.... I have my ways and means

I was going to wait for a broody and get some Arucana eggs from Jody... but I would love to get a bator and let the kids SEE the chicks being hatched... EDUCATIONAL!!! (thats my story)

Mind you - we have 8 standard hens and 3 bantams - we're only a family of 4... how many eggs do we NEED?

 

[Josie]

GMC,
My girl was just droopy for a little while, sitting in her favorite spot for longer than usual, nothing that I would have even thought too much about except for the eggs she layed.
The two eggs for those days were as small as her first eggs, about bantam size.
When I cracked the egg open the white was normal, but the yolk was black and it was putrid!

It was gross. After that her eggs were normal and she was back to her peppy self.

 

[silkiechicken]

I wonder if that putrid black yolk was really a sickness, but rather a reproductive accident where some part of the ovary or some other thing got into the egg tract and got treated as if it was a egg. Like one really bad meat spot.