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I am curious as to why you don't use the eggs for human consumption. Are there just too many when the hens are laying well, or do you prefer "store bought"
My dog doesn't particularly like dry dog food and the only way I can get her to eat it before the chickens do, is if I break some eggs on top of her food. Most of the time, I feed her raw meat rather then dog food - but even before I started that she prefered leftovers to dog food. She came to us with that bad trait and since she has always had chickens around her, I decided it was preferable to do whatever it takes to get her to eat her dogfood, rather than feed chickens dog food all the time. Dog food is more expensive, pound per pound, than layer feed.
I don't eat many eggs at all, and I prefer that they not be fertilized. I normally keep the layer flock inaccessible to the roosters. Lately tho, since I'm not hatching, I've just let them run together. Because they're fertile, I don't want them for the table, and since I don't have them separated, I don't want them to hatch. So, I feed them to the dogs or toss them.
My wife bought eggs for the holidays from the store for the first time in a long time. She bought eggs at the store on the same day that I spent over a hundred bucks on chicken feed. Mama ain't happy 'bout that.
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I have to admit that I don't give any thought as to whether the egg is fertilized, as I use it for baking, scrambled eggs or otherwise. When I first began cooking - my mother taught me to break each egg into a small dish before adding it to my ingredients. The one time I got into a hurry, many years ago, the 17th "store bought" egg was rotten and I had to make a flying trip to the convenience store to buy more eggs so I could make breakfast for my guests. I haven't broken eggs directly into the rest of the ingredients since then, so it is easy to pull an egg that has a "meat spot" which isn't a fertility issue but rather a broken blood vessel when the hen laid the egg.
I am curious as to why you don't use the eggs for human consumption. Are there just too many when the hens are laying well, or do you prefer "store bought"
My dog doesn't particularly like dry dog food and the only way I can get her to eat it before the chickens do, is if I break some eggs on top of her food. Most of the time, I feed her raw meat rather then dog food - but even before I started that she prefered leftovers to dog food. She came to us with that bad trait and since she has always had chickens around her, I decided it was preferable to do whatever it takes to get her to eat her dogfood, rather than feed chickens dog food all the time. Dog food is more expensive, pound per pound, than layer feed.
I don't eat many eggs at all, and I prefer that they not be fertilized. I normally keep the layer flock inaccessible to the roosters. Lately tho, since I'm not hatching, I've just let them run together. Because they're fertile, I don't want them for the table, and since I don't have them separated, I don't want them to hatch. So, I feed them to the dogs or toss them.
My wife bought eggs for the holidays from the store for the first time in a long time. She bought eggs at the store on the same day that I spent over a hundred bucks on chicken feed. Mama ain't happy 'bout that.
-Stimp-
I have to admit that I don't give any thought as to whether the egg is fertilized, as I use it for baking, scrambled eggs or otherwise. When I first began cooking - my mother taught me to break each egg into a small dish before adding it to my ingredients. The one time I got into a hurry, many years ago, the 17th "store bought" egg was rotten and I had to make a flying trip to the convenience store to buy more eggs so I could make breakfast for my guests. I haven't broken eggs directly into the rest of the ingredients since then, so it is easy to pull an egg that has a "meat spot" which isn't a fertility issue but rather a broken blood vessel when the hen laid the egg.
