pullet eggs

[WA23]

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I will always remember my Mother never eating or serving an egg that she did not take the chalaza out (some people call it the spindle). I am not sure why to this day. She always said it was not a part of the egg to eat. (I secretly think she thinks its the umm... roosters part to fertilize the egg. She was always so cryptic about it)

It was funny watching her chase around all those parts in a bowl of like 12 eggs. She did get good at it though.

 

[patandchickens]

Is it at all possible that, since the guy in question comes from a commercial poultry farming family, the family tradition might relate to chicks/pullets being fed things that you're not sure of whether they might show up in the earliest eggs? Antibiotics, etcetera. I have no idea how many yrs such things have been usual practice, so maybe this is not a relevant possibility, dunno.

Pat, having just got second pullet egg from my 18.5 wk old pecky Golden Campine today and will most certainly eat it

 

[porteryork]

It is amazing to me to find out about their food issues. I am a caterer and have a coffee shop and gourmet food store. I serve heirloom tomatoes that are so good but people will say they would like the red tomatoes not the color ones. I also had a woman tell me she like her eggs to come from the store.....so where does she think the store gets them?

 

[gritsar]

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I enjoyed the story speckled. I have a feeling what it might boil down to in this case is that there were so many eggs between his mom's chickens and his grandma's chickens (three generations lived on the farm at that time) that there was plenty of larger eggs without adding in the pullet eggs. So the pullet eggs were fed to the animals. By the way, both his mom and grandma kept "secret" backyard chickens. It's very much against company policy for a commercial chicken farmer or anyone that works for the large poultry processors to keep backyard chickens. His mom didn't order hers from any hatchery, they were simply day olds meant to be broilers that she diverted from their intended fate.

 

[cherig22]

I am about six dozen eggs into my chickens, and I STILL cannot eat them with the yellow runny. Has to be cooked all the way through.

I am sure I will grow out of this, lol. I used to eat eggs a guy at work sold from his chooks, I just have to get used to my own.

I suppose it is the 'stickiness' of the yolks on these free range eggs. Even the cats have a problem licking them off the plate!

Cheri :|

 

[the simple life]

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I will always remember my Mother never eating or serving an egg that she did not take the chalaza out (some people call it the spindle). I am not sure why to this day. She always said it was not a part of the egg to eat. (I secretly think she thinks its the umm... roosters part to fertilize the egg. She was always so cryptic about it)

It was funny watching her chase around all those parts in a bowl of like 12 eggs. She did get good at it though.

Can you elaborate on this please? I know I should get this, and I pretty much do, but am trying to figure out what it looked like that she was trying to dig out of the egg.
There is the yoke, the white and sometimes that bullseye from the fertilized egg and then what was the other thing? Or is it the bullseye we are talking about.
I have heard the word chalaza, just never tried to figure out what it was.
Now you have me curious.

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

I have people waiting to get pullet/bantam sized eggs from me when mine start to lay LOL they want them for their kids. They call them "kid sized eggs" Taste the same and are CUTE to boot! LOL (a woman thing)

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

Can you elaborate on this please? I know I should get this, and I pretty much do, but am trying to figure out what it looked like that she was trying to dig out of the egg.
There is the yoke, the white and sometimes that bullseye from the fertilized egg and then what was the other thing? Or is it the bullseye we are talking about.
I have heard the word chalaza, just never tried to figure out what it was.
Now you have me curious.

This is the little white swirly looking thing attached to the yolk.

ETA: Also the longer the egg ages, the more the tissue eventually breaks down. This is why older eggs have a runny or less pronounced yolk. Also, the chalaza is the agent that makes some of the egg white stick to the yolk when an egg yolk is removed manually.​

 

[SpottedCrow]

OMG, Cyn, what a funny story!!!

 

[speckledhen]