There are varying levels of my countryness....

[SilkieChickenLover336]

this was the best post i have ever read

 

[BusyBlonde]

When I read this, it really took me back - lol - and to now! When I was a kid (I'm 45 now) we raised chickens for eggs & meat, pigs, a couple beef cattle, rabbits, and had a couple huge gardens. I'm the oldest of 6 kids, raised in a single-income family, and we just thought that's what you had to do. I SWORE that I wouldn't garden, or raise livestock, ever again. Now - my husband and I have a huge garden, just thinned our flock to 14 chickens, bought an incubator, and are thinking about acquiring a beef cow and a couple goats.

I love the flavor of fresh eggs. To me, there is nothing better. And the fresh chicken - WOW! A lot of my friends don't understand how I can raise them, then eat them - but it's how I grew up. I like to know where my food comes from. I know it was raised humanely, without hormones, and the flavor is so much better.

Glad you're enjoying your chickens and their eggs!

 

[Life is Good!]

Just experienced this last weekend....

I like our girls' eggs. So do my sons. Don't think twice about it. Had a huge group of friends here for a camp-in (can't say a camp-out if the tent is pitched in your own backyard!). Knew we didn't have enough eggs. Borrowed some from a neighbor with EE's (we have Black Javas, a brown egg). One of the kids wouldn't eat breakfast. Of course, being awoken at 5:15am by Roaster our Rooster, well, I guessed the kid was a bit sleepy. Kid said he "didn't like eggs". Nope, he didn't like knowing WHERE his eggs came from! Mom told me later he eats white eggs several times a week. Kid kept asking why the eggs weren't white (they were green, brown and blue) - if they tasted different - why a chick wouldn't form from them - 10,000 questions about eggs as they were scrambled up. But kid wanted WHITE eggs. Not brown. Not blue and certainly NOT green!

Yes, we quoted Sam-I-am - "I like green eggs and ham!" - as we had a pot of the best breakfast ever - scrambled eggs, bacon cooked and crumbled and hash browns - all mixed together with pepperjack cheese....yum! He wouldn't eat it, not a taste. Wrinkled his nose and didn't eat with us. His loss! We ate his portion too!!!

 

[manybirds]

just posting so i rember to come back and read the whole thing later

 

[Nonny]

That's so much like my first fresh egg experience! I've had fresh eggs from the farmers markets before so was no stranger to the orange yolks or the slightest of poo smears or bits of straw stuck to the eggs, but when I had to cook the first one from our own girls I had to fight a moment of queasiness at eating something that one of my own pets pushed out of it's butt.

I very quickly got over it.

 

[zzGypsy]

had this experience with lots of folks... we have chicikens and ducks, and the duck eggs are aMAZing! love the chicken eggs, but love the duck eggs SO much more.
but... it freaks lots of folks out.
still, I understand... in the spring we'll have guinea eggs and turkey eggs as well as chicken, duck and goose eggs. and I'm thinking "hmmm turkey eggs, I dunno...."
but I'll eat some and see if I like them.

have thought about raising rabbits for meat, but there's that thought in my head... "hmmm... I dunno...."

ah well, just seems to be part of the process for me.

glad you got past the first one. it's all just tasty from here!