they tasted like !@@##$$%^

[StupidBird]

Runied, we're all RUINED, i tell ya!

And now we've tasted real chicken meat too, even though it was a year old slow souped rooster.

Mom, my boy said to me just yesterday, why does our hamburger meat taste so different than the stores? And DH won't eat store bought burger meat anymore and neither will I, unless we're out and I can bury it in spicy sauces. We buy a grass fed beef from a coworker every year.

Yup, I'm ruined.

Just wait until we do either meat birds or meat rabbits. omy!

Yes, I also stopped at WH for a fix of grease; I couldn't stomach the eggs without drowning in hot sauce. (note: there's homemade hot sauce brewing in the frig. and sauerkraut)

 

[rrrmamma]

We were at the tail-end of a molt and my girls were hardly laying. 5-6 eggs a day from 20 birds, Of course that was the time we were swamped with visiting family. 5 extra breakfasts and too few eggs. Also the baking and cooking for Thanksgiving. I had to buy store eggs. I used most of them for the baking and cooking, but my DH wouldn't eat them fried or scrambled. Happily now they are all laying again and I have a surplus. I can't eat eggs in a restaurant either. I used to think I had an allergy to eggs because my would get stomach cramps from store eggs. No problem now.

 

[duckinnut]

There have been times where we ALMOST had to buy them, but me I would rather go without than buy them. The sales stream has been steady and sometimes our own supply runs out but a walk to the coop cures that.

I did go for breakfast a few weeks ago to my favorite place as its what their specialty is. Hadn't been there in over a year,back before my girls were laying. All I can say I was truly disappointed,no flavor, no color and just no good. It was probably the same as it always was but having my own fresh eggs to compare to now it was substandard.

 

[teach1rusl]

My girls are either coming out of a molt, coming off of being broody, or not old enough to start laying yet - haven't had a fresh egg laid in almost a month here

We love 'breakfast for dinner' here at our house. Ate my first store bought eggs in years last night for dinner. My scrambled eggs did have 4 tiny d'uccle eggs mixed in, but it wasn't enough to bring much flavor to them. It's going to be at least a month before my little pullets start laying, so I'm hoping that the two hens furtherest recovered from their molts will lay me a few mercy eggs before then...

 

[Ole rooster]

I don't know about dinner breakfast but I love it when the wife make a breakfast for supper. I don't know if I've ever had one in the middle of the day.

I am lucky with the eggs. I have friends with chickens so I can always find one with eggs.

 

[suzettex5]

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Wow, I thought it was just me.... After 2 years on ONLY my hens eggs, I had no choice but to buy store bought (molt and season change left me w/1 egg a day and 5 kids who love eggs!). After eating even a few bites, I would get a stomach ache. Never had that problem before that I remember....

I would rather be 'spoiled' with healthy home grown eggs than ever eat a mass produced egg again. The stomach cramps arent worth it!

 

[teach1rusl]

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LOL - I grew up in WV...guess that must have been far enough north for 'breakfast for dinner.'

 

[Mommy 2 Wee Ones]

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I tell everyone I give my eggs to, to use a butter knife to break the shell because the are so hard. If you squeeze a store bought egg too hard, you will have eggie hands.

Nothing beats fresh home grown eggs!

 

[Mommy 2 Wee Ones]

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I hate to tell you, but cage free/free range only means they can walk around in a giant warehouse. I went on the Egglands Best website, because they were advertising cage free organic eggs. They do not get any outside time, they have to walk around in a giant warehouse, with blowing in fresh air & sucking out the stale air. They still de-beak them, because there are so many birds crammed together & walk in their own poop.

Now Whole Foods Market purchases eggs from pasture raised hens, they get to to spend all day outside in the sunshine, scratching dirt, eating grass & bugs & have a choice of food to eat, and a trailer to lay their eggs in. They are locked up for the night, and are move to a fresh pasture every couple of weeks. If I am forced to buy eggs, I will pay the extra gas & purchase eggs from Whole Foods.

 

[spacecowgirl]

I was afraid of that.

I guess it is a little better than being caged, but still....

Unfortunately I don't have a Wholefoods anywhere near me. Good to know if we ever get one, though. Thanks!