What’s In A Name?

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Come on over... I cook lots of all!

Would love too, but seriously: Have you ever eaten something with kale, beans and duck-eggs? Duck eggs are really bad when they come back out, but eating those together with beans or kale is a gross violation of the Geneva Contracts…

 

[Mimi13]

Would love too, but seriously: Have you ever eaten something with kale, beans and duck-eggs? Duck eggs are really bad when they come back out, but eating those together with beans or kale is a gross violation of the Geneva Contracts…

I think I need a little more in-depth explanation about the duck eggs!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I think I need a little more in-depth explanation about the duck eggs!

Have you never eaten a duck-egg?

Chicken eggs contain a lot of Sulphur, that's why rotten eggs smell like rotten eggs just smell. Now if you eat chicken eggs together with kale, beans or onions or other stuff that creates a lot of gas in your digestion system you will be an unpleasant company…
However, duck eggs not only contain Sulphur, but are also rich in Selenium, the element that sits right under Sulphur in the periodic system of elements. Now the thing is that elements in the same column of the PSE have similar properties and often those properties enhance when you go down one row. For example Sodium is very reactive with water, the next element in that column is Potassium which explodes with water.
Sulphur compounds stink, go down one row to Selenium and the equivalent Selenium compound's smell will make your nose detach your face, grow legs and run away.
Now eat some boiled Duck-eggs with some fresh Onions and wait for two to three hours…

 

[Mimi13]

Have you never eaten a duck-egg?

Chicken eggs contain a lot of Sulphur, that's why rotten eggs smell like rotten eggs just smell. Now if you eat chicken eggs together with kale, beans or onions or other stuff that creates a lot of gas in your digestion system you will be an unpleasant company…
However, duck eggs not only contain Sulphur, but are also rich in Selenium, the element that sits right under Sulphur in the periodic system of elements. Now the thing is that elements in the same column of the PSE have similar properties and often those properties enhance when you go down one row. For example Sodium is very reactive with water, the next element in that column is Potassium which explodes with water.
Sulphur compounds stink, go down one row to Selenium and the equivalent Selenium compound's smell will make your nose detach your face, grow legs and run away.
Now eat some boiled Duck-eggs with some fresh Onions and wait for two to three hours…

Hillbilly, you have just scared the holy sh!t outta me! WHAT in the world did you just explain to me? I remember studying the periodic table in high school/college, but I don’t think I’ve ever had an explanation of the PT like I just got from you. That was excellent and I want to know why you are so familiar with all the elements? I am really impressed.

So, these duck eggs (that I already have a minor problem with their ‘marina smell’), do they produce this “selenium/sulfur smell” every time you eat them, regardless what they’re eaten with, or only if they’re eaten with onions? And the sodium/potassium thing! Just how do you know all this?

Do I need to worry if I eat a duck egg?

 

[duluthralphie]

Hillbilly, you have just scared the holy sh!t outta me! WHAT in the world did you just explain to me? I remember studying the periodic table in high school/college, but I don’t think I’ve ever had an explanation of the PT like I just got from you. That was excellent and I want to know why you are so familiar with all the elements? I am really impressed.

So, these duck eggs (that I already have a minor problem with their ‘marina smell’), do they produce this “selenium/sulfur smell” every time you eat them, regardless what they’re eaten with, or only if they’re eaten with onions? And the sodium/potassium thing! Just how do you know all this?

Do I need to worry if I eat a duck egg?

Uh huh

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Hillbilly, you have just scared the holy sh!t outta me! WHAT in the world did you just explain to me? I remember studying the periodic table in high school/college, but I don’t think I’ve ever had an explanation of the PT like I just got from you. That was excellent and I want to know why you are so familiar with all the elements? I am really impressed.

So, these duck eggs (that I already have a minor problem with their ‘marina smell’), do they produce this “selenium/sulfur smell” every time you eat them, regardless what they’re eaten with, or only if they’re eaten with onions? And the sodium/potassium thing! Just how do you know all this?

Do I need to worry if I eat a duck egg?

I have to confess that i am an addict!
I am addicted to knowledge. I suck up knowledge like a sponge.
As soon as i could i started to read books. Tons of books, i literally read through the cities whole public library - except for the romantic section, real boys don't read that… ;-)
Then when i finally got chemistry at the 11th grade at school it was a total disappointment because i knew more about chemistry than the teacher. He felt threatened by me, bullied and harassed me and gave me unjustified bad grades.

Anyways if a topic hit's me i jump all in, head first and suck it all up, last time this happens the trigger were six tiny yellow duckling fluffbutts.

Marina smell? - The eggs from my ducks smell pretty normal, just like eggs. What in the world are you feeding your duckies? - Oh wait, this spring my wife told me some of the eggs had a weird muddy aftertaste and she blamed the enormous amount of toads, toad-eggs and tadpoles the ducks ate for it.

So to eggs in general: My wife as well as i have experienced that eggs (store bought chicken eggs!) make our waste much more smellier than other food items. Now imagine you combine that bad smell with foods that produce a lot of gas in your digestive system, like beans, onions or kale and you turn into a walking stink-bomb.
With duck-eggs, containing much more Selenium than Chicken eggs (see here) comes a much stronger (not to say horrific) smell, because Selenium compounds are much smellier that their equivalents with Sulphur. Combine that with Beans, Onions or Kale and your farts can be used for pest control… or worse…

 

[Mimi13]

I have to confess that i am an addict!
I am addicted to knowledge. I suck up knowledge like a sponge.
As soon as i could i started to read books. Tons of books, i literally read through the cities whole public library - except for the romantic section, real boys don't read that… ;-)
Then when i finally got chemistry at the 11th grade at school it was a total disappointment because i knew more about chemistry than the teacher. He felt threatened by me, bullied and harassed me and gave me unjustified bad grades.

Anyways if a topic hit's me i jump all in, head first and suck it all up, last time this happens the trigger were six tiny yellow duckling fluffbutts.

Marina smell? - The eggs from my ducks smell pretty normal, just like eggs. What in the world are you feeding your duckies? - Oh wait, this spring my wife told me some of the eggs had a weird muddy aftertaste and she blamed the enormous amount of toads, toad-eggs and tadpoles the ducks ate for it.

So to eggs in general: My wife as well as i have experienced that eggs (store bought chicken eggs!) make our waste much more smellier than other food items. Now imagine you combine that bad smell with foods that produce a lot of gas in your digestive system, like beans, onions or kale and you turn into a walking stink-bomb.
With duck-eggs, containing much more Selenium than Chicken eggs (see here) comes a much stronger (not to say horrific) smell, because Selenium compounds are much smellier that their equivalents with Sulphur. Combine that with Beans, Onions or Kale and your farts can be used for pest control… or worse…

You amaze me! Really!!!

I only have chicken eggs to compare my duck eggs to. The chicken eggs are perfectly clean and have zero smells (unless they’ve been laid in poop.) My duck eggs, on the other hand, are always dirty, I guess from poop, and maybe the poop is what gives the eggs a marina or algae smell. The little area where the ducks make their nest and lay is bedded with straw and very clean. They don’t lay their eggs where they sleep. Every morning I’ve got three big old duck eggs laying in a sweet little nest and they will ALL have gunk on them, poopy gunk I suppose. I guessed that’s the way everyone’s duck eggs are. Or am I wrong?

 

[duluthralphie]

You amaze me! Really!!!

I only have chicken eggs to compare my duck eggs to. The chicken eggs are perfectly clean and have zero smells (unless they’ve been laid in poop.) My duck eggs, on the other hand, are always dirty, I guess from poop, and maybe the poop is what gives the eggs a marina or algae smell. The little area where the ducks make their nest and lay is bedded with straw and very clean. They don’t lay their eggs where they sleep. Every morning I’ve got three big old duck eggs laying in a sweet little nest and they will ALL have gunk on them, poopy gunk I suppose. I guessed that’s the way everyone’s duck eggs are. Or am I wrong?

The magic 8 ball says, “maybe”.

 

[Mimi13]

I have to confess that i am an addict!
I am addicted to knowledge. I suck up knowledge like a sponge.
As soon as i could i started to read books. Tons of books, i literally read through the cities whole public library - except for the romantic section, real boys don't read that… ;-)
Then when i finally got chemistry at the 11th grade at school it was a total disappointment because i knew more about chemistry than the teacher. He felt threatened by me, bullied and harassed me and gave me unjustified bad grades.

Anyways if a topic hit's me i jump all in, head first and suck it all up, last time this happens the trigger were six tiny yellow duckling fluffbutts.

Marina smell? - The eggs from my ducks smell pretty normal, just like eggs. What in the world are you feeding your duckies? - Oh wait, this spring my wife told me some of the eggs had a weird muddy aftertaste and she blamed the enormous amount of toads, toad-eggs and tadpoles the ducks ate for it.

So to eggs in general: My wife as well as i have experienced that eggs (store bought chicken eggs!) make our waste much more smellier than other food items. Now imagine you combine that bad smell with foods that produce a lot of gas in your digestive system, like beans, onions or kale and you turn into a walking stink-bomb.
With duck-eggs, containing much more Selenium than Chicken eggs (see here) comes a much stronger (not to say horrific) smell, because Selenium compounds are much smellier that their equivalents with Sulphur. Combine that with Beans, Onions or Kale and your farts can be used for pest control… or worse…

Also, that article was very interesting.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

You amaze me! Really!!!

I only have chicken eggs to compare my duck eggs to. The chicken eggs are perfectly clean and have zero smells (unless they’ve been laid in poop.) My duck eggs, on the other hand, are always dirty, I guess from poop, and maybe the poop is what gives the eggs a marina or algae smell. The little area where the ducks make their nest and lay is bedded with straw and very clean. They don’t lay their eggs where they sleep. Every morning I’ve got three big old duck eggs laying in a sweet little nest and they will ALL have gunk on them, poopy gunk I suppose. I guessed that’s the way everyone’s duck eggs are. Or am I wrong?

You have no idea how some of the duck eggs here look like when i collect them!
The dux sometimes seem to roll them through the thickest mud on purpose!
Yet they look and taste fine after i wash them clean.
At the moment they behave like well trained cats: All eggs are arranged in two to three neat and clean nests. - Buried in inches of chewed through straw and down feathers...