I know this is an old thread. I found it searching for something else, and I just HAD to put my 2 cents in.......
When I was a little girl, I had a LOT of Farmer relatives. My maternal Grandmother (RIP Grammy) was from Southwest MO and had 13 brothers and sisters, most of them farmers, you know, chickens, cows, pigs, crops, etc. Most all of what they ate came right off the farm. We would visit every summer. I refused to eat the eggs, drink the milk, bacon, any meat...you get the picture. It tasted "funny" I ate a lot of bread til I found out they made it with eggs! After all, I was from the big city. We got our food from the A & P, not our backyards!
Back in those days, you ate what was put in front of you or you didn't eat. It goes without saying that I went hungry a lot.
As an adult, however, with a much more sophisticated
palette, and since my first farm fresh egg, I couldn't nor wouldn't eat another store bought egg. On the rare occasion I go out for breakfast, I have waffles. No need for that at all any more now that my ladies are on a roll!!
My next big adventure (maybe next year
) will be a milk cow and maybe a pig......
I agree with everything said here....Don't waste your precious jewels (or breath) on folks who can't or won't appreciate it!
BTW, my best friend since high school is still in the Chicagoland area. I, of course, told her about my chickens and all the research I had been doing and promised her I would send her some when they started laying. That is, until I made the fatal mistake of telling her that 2 of them turned out to be roos and the part they play. Her first reaction was to say that she probably wouldn't be interested in "liquid chickens"
She's my BEST friend...I'll get her to come 'round!
