you cant eat the first eggs?

[rosyposyosy]

is this just a cherishable thing or like a scientific you'll die if you eat the first egg?

 

[Rooster01]

You can eat the first egg. Some people don't because its the first one laid and they want to keep it. The only differance between the first egg and the last egg a chicken lays is its size.

 

[ChickyGal]

Hi, I think that if your feeding chick starter/chick grower that you are suppose to stop feeding it and wait 2 weeks before you eat the eggs. I certainly could be wrong but this is what I've always heard. It's medicated and thats why we aren't suppose to eat the eggs. So my plan is to get my first egg and then immediately switch over to layer mash or pellets, wait the 2 weeks and then I'll eat the eggs. I'm sure there will be someone out there that knows for sure.

 

[mudhen]

I never heard of not eating the first egg(s).

I did, and I'm still here.

Seriously though, how in the world does one keep an egg?

When my girls turned 18 weeks, I switched them over to a layer mash feed mix. I figured it would be better for them instead of waiting until they were laying.

 

[justusnak]

Not eat the first egg??? Ohhhh, in MY opinion...its the BEST egg. Just because I waited soooooo long to get them. LOL

 

[silkiechicken]

I think it depends on the type of medicated feed because I don't think them eating chick starter and you eating the egg is going to have any problem. I eat them.. even if the hens got into the grower pen and gobbled up all the medicated feed like candy...

To save eggs you can be normal and blow them out. Or be weird like me and just set them on a shelf for a few years and let them dry out. Have a whole bunch of saved eggs that have dried out. They sway around on the table now when you set them down . None have blew up on me yet. Just make sure they don't stink. Haven't had a stinky one yet either.

 

[mudhen]

Eggs blow up!?? EWWW, for real?

 

[wendy]

we ate our first egg me and my family are still kicking

, but we bought ours at four months old and they have never had there food changed. we went to the same place to buy the feed the guy used that was selling them

 

[Frozen Feathers]

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Yeah my hens do that, too I had to kick one of my EE's out of the chick pen. Somehow she managed to squeeze her wide self in there and was chasing all the chicks away from the feed. They also like to get in the goats feed and that's medicated with Cocci prevention, of course the goats try to get into the chickens feed as well. I guess stolen food taste better.

We haven't croaked yet from eating the eggs.

lol

Mudhen~yes eggs can explode. I know from personal experience. We found a bunch of eggs in the garage that one the hens had laid and when I picked them up one burst and green gook went everywhere! Nasty, and stinky!!! Worse then rotten egg smell.

 

[mudhen]

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