Farm Fresh Eggs- weirded out!!

[teacups]

My 10 YO daughter wanted to raise some chicks for eggs. So naturally we got all the books, learned everything and took the plunge. Well these hens started laying eggs last week. While my daughter thinks its the coolest thing in the world, I CAN NOT bring myself to use them! I am no farmer. I could never raise an animal for meat. Now, I am expected to eat something that plops out of the butt of a pet?

Tell me something comforting about this whole thing please!
I KNOW they are healthy.
I KNOW they are free from chemicals, hormones and antibiotics.
I KNOW they are clean because I clean them.
I KNOW they are fresh becaue they are still warm most of the time.

 

[Cruisin]

The only thing I can say that might help is that once you taste them you will probably have no problem eating them.

Generally farm fresh eggs taste really good.

 

[MomofKatie]

Do you eat eggs from the grocery store? They also came out of a chicken's butt- just not a chicken you have personally met.

 

[teacups]

just not a chicken you have personally met.

I think this is part of the problem LOL!

 

[tonilea]

This is a sad commentary on how far removed we, as a society, are from the family farm.

 

[ilovejack02]

Oh they are the best thing ever!!! Much better than Walmart eggs ( lol )
My inlaws raise hens for eggs. I love getting eggs from them.
That being said, we have a "neighborhood chicken" Not sure where she came from , but everyone feeds her. She laid an egg at my house the other day .. LOL I refused to eat it because I dont know what people have been feeding her.

YEAH I KNOW.. Im a freak lol!

 

[AprilShowers]

I agree with a pp. Just eat them! You won't believe the difference in taste. Plus, you know about WHEN that egg plopped out of the chickens but. You know just how fresh it is!

 

[minkydog]

LOL, I know what you mean. My sister raises chickens and I have to just close my eyes and dig in. They *are* delicious.

And if you really want to be grossed out, here's a tip from my sister: Scroll if you dare...
Smack an egg or two on the henhouse floor--the chickens will eat it up, shell and all. It makes their egg shells harder, resists cracking. I told you. Gross.

 

[karibritt01]

Farm fresh eggs are so delicious! We have a friend who raised chickens for hatching, and every so often he gives us eggs. Stick them in an egg carton from the store after you clean them if it makes you feel any better.

 

[teacups]

This is a sad commentary on how far removed we, as a society, are from the family farm.

I fully agree!
We had talked about wanting to be able to live off the land. Well, you know, in case of emergency, not on a regular basis. We have berries, fruit trees, garden, we have horses (not to eat!) and I thought eggs would round that out nicely. But something about the eggs is not setting well.

I agree with the fact that we have lost touch with our past. And while that is sad, my mom tells of a time when her granny went outside, grabbed a rooster by the neck, twirled it around until it was broken, chopped it off and then let him run around the yard a while before dressing him for dinner. Umm..... I can not be THAT in touch with my history. Not when there are perfectly good rotissourie chickens at Costco that I never met.

 

[teacups]

LOL, I know what you mean. My sister raises chickens and I have to just close my eyes and dig in. They *are* delicious.

And if you really want to be grossed out, here's a tip from my sister: Scroll if you dare...
Smack an egg or two on the henhouse floor--the chickens will eat it up, shell and all. It makes their egg shells harder, resists cracking. I told you. Gross.

I just threw up a little bit.

 

[ilovejack02]

I just threw up a little bit.

The protein is really really good for the chickens.
Goodness the things we know lol.

 

[wdwiala]

Sell them to your friends. We have a lady who sells them to people that she knows at church.

 

[DVCLiz]

teacups, are you really, truly saying you will not eat a fresh egg laid by your own chicken? Or are you just being a little silly on a DIS thread? Because if you truly are grossed out, how do you think the other eggs you have eaten all your life get to your frying pan?

And a chicken egg comes out of a chicken's butt the same way your children came out of yours - that is, there's no "butt" involved.

Get over this already and enjoy the fresh eggs!!

 

[minkydog]

I just threw up a little bit.

Toldja

 

[Imzadi]

And a chicken egg comes out of a chicken's butt the same way your children came out of yours - that is, there's no "butt" involved.

I agree. I don't know anything about a chicken's anatomy, but I think it comes out of a different place.

 

[OK!]

LOL, I know what you mean. My sister raises chickens and I have to just close my eyes and dig in. They *are* delicious.

And if you really want to be grossed out, here's a tip from my sister: Scroll if you dare...
Smack an egg or two on the henhouse floor--the chickens will eat it up, shell and all. It makes their egg shells harder, resists cracking. I told you. Gross.

I found that out when I accidentally dropped one of several eggs I got out of a semi-hidden nest at my parents' house (once they figure out that you've found their nest, they move it. Every day is like an Easter egg hunt there!) One hen and a couple of roosters just SWARMED on the broken egg. I couldn't believe it.

And @ the OP--farm fresh eggs really are like night and day compared to store-bought eggs. They're SO much better!

 

[teacups]

teacups, are you really, truly saying you will not eat a fresh egg laid by your own chicken? Or are you just being a little silly on a DIS thread? Because if you truly are grossed out, how do you think the other eggs you have eaten all your life get to your frying pan?

And a chicken egg comes out of a chicken's butt the same way your children came out of yours - that is, there's no "butt" involved.

Get over this already and enjoy the fresh eggs!!

I have yet to cook with or eat one of these eggs.
I actually made banana bread yesterday and used one of the store bought eggs instead. I had made a bunch of excuses why we needed to throw the entire first batch of eggs away. Dont scream at me, but I threw out like 10 eggs becasue I was freaked out about them. Yesterday we started really keeping them. I'm not making any more excuses becasue my daughter really wants to do this so I am being a good mom and eating them as soon as we have enough for a complete breakfast. That will likely be tomorrow. GADS.
If you dont hear from me ever again after tomorrow you know I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE EGGS!!!

When my daughter found the first egg she FREAKED OUT! She came running in the house saying she was a mommy and I was a grandma. Maybe thats what did it. (She's mommy to all of our animals.)

 

[DVCLiz]

I have yet to cook with or eat one of these eggs.
I actually made banana bread yesterday and used one of the store bought eggs instead. I had made a bunch of excuses why we needed to throw the entire first batch of eggs away. Dont scream at me, but I threw out like 10 eggs becasue I was freaked out about them. Yesterday we started really keeping them. I'm not making any more excuses becasue my daughter really wants to do this so I am being a good mom and eating them as soon as we have enough for a complete breakfast. That will likely be tomorrow. GADS.
If you dont hear from me ever again after tomorrow you know I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE EGGS!!!

When my daughter found the first egg she FREAKED OUT! She came running in the house saying she was a mommy and I was a grandma. Maybe thats what did it. (She's mommy to all of our animals.)

teacuops, this is absurd!!! So you will eat an egg you buy at the grocery store that comes from a chicken that is cooped (haha!) up literally all its life, living in its own filth, laying an egg that is processed and several days old by the time it reaches you, with who knows what kind of sanitation and refrigeration - and yet a brand new egg laid by your own chicken that you can either eat that minute or put in your own clean refrigerator grosses you out.

That's the dumbest thing I ever heard of.

 

[kami2199]

teacuops, this is absurd!!! So you will eat an egg you buy at the grocery store that comes from a chicken that is cooped (haha!) up literally all its life, living in its own filth, laying an egg that is processed and several days old by the time it reaches you, with who knows what kind of sanitation and refrigeration - and yet a brand new egg laid by your own chicken that you can either eat that minute or put in your own clean refrigerator grosses you out.

That's the dumbest thing I ever heard of.

Geez, lay off already. OP - I'd be the exact same way. The other day we went to a goat roast of all things - refused to eat a bite, not because I thought I wouldn't like goat, but because they showed me the goat they were roasting a few days prior.