Farm Fresh Eggs- weirded out!!

[TheBigBadWolf]

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.

I totally agree. If most people ever saw the appalling condition laying hens live in, or smelled the atrocious odor inside a commercial chicken house, they would NEVER eat another egg again. As soon as you taste one of your wonderful home grown eggs, I will bet you will never go back to those gross store bought eggs again. Enjoy!!!

 

[DVCLiz]

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.

Excuse me, but you are not in charge of whether I have an opinion or not.

Refusing to eat a fresh egg is nothing like refusing to eat a goat. If someone made fresh goat cheese from the goat's milk and tou refused to eat it but you bought goat cheese from the grocery store and ate that, then you might have a comparable argument.

This is the absolute dumbest thing I have ever heard of on the DIS - OP, are you sure you aren't just making this up to pull our leg?

 

[Cindy B]

This reminds me of my parents neighbors. When we were younger, many of my neighbors raised chickens, steer, pigs and the occasional lamb for eating and eggs.

I remember when 3 new steer came into the pen. Now, being an innocent former city child I asked the neighbor what their names were. First the farmer says they don't have names because well they could get too attached. I said I didn't believe him and then he said there names now were: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.. And sure enough, those were the names of the steer until the slaughter.

Really, it sounds like you can't handle the aspect of the eggs. Farm fresh eggs are really good.. just rinse them off and away you eat. Just separate yourselves from your "pets". I don't mean to say starting calling all the chickens fricassee, rotisseree, fried or whatever, but realize that the chickens are useful and the eggs are what you bought them for.

 

[tiggger1]

several days old by the time it reaches you,

Most eggs from the store are at least 2 weeks old by the time you get them. We have had chickens for about 6 years and the eggs are amazing, the yolks are much more brighter, thicker and rich tasting,. so much better than store eggs. The only thing with them, is because they are so fresh they dont make good hard boiled eggs. you need to wait at least 2 weeks so they are easier to peel.

Yes they will eat their own eggs, it makes their future eggs shells stronger...

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

We raised chickens for years (well, okay my dad did). They are the best.

Funny note, we had neighbors that had moved out to the country from Brooklyn. Umm, they should have read a book before getting chickens. The woman used to throw the eggs on the ground for them because when she collected them every morning they were warm.
My mom had to tell her that they come out of the chicken like that. She thought they came out cold like they do in the carton.

 

[Uuaww]

What I want to know is how we all STARTED eating eggs... I mean think about it.
One day a man is watching a bird and its struggling... I mean really pouring its heart out and he just can't take his eyes off of it. Then all of a sudden this strange round thing comes out. It is white with some goo on it and such and he starts to think? This came out of where? Maybe I should eat it? I mean what was he thinking eating that!

 

[Pixiedust34]

We had an opportunity to buy farm fresh eggs from a farmer for a few months last winter. The eggs were great! I felt better about eating those eggs than eggs from the grocery store because I knew that the farm fresh eggs were organic and that the farmer took good care of his chickens.

 

[MichelleVW]

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

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!!

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.

Call me removed from the family farm and call me dumb but I don't want eggs that come from a chicken in my back yard.

I would love to be a vegetarian but I hate vegetables so I have to eat meat and dairy products....but I don't eat things with faces.

We raise beef cattle on the family farm 2 hours from here and I know where the cows go when they get sold and it makes me sad, but I try not to think about it. They have a happy cow life until they get sold so that makes me feel a little better. If it were up to DH or I to kill them we would never eat meat again!

I have a friend that has a huge farm where they raise turkeys and cows and she won't eat her own cows. She was born and raised on the family farm but won't eat things with faces either.

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.

oh yeah...no way would I be eating any bit of a goat that I had seen a few days before.

 

[Darsa]

I would love to be a vegetarian but I hate vegetables so I have to eat meat and dairy products....but I don't eat things with faces.

I'm not sure I understand... you eat meat but won't eat things with faces?

Personally I would love farm-fresh eggs; we only ever had them when we visited my great aunt and uncle's farm in Vermont and I remember them being SO much better than the eggs "at home" (from the store)... and this was a LONG time ago!

And IMHO, just because someone has the heebie-jeebies about something that came from what is essentially a pet, isn't really a very good reason to call her dumb The thought of having to eat any mushroom gives ME the creeps; seriously, I would rather starve than have to eat mushrooms. I imagine that's pretty dumb to some people too...

 

[MichelleVW]

I'm not sure I understand... you eat meat but won't eat things with faces?

It's not confusing.....I can't eat meat from the cow that I saw grow up from a tiny calf. I can eat meat from the store because that comes from some random cow that I am not personally involved with.

I'm not alone in my thoughts...l know a lot of people that feel this way.

 

[MushyMushy]

What I want to know is how we all STARTED eating eggs... I mean think about it.
One day a man is watching a bird and its struggling... I mean really pouring its heart out and he just can't take his eyes off of it. Then all of a sudden this strange round thing comes out. It is white with some goo on it and such and he starts to think? This came out of where? Maybe I should eat it? I mean what was he thinking eating that!

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks like this. I say that all the time about foods!

And what about mushrooms, considering so many of them are poisonous? Did people have to get sick and/or die to find out which mushrooms were edible?

 

[Mom2Ashli]

We raised chickens for years (well, okay my dad did). They are the best.

Funny note, we had neighbors that had moved out to the country from Brooklyn. Umm, they should have read a book before getting chickens. The woman used to throw the eggs on the ground for them because when she collected them every morning they were warm.
My mom had to tell her that they come out of the chicken like that. She thought they came out cold like they do in the carton.

Now that cracked me up.

What I want to know is how we all STARTED eating eggs... I mean think about it.
One day a man is watching a bird and its struggling... I mean really pouring its heart out and he just can't take his eyes off of it. Then all of a sudden this strange round thing comes out. It is white with some goo on it and such and he starts to think? This came out of where? Maybe I should eat it? I mean what was he thinking eating that!

Makes you wonder doesn't it?

 

[minkydog]

Call me removed from the family farm and call me dumb but I don't want eggs that come from a chicken in my back yard.

I would love to be a vegetarian but I hate vegetables so I have to eat meat and dairy products....but I don't eat things with faces.

"I don't eat things with faces." Perhaps you mean "I won't eat things with faces that I know." Cuz last time i checked Old Bessie had a face.

I get what you're saying though. When I was a young teen my cousins bought a calf to raise for meat. They named it MooMoo and put it in the backyard. We would go over there and hand-feed it hay and grain. sometimes we would wash his back. The day came when MooMoo took that truck to No Return. Except, he *did* return, in paper wrappers. My uncle ended up giving a lot of that meat away because his kids wouldn't touch it. He said all the crying ruined his dinner, anyway. Thus ends the story of MooMoo.

 

[MichelleVW]

"I don't eat things with faces." Perhaps you mean "I won't eat things with faces that I know." Cuz last time i checked Old Bessie had a face.

I get what you're saying though. When I was a young teen my cousins bought a calf to raise for meat. They named it MooMoo and put it in the backyard. We would go over there and hand-feed it hay and grain. sometimes we would wash his back. The day came when MooMoo took that truck to No Return. Except, he *did* return, in paper wrappers. My uncle ended up giving a lot of that meat away because his kids wouldn't touch it. He said all the crying ruined his dinner, anyway. Thus ends the story of MooMoo.

Yep...that's exactly what I mean!!

 

[Darsa]

I can't eat meat from the cow that I saw grow up from a tiny calf. I can eat meat from the store because that comes from some random cow that I am not personally involved with.

I'm not alone in my thoughts...l know a lot of people that feel this way.

Okay, this makes more sense. I'm pretty sure I couldn't eat an animal I personally knew either. I have a niece who had decided to be a vegetarian a while back because she wouldn't "eat things with faces", whether or not she knew them personally. She lasted longer than I thought she would, but she did recently go back to eating meat.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

OP..would it help you to know, that unless the hen is around a rooster, there is no chick inside the egg?

 

[CanBeGrumpy]

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

Actuallly, there is only one "exit" on a chicken, called a cloaca--everything that comes out of a chicken comes out of there, eggs included. I'm pretty sure eggs are cleaned and then coated with an oil before going to the grocery store, so don't worry, your eggs are clean when you get them!

 

[ckay87]

Excuse me, but you are not in charge of whether I have an opinion or not.

Refusing to eat a fresh egg is nothing like refusing to eat a goat. If someone made fresh goat cheese from the goat's milk and tou refused to eat it but you bought goat cheese from the grocery store and ate that, then you might have a comparable argument.

This is the absolute dumbest thing I have ever heard of on the DIS - OP, are you sure you aren't just making this up to pull our leg?

Of course you can have an opinion, but at the same time you should have some manners in the way that you express your opinion. You wouldn't talk that way to someone in real life, don't do it here.

I *get* this thread, I guess. Teacups knows how ridiculous her feelings are and she's kind of poking fun at herself. I do this myself IRL - we all have some silly quirks or phobias that are so off-the-wall that we talk about them with friends and chuckle. Polite people chuckle along with us.

 

[Boo'sMom]

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.

Actually, that's really bad....your sister should use oyster shells for protien in a chickens diet. If they get a "taste" for egg/shells you'll have a decrease in production, as the chickens will destroy the eggs themselves. While it does provide more protein, it's not the most desirable way to improve the shells.

Actuallly, there is only one "exit" on a chicken, called a cloaca--everything that comes out of a chicken comes out of there, eggs included. I'm pretty sure eggs are cleaned and then coated with an oil before going to the grocery store, so don't worry, your eggs are clean when you get them!

"Fresh from the hen" eggs also have a protective coating on the shell when they are laid.

 

[Anne34]

Excuse me, but you are not in charge of whether I have an opinion or not.

Refusing to eat a fresh egg is nothing like refusing to eat a goat. If someone made fresh goat cheese from the goat's milk and tou refused to eat it but you bought goat cheese from the grocery store and ate that, then you might have a comparable argument.

This is the absolute dumbest thing I have ever heard of on the DIS - OP, are you sure you aren't just making this up to pull our leg?

My in-laws have some chickens also. I also refuse to eat the eggs - they don't always refrigerate them right away and they aren't pasturized, etc.....
It totally grosses me out. My husband and son will eat them and they have never been sick, but --- yuck!