Posted on 09/17/2021 3:53:23 PM PDT by SamAdams76
I've been eating about three eggs a day on average for decades now. My cholesterol profile is perfect (well under 200) and even though I approach my 60s (scary), I have never once had a prescription drug.
People like to say "don't eat eggs or only eat egg whites or you will get too much cholesterol" but they are clueless.
Your human body (and I presume only humans are reading this) will make far more cholesterol than you will get from eggs each day in the absence of dietary cholesterol. So you are better off eating your eggs.
Now most supermarket eggs, they advertise that the hens that lay them are "free range" and all that other stuff but reality is that they typically are cooped up in cages or have maybe a 68 inch square space to "run" around in which is basically the size of an Apple iPad.
Now that really sucks.
I like my hens to run around in all kinds of open space and have access to peck the ground and eat grasses, bugs, and all that other stuff. Their eggs have a clearer egg white and a more yellowish yolk. You fry that up in a little Kerrygold butter each morning, sunnyside up, or over easy and you got yourself a host of vitamins including a bunch of Vitamin D.
Now the roosters can really screw this situation up. They come on to the hens and suddenly those eggs you were about to have for breakfast become fertilized and little chickens are now in these eggs and we cannot, and should not, be eating those eggs.
But I suppose that is necessary from time to time or otherwise we would not have the unfertilized eggs to eat. Those chickens must have the ability to sometimes reproduce instead of just feeding us our breakfast.
So don’t get a rooster.
We need more capons anyway.
I eat 3 soft boiled eggs every day for breakfast. Filling, tasty, protein filled and low calorie. Makes up for the side of bacon I have with it.
I think it’s crazy to eat the eggs whites without the yolks. The yolks are the healthiest part of the egg.
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And the tastiest part of the egg.
I shall.
My chickens gorge themselves on the little black flies swarming the piles of horse manure.
There is a brand called happy eggs. Hens roam around on 8 acres. The difference in the look of the eggs is striking. I have never seen a yolk like that.
I would love to have free range chickens and the coyotes, hawks and raccoons would love even more for me to do so.
When I was in nursing school in the 60s, my nutrition professor, whose book is the best I’ve ever read stated that females needed 53-55 grams (not mgs) of fat each day to prevent breakdown of the fatty lining that protects nerves and muscles, and helps brain message conduction, etc. while males needed 56-59 gms. At that time the FDA was saying that butter, eggs and other great fats (bacon, etc.) were bad for you...and other such nonsense. This is still ingrained in peoples’ heads to some degree. My cholesterol levels are high but my arteries are clear and the tests always state that my numbers are due to hereditary genetic makeup and not to diet. I’m not worried about my numbers.
those eggs are a delicacy in the Philippines and are known as Balut. Can be duck or chicken eggs — here’s a link to whet your appetite:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/balut-egg
“As egg a day will enhance your stay in the PI — suck balut!”
Fertilized eggs, unless kept warm, do not start growing chicks.
Had a neighbor in 2010 with two pet hens that laid eggs everyday. He didn’t eat eggs so I would set empty egg crate on the fence every sunday and he would set put it back full every Saturday. Didn’t buy eggs again until I moved in 2015.
They don't have little chickens in them unless incubated or a hen sits on them. Perfectly safe to eat.
I've got one hen left. Hawks got the rest but she's a survivor. I quit feeding her months ago when she became the last one, assuming she'd be gone soon. Still here and still laying an egg every days without being fed one bit of commercial feed. She only eats what she can forage for. I need to get some fertilized eggs from the neighbor and lock her in the coop because she does have a tendency to go broody and will set on a half a dozen eggs or more.
Roosters tend to protect the hens which is why it's good to have one.
Get a nmr lipo profile
While I like to raise chickens and under other circumstances, I’d have a very small flock, it’s been my experience that raising chickens for eggs isn’t cost effective . Not when I can gets eggs at a local gas station for $1.00 a dozen or $1.85 at a nearby Dollar General.
Having said that, I would have a few birds again if I could but I’d look at it as a hobby. A hobby I was willing to put time and effort into with the side benefit of getting eggs.
This is different than having a large garden and small orchard which supplies me and my wife with a large quantity of food, saves us money and as I enjoy working it, has the side benefit of being an enjoyable pastime.
I eat nothing but Vital Farms pastured, organic eggs.
144 sq ft of pasture per hen, rotated weekly.
Crazy expensive.
I would raise my own if I had the space and it was allowed.
I have excellent cholesterol numbers too...with crestor.
Turd pecking chickens are the absolute best...meat or eggs!
If you encourage the hens to lay eggs in their enclosure (instead of, say, behind the tool shed) and check for new-laid eggs every day, fertilized eggs may at the very most have a little blood spot in them. And if that’s too gross for you, you can feed em to the dog.
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