Don't be silly that is what guinea fowls are for.
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.
I agree with you about eating eggs from chickens that are just running around. I know the farmer. The eggs taste much better, too.
Don't be silly that is what guinea fowls are for.
[ 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. ]
And we all wondered why Mental Illness seemed to EXPLODE from the late 80’s to the early 2000’s and beyond!
That is one good lookin' mini-dinosaur!
Balut is one of those things you see on amazing race or survivor that make people puke
My Mom would always refuse to eat an egg with the dreaded blood drop in it... I was less picky and gobbled them down :-)
Pointing out that her steak was loaded with blood did not persuade her to eat the eggs..lol
Sam, I have raised egglaying and meat chickens for over 30 years on and off.
Of course you can eat a fertilized egg. There are no little developing chickens in there. fertilized eggs do not develop until the hen is ready to set, or until they are put into a brooder.
There is nothing like fresh chicken eggs. We have 15 hens and a rooster that have a half acre to run around and do chickeny things. In the winter when they slow down we have to supplement with store eggs sometimes. They are almost tasteless to me.
Put a lantern out on the ground, the hens will stay up late and gorge on the bugs the light attracts...
Thanks! I’ll give it a try.
nothing better than watching CHICKEN TV
Oh I was there a bit ago this year. Staying strong though.
I love to do deviled eggs. Learned here how the secret to effortless shelling was to drop the eggs into boiling water.
Besides that the egg whites do have carbs the yolks don't.
LOL
If I were stranded on a desert island and I had to pick only two foods to sustain me, I would have eggs and milk. Both are power packed with nutrients and they are both delicious.
No chocolate???
I think you’re just being a smartass. Note how many replies this thread has received. A lot of FReepers like these threads. When was the last time you posted something that has gotten 50+ replies?
You’re trolling. Why not just ignore these posts if you don’t like the topic? You don’t want to ruin the rest of your reputation, do ya?
You think I am being a smart ass.
I think you are an idiot.
Such is life.
Anyway, I love eggs and by my reckoning I've eaten about 50,000 of them over my lifetime (so far).
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