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.
” And seeing chicks at Tractor Supply stirs up the “crazy chicken lady” in me, sort of like crazy cat lady.”
LOL! When I saw the chicks this spring at Tractor Supply, I really wanted to take some home even though I had nothing set up for them.
Mama looks all clucked up…..
“nothing better than watching CHICKEN TV”
Watching multicolored chickens foraging for food is entertaining!
But I've been converted.
I used to always see those roadside "farm-fresh" eggs signs on the backroads with usually an honor system way of paying. You push your money into a jar and take your eggs.
Finally I decided to do it and was pleasantly surprised by how much better they tasted. You also have a harder shell so you need to really tap those eggs to get the shell open.
I will never go back go supermarket eggs.
My local farmers market carries such eggs
Free range farm eggs are better though by miles.
AND, you don’t need to refrigerate them!
How many roosters to chickens and how many of the eggs get fertilized?
I think I saw Andrew Zimmern eat one once.
Not for me…
Now I’m curious, I’m gonna have to search out some free range eggs.
You are correct ... no need to refrigerate them until you wash them.
Set your chickens free! (Gilbert Shelton fans may remember that.)
I love making and eating deviled eggs. My biggest problem has ALWAYS been peeling them.
I make them three ways-
Mild
Spicy
Weaponized🥵
It’s also easier to shell a week old egg than a very fresh egg.
Who are you to question a layer that identifies as a rooster!?
The fresh eggs will sink to the bottom.
If it floats to the top - don't eat it! Unless you are poaching it.
“Kerrygold butter”
Heaven right there.
True... You are better off leaving them in the fridge to dehydrate a week or two if you are going to hard boil them though. Peeling farm fresh hard boiled eggs is a nightmare. There are some chemistry and physics tricks you can use but just the time in the fridge and they are easy peasy to peel and no funny business pulling out of old text books. Quality is hardly effected and the peeled eggs are whole. They dont dehydrate as fast un-refrigerated.
Homegrown food isn’t about cost effective.
It’s about growing food that is better than what can be grown for profit. As the OP explained, these chickens get freedom to roam, eat bugs and even do some hanky panky. This will improve the nutrient profile and reduce negative things like stress hormones.
As for me, I pick my tomatoes when so ripe that they bruise if sit on a counter for a day or so. You can’t sell commercially at that ripeness.
My plants are grown with exotic minerals from the entire world. Bat and bird guanos, volcanic rocks, mineral deposits, kelps, etc. The taste is unbeatable and I’ll bet nutrition is too.
“Kerrygold butter”
Great butter. Been using it for years.
Try using clarified/rendered duck fat some time to fry potatoes, ie hash browns for breakfast. You’ll be amazed at the taste.
Cute chicken. We have Cream Legbar. Ours are in a predator proof coop but we let them out in the fenced area. They eat every bug and the weeds. We are spoiled.
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