Posted on 09/17/2021 3:53:23 PM PDT by SamAdams76
I love this thread. Please keep the posts up. I am learning.
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?
That is great!
I would like to have it as a refrigerator magnet.
Bug fed chicken eggs; you haven’t eaten real eggs until you eat them.
A well done, Godly dissertation on the efficacy of eating scrambled eggs for breakfast at the messhall, Sir Knight.
Semper Fi, grunt.
“Homegrown food isn’t about cost effective.”
If one is preparing for emergencies or have a tight budget and wish to reduce the food bill, it is.
I strive to get maximum return for investment of time and money. An example is my vegetable garden. As my goal is to raise as much food as possible in the given amount of area the garden takes to help sustain my family during bad times, I plant that which produces well, vegetables that can be preserved in various manners for long shelf life.
Corn is an example of a vegetable that doesn’t give me enough return. A block of corn takes up a good size area if one wants enough for a few meals. An area that could be used for bush beans, rutabaga, beets, tomatoes and such. Veggies that would produce more in the same area and can be preserved for sometime for later use. I’d be better off buying canned corn at the local DG for $.50 a can then to raise my own. And that canned corn has a shelf life of years.
For protein, I’m further ahead buying inexpensive pinto beans in bulk and going down to the river to fish instead of raising chickens.
Your priority is different then mine as you stress quality and taste and that’s fine. My priority is to produce as much as possible within the confines of what land I have and my physical and financial ability.
Negatory, good buddy.
Chicks in eggs don't grow that fast. It takes 21 days for the chicks to grow in the eggs. As long as you harvest the eggs within a week of being fertilized and put it into the fridge, you'll be fine.
I've eaten fertilized duck eggs. They were harvested within a day or so of being laid. I put it into the fridge and there was no embryo.
Candle the eggs before cracking and if you don't see blood spots, it's fine to eat.
Varies by breed and individual chicken disposition. For both the rooster and the hens.
I maintain about a dozen to a eighteen hens of various types and age and a single, but very assertive rooster. Every egg is fertile, though most eggs are refrigerated the evening of, or the morning after they are laid.
Twice a year I allow a brooding chicken to sit on a clutch of eggs for chicks, though with the level of effort I put into keeping up the bug eating brood, most don’t make it to egg laying age. I replace the rooster every third year or so, by allowing natural selection by challenges from younger rivals.
Nature at the zenith...... the eggs are a great perk.
I keep one rooster per 12-15 hens. When the rooster gets to the aggressive age, we hatch out a few of the eggs and raise another rooster. The older goes to the freezer.
I usually only incubate 5-10 at a time and only a few are quitters so most are getting fertilized.
There’s nothing different about fertilized eggs, they look and taste the same. They do not incubate unless under a hen or in an incubator.
Did you ever watch ducks play football with a frog? Even better.
I trained my Red Heeler, to herd the chickens and watch over them. I only had 1/2 an acre for them to roam in, but they laid amazing eggs. I had an ornery rooster, and the dog learned that he only had to “kennel him” and the “girls” would follow to bed. It kept the critters from killing my ladies. I only lost one, and that was the trigger to the Dog guarding chicken experiment.
Free advice:
Store bought commercialized eggs which have ‘vegetarian-fed’ on the package are almost always fed SOY.
Furthermore, don’t buy into the omega-3 BS for eggs: It’s just marketing. Omega-3 is the biggest marketing/label scam of the century.
And if you refuse to believe that, I bet that you believe that you get ample omega-3 from flax or chia seed, too.
Re we need more Capons anyway. We’ve got enough Capons, chickens and chickenshits in Congress and the White House as it is.
Well yes; they’re overdue for the smoker.
Love duck eggs.
The eggs I've been getting directly from local farms are pretty incredible however, which was the point of this post. You can definitely tell the difference in the taste and there is a much richer nutritional profile. Probably because the small farm chickens run around the yard all day eating bugs and whatever else they can find including their own feces. That doesn't bother me.
“When I was in nursing school in the 60s.”
Yes the federal government’s “low fat, low cholesterol” diet advise was wrong. For 5 decades they gave us wrong dietary guidelines.
I have used that fact as argument for not allowing them to run our health care.
Exactly. Even though soy/corn free local farm eggs can go for $7/dozen in this state, I’ve justified the almost $5/dozen expense for the same reasons, health being top...but just one of many.
Sugar is apparently worse for your cholesterol and blood fat levels as the liver will convert it into lipids.
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