Where do you keep your eggs?

[John Brunner]

I would like washed anything that comes out of a chicken's butt.

Yeah, you wash it off before you use it, but you leave it au natural until then.

ps: I saved one for you...

 

[John Brunner]

Chickens are omnivores @John Brunner just like pigs (and humans). Chickens will even eat meat scraps and fat with gusto. We never feed ours anything chicken or poultry-related however. They eat just about anything they can tear apart...even the occasional mouse or vole if they can catch it. If there is anyone nearby who raises ducks, or geese, try waterfowl eggs for pastries or cakes. The albumin in waterfowl eggs is thicker and will give anything using beaten egg whites a much better texture. Chicken eggs are great for routine use, but Angel Food Cake from duck or goose eggs is magnificent IMHO.

I knew duck eggs were superior for pastries, but did not know the reason why. To my knowledge, I've never had them. I have had baby quail eggs.

 

[Tony Nathanson]

I would like washed anything that comes out of a chicken's butt.

Just wondering, have you ever tried Rocky Mountain Oysters?
For years, I thought they were seafood.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Where do I keep my eggs? If they are from the store, they are washed and have to be kept in the refrigerator. If they are my chicken eggs, I keep them on the counter and wherever. Sometimes, I forget some are in my pocket as I come home from the farm. Sometimes that has proven to be a big mistake.

 

[John Brunner]

Just wondering, have you ever tried Rocky Mountain Oysters?
For years, I thought they were seafood.

I wonder how many here have tried them. I have not. I consider myself to be pretty food adventurous, but that might be a bridge too far for me, if for no other reason than empathy for my fellow male critter.

 

[Ken Anderson]

In my house, as a kid, eggs weren't a premium food. Between the chickens, the bantam hens, and the ducks, we had more eggs than we could use, so when my brother (the one who recently died) and I got into an egg fight one morning while collecting the eggs, and threw all of them at one another, Mom just laughed.

The banties were flyers, and lived on the second floor of one of our outbuildings, a level that would be an attic if it were a house, and they were more aggressive than the chickens were. Going up to the second floor to collect their eggs, they were likely to attack. As a young child, I was afraid of the banties.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I knew duck eggs were superior for pastries, but did not know the reason why. To my knowledge, I've never had them. I have had baby quail eggs.

John we used to have all kinds of chics and ducks, we gave neighbor the duck eggs, she said she fed them to her teen sons.

 

[Tony Nathanson]

I knew duck eggs were superior for pastries, but did not know the reason why. To my knowledge, I've never had them. I have had baby quail eggs.

I got a big surprise when I was at a horse-boarding place with a friend. A horse pooped & I couldn't believe my eyes when a chicken ran up to the pile & started eating some of it - as if it was gourmet dining.
Talk about recycling!

 

[John Brunner]

I got a big surprise when I was at a horse-boarding place with a friend. A horse pooped & I couldn't believe my eyes when a chicken ran up to the pile & started eating some of it - as if it was gourmet dining.
Talk about recycling!

I found two things on the web about this behaviour:

1-Chickens eat horse manure because it contains insects, seeds, and other nutrients they find appealing.

2-Chickens can do much to aid and support health on your homestead by eating the bad bugs, larvae and parasites out of the manure. This stops the bad bugs from reproducing and possibly making your animals or pasture sick.

But #2 sounds like it would be aged manure, not fresh.

Still sounds disgusting.

 

[Krystal Shay]

I keep my eggs in the carton in the refrigerator. If I buy some from the farmers market, I do the same because they are washed and buffed to shine, so it seems. Folks here at the markets have to have an egg license to sell to the public, I believe I was told.

I use to be able to get eggs from a farmer that we knew that had chickens to where I could go pick the eggs myself, if I wanted. Those eggs were beautiful colored eggs. They were pretty darn clean eggs too because the chicks laid the eggs in clean straw. I wanted to bring them home and put them in a nice wire basket to admire on my table. But… I couldn’t get past the thought of a tiny speck poop that may have been stuck on them. So I washed them and put the eggs in the refrigerator.

 

[Don Alaska]

I found two things on the web about this behaviour:

1-Chickens eat horse manure because it contains insects, seeds, and other nutrients they find appealing.

2-Chickens can do much to aid and support health on your homestead by eating the bad bugs, larvae and parasites out of the manure. This stops the bad bugs from reproducing and possibly making your animals or pasture sick.

But #2 sounds like it would be aged manure, not fresh.

Still sounds disgusting.

I think it is called Staged Pasturing or something like that. Horses (or cows but horses are better since they don't digest everything), pigs, and poultry (usually chickens as they are best) are pastured together to make the most of feed and grass and keep the parasites down as well. Sometimes sheep and goats are in there as well.

Gathering eggs is terrible though, so meat breeds of poultry are preferred.