Yeah, you wash it off before you use it, but you leave it au natural until then.
ps: I saved one for you...
Where do you keep your eggs?
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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
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Just wondering, have you ever tried Rocky Mountain Oysters?
For years, I thought they were seafood.
Mary Stetler
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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.
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.Just wondering, have you ever tried Rocky Mountain Oysters?
For years, I thought they were seafood.
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.
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.
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Marie Mallory
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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
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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.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.
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
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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.
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
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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.
Well, the most recent eggs I got last Monday were a little "further along" than I like. I cracked a couple for dinner last night and one of them was looking back at me. I've been eating fresh eggs since I moved here over 15 years ago and that's the first time that's happened to me.
I may go with Egg Beaters for a while. *shudders*
I may go with Egg Beaters for a while. *shudders*
Mary Stetler
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A very Jaunty egg!Yeah, you wash it off before you use it, but you leave it au natural until then.
ps: I saved one for you...
Ed Delabama
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Good morning to all- Our eggs mostly stay in the henhouse until I pick them up in the evening, and then they go into the fridge. Usually they are saved up in cartons until the carton is full and then either our daughter- a teacher- takes them to school where she is VERY popular with staff, or we use them. Our neighbors get eggs from us quite often.
And once you eat some farm-fresh eggs, you'll never be happy with store-bought eggs again- just sayin'.
you all be safe and keep well- Ed
And once you eat some farm-fresh eggs, you'll never be happy with store-bought eggs again- just sayin'.
you all be safe and keep well- Ed
I don't know for how many decades I had been eating store-bought eggs. I moved to this rural area in 2010 and a friend gave me a dozen fresh eggs. When I cracked the first one, I could smell "egg." It was noticeable. They are so good.
I may have bought one or two dozen store eggs in the past 16 years when hens have been molting and I've run out.
Marie Miller
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At the going rate of $9 a dozen and the amount I need for baking it is store bought here.
I get them for $4/dozen most times. Still more expensive than the grocery store. But now I'm concerned that the ones I got are far from "fresh."
For the curious, I got this off of the web:
The development of a chicken embryo occurs over 20 to 21 days, with key stages including the formation of the heart and vascular system by the second day, limb buds appearing by the third day, and the chick hatching at the end of the incubation period. Notable changes include the development of organs and body structures, leading to a fully formed chick ready to emerge from the egg.
So maybe the eggs weren't all that old. That one may have only been 5 or so days old. My friend said her neighbor kept these in the fridge, which is different than how I usually get them.
The development of a chicken embryo occurs over 20 to 21 days, with key stages including the formation of the heart and vascular system by the second day, limb buds appearing by the third day, and the chick hatching at the end of the incubation period. Notable changes include the development of organs and body structures, leading to a fully formed chick ready to emerge from the egg.
So maybe the eggs weren't all that old. That one may have only been 5 or so days old. My friend said her neighbor kept these in the fridge, which is different than how I usually get them.
My understanding is that once they have been washed, they need to be refrigerated, and the ones you buy in the store have been washed.