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[Mollie333]

As a supporter of the BHWT, i do not buy caged eggs, and i don't eat them. So i have twelve free range eggs freshly from my own hens, but my brother still goes out and buys 12 caged eggs, and refused to use my eggs.

Any of your family not appreciate the hens, or is it just my strange brother. ?

[Roobaloo]

That would make me so mad.

 

Mum still buys eggs...but that's usually because she's in the supermarket and knows she needs eggs but doesn't know when she'll next see me or how many i'll have left ...we live about half a mile away!!

 

When she does buy them, she buys free-ranged thankfully.

[Mercedes55]

Well that does sound weird yes. I know when we first got our ex batts my OH and myself felt weird about eating their eggs, so we were giving them away to my mum and my son. They both love them so much that they have stopped buying even free range eggs from the shop. I can't understand someone being offered free eggs and then going out and spending good money on eggs that you know are from hens that are being kept in cages though

[Mollie333]

I'm so mad.

'I like them cause there bigger and better'

'there from cages'

'so..?'

[Roobaloo]

I'm so mad.

'I like them cause there bigger and better'

'there from cages'

'so..?'

 

Personally....I'd smack him if he was my brother!!!

[Mollie333]

I did. We have never got on, family forum, i wont go into deep conversation about how much i 'dislike' him.

[sage]

Sounds like hes doing it to wind you up.

It's just with some people

 

Sage

[CatieB]

Mollie I'm afraid you just have to accept that some people are odd, or have different ill informed views and some are just ignorant.

 

My sis has lots of girls (10 I think) and ducks yet my mum who lives just down the road from her won't eat her FREE eggs... she buys the cheapies from the supermarket.. in other words caged. You can not reason with her or get any reasoned explaination. She says she just doesn't like the thought of the eggs from my sis

 

I think you just have to make yourself immune to such stupid views and ignore it otherwise I'm afraid its a waste of your time and energy

 

Plus given that its your brother he probably does do it to wind you up

[welovemarmite]

I know what you mean. I sell my eggs at work and one women complains every time i take some in that they are too expensive, thats fine, she doesnt have to buy them if she doesnt want to. She says they are far cheaper in the supermarket. Well it depends what you buy. Mine are cheaper than freerange organics from the supermarket. But obviously more pricey than the cheapy caged ones. I wouldnt mind but she is not short of a few pennies, so although she moans about the cost, she obviously has no conscience. If she doesnt want to buy them i just wish she would shut up instead of broadcasting her views everytime, she always makes sure i dont hear, but i am told what she says!

[Lavenders_Blue]

That's a bit off, Marmite. As you say, this woman doesn't have to buy your eggs so why the big problem with the price you are asking for them. Clearly the people who ARE buying them are happy with the price you are charging!

 

Mollie, I agree that your brother is probably trying to wind you up. I'm not generally a spiteful person, but in this instance I feel that revenge might be a dish best served cold. Why not sneak one of his delightful caged eggs out of the box, keep it somewhere nice and warm for a few weeks so it goes rotten and putrid inside and then shove it back in a future box? Clearly I'm not trying to advocate that you actually give your brother food poisoning (hmm, on second thoughts maybe this isn't such a great idea), but hopefully the foul stench of opening a rotten egg might put him off buying caged eggs in the future.

[Purplemaniacs]

I am pleased to say I have converted my DD.

 

She is a young single mum with two young girls and she now buys free-range eggs. She has my spares so only buys eggs when I am low on eggs.

 

I am pleased that she thinks about where the food comes from even though money is very tight.

 

Mollie it does not sound like you will convert your brother, at least you are doing your bit I can't understand anyone turning down lovely fresh eggs, friends who I give eggs to are always thrilled.

 

Chrissie

 

[Krysia]

MAD is only 1 word that springs to mind!

 

Before I left work to be a stay at home mum and run my own cake business (So I use loads of eggs!) I always had loads spare (a direct result of morehens disease! ) I used ot give them to mum and dad and my brother, take them to friends and sell then at work. People couldn't get enough of them!

 

I have never come across anyone who wouldnt eat them. Plenty who wont pay for free range but non that wouldnt eat them!

 

does he have shares in a battery farm?

[Mollie333]

but hopefully the foul stench of opening a rotten egg might put him off buying caged eggs in the future.

[Lewis]

but hopefully the foul stench of opening a rotten egg might put him off buying caged eggs in the future.

:lol:

[Mollie333]

He'd probably start another argument about how chickens eggs are disgusting if i do that.

[LuckyChickenLover-]

When we were making cake in my Food lesson I went around making sure that all my friends bought free range eggs. They all thought I was slightly mad for checking but at least I think that all my endless talking about chickens got through to them because they all bought free range

 

So i have twelve free range eggs freshly from my own hens, but my brother still goes out and buys 12 caged eggs, and refused to use my eggs.

Any of your family not appreciate the hens, or is it just my strange brother. ?

It is a shame that some people think that shop bought eggs are in some way better . I asked my friend if she wanted any eggs from my hens, her mum's response: "Err... It's okay, I'll buy my eggs from a supermarket" Some people! At least she buys free range eggs...

[Mollie333]

Revenge!

I'm getting my and 3 ex batts in Decemeber. HA.

[greyhoundgirl]

Some people are just odd. If they knew how old 'fresh' supermarket eggs were maybe they'd chage there mind about buying even free rage eggs from there. Before we got hens I always bought straight from the farm where you could see the hens outside.

I'd have thought that now the battery eggs are labled 'from caged birds' most people would think twice about buying them. Maybe they need to put photos of the battery birds in situ on the boxes. Rather that some smiling farmer; who probably isn't a farmer anyway!

 

I'd drop your brother round some literature from BWT and then at lease he can choose to be informed.