xScrunchee Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 I'm feeling a little frustrated at the moment and was wondering if I'm just being harsh or whether other people are like this........ My OH refuses to eat the eggs laid by our hens. He finds it repulsive and says that he is going to buy his own eggs from the shop. Everyone who has tried the eggs comment on how nice they are but he has only tried them once and tells me that they have no flavour and the little flavour they do have is not nice. He keeps telling me that he finds the thought of eating the eggs disgusting and is not going to eat them again!! Now, is he just being a moron (I suspect this is the case ) or do any other people find the thought of eating their own hens eggs gross?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jools Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Grounds for divorce I think Seriously, the only time I have a problem eating my bantams' eggs is when I've just hatched babies. So on 18th June precisely, I will go off them for a while ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 It's a bit strange considering he is buying eggs which have come from a hen. Maybe he will get used to it, especially if he was forced to look after them a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 I have to say I felt a bit weird about eating our first eggs - but I soon got over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 I have to say the first time we tried our girls eggs was a little off putting I had saved 2 and we had bacon and egg sandwiches. I think it was that we weren't used to the taste of a real egg and the yolks were really huge, bright yellow and I don't think I cooked them long enough, there is also the thought of where they came from The next time we had them I cooked them a little longer and they were superb. I hope your OH can get used to them, shop eggs are so bland now compared to our girls eggs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenlass Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 How odd....it did feel a bit strange eating my first eggs especially after I had seen one of the girls eating a worm [i am vegetarin] butI really don't think about it now as they are so lovely. Please don't mind my saying this but I heard that eggs can taste different depending on what the chickens have been fed... You don't think he just had an odd tasting egg do you on that day. I hope he comes round as he is missing out on a lovely treat and no " free range" eggs fromn a supermarket are ever going to taste as nice as home produced eggs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xScrunchee Posted June 7, 2007 Author Share Posted June 7, 2007 Who knows what his problem is!! I somehow doubt that he had a funny tasting egg as after eating the eggs he claimed that he didn't like them because they had no flavour. Last night he said that when he ate them they tasted funny-so did they have no taste or a funny taste????? As for supermarket eggs, whilst waiting for our hens to lay, I bought some free range eggs. I cracked one open to find a developing chick which was bigger than a large pea. I could clearly see the wing buds and everything. That was repulsive!! Imagine had I not cracked it open and boiled it or something. I wouldn't have even noticed the chick untill I had started eating. So, in my opinion I would rather eat the eggs my girls lay as I know that they won't have been fertilized. I think OH is just being annoying-it seems to be a talent of his! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenlass Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Eerrrr...yuck... Yes really can't work his reasoning on this out at all. Poor you seeing that chick. Have you thought about swapping some of you eggs for the shop ones and seeing if he notices ?? hehee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 He must be a townee who has never associated his breakfast with hens' bottoms before. Tell him "Better the clean bottom you know than the dirty one you don't." One thing that may reassure him is that although the eggs come out of the same orifice as the poo, they come down in an internal tube so there is no contact between eggs and poo. Having said that, however, my new Pepperpot has started to lay, and I was disappointed with the paleness and flavour of her first egg. I think eggs may improve as the hens' systems get going properly. And don't get a cow, or he may stop drinking milk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapsody Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Men are weird arent they? You should have seen my 6ft ex-rugby player hubby leg it up the stairs when a bat flew in the other night! Eat the eggs yourself, and if he wants supermarket make him go himself to get them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovemychooks Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 I can sympathise about not wanting to eat the first eggs that your chickens lay, I felt a bit funny about it too ! I gave my Mum & Dad the first eggs my chickens had laid thinking that they would be really happy to try them but it took a bit more persuasion than that, as I found out. I had spoken to my Mum and said that it would be nice for them both to have them for tea but Mum wanted to use the eggs in cakes !!! They have now come round to the idea that they like my chickens eggs now and quite happily eat them ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Well, I can understand. I felt really odd and reluctant eating our hens' eggs. But you do get over it. And now, I agree, I am much happier eating eggs from my garden than I am using shop-bought eggs. Reassure him that it will get better! I too have a complete horror of finding developing chicks! When I was 12 we did a course in Biology about chicken development. We had an incubator in the classroom with fertilised eggs and each week we opened up another 7 eggs (1 per small group! ) to see how the development was progressing. I am afraid that even at that young age I was completely shocked by the cruelty and refused to take part. I told the teacher I was quite happy to look at pictures in a book. Or if it was absolutely necessary, just one egg a week would have been enough. No need to kill so many chicks. I couldn't eat an egg for at least a year after that course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 I occasionally feel strange about the eggs - but it puts me off all eggs, not our own I just don't eat boiled eggs for a while but I make cakes with them. I can't eat duck eggs at all - to me, the shells have a smell and I just can't do it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 I do know what you mean. The first egg we got was still warm when we found it and I did feel a little strange. But that soon went, when we tasted them. we have been lucky and haven't bought/eaten other eggs since July last year. With 2 out of 3 girls poorly and on antibiotics, I thought we would have to buy eggs! *shock, horror at the thought* We are just being 'tight' with the eggs now and no one is getting any! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy C Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 I only felt a little odd about eating our eggs when I saw Peri consume a mouse. However, she hadn't started laying yet, so I kicked myself for being silly. Now she has begun laying and she ate a slow worm at the weekend. I must remember to give her last couple of eggs away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Now she has begun laying and she ate a slow worm at the weekend. I must remember to give her last couple of eggs away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura & CTB Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 I always have to think twice about eating the next eggs after the girls have been eating woodlice or spiders what I really cant do any more is cook a whole chicken - looks.....well....just too chicken like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 I wish mine would go off them...I have had to put a limit on the minimum number of eggs in the box before anyone can have one as it was 3 weeks before I had a whole egg to myself. Also when my neighbours had their chickens they were very kind and gave us some eggs, so we did a taste test for the kids to see if they could tell which were from the shop.......and that is what convinced me to get chickens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 How about all the tasty morsels they consume when you're not looking. I have to admit its never bothered. Better the bottom you know. I just wish they would lay more of them we only seem to be getting a couple a week at the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Put me off a bit when they gorged on slugs and snails No problems now though! I also used to have a problem with home grown veg - too much chance of coming across pests. Would much prefer a nice sterile piece of supermarket veg! I'm trying really hard to re-educate myself back to 'proper' food! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Men are weird arent they? You should have seen my 6ft ex-rugby player hubby leg it up the stairs when a bat flew in the other night! Eat the eggs yourself, and if he wants supermarket make him go himself to get them I'm with Rhapsody on this one; either he's squeamish and won't admit it, or just being plain perverse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pearsons Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 My son's girlfriend won't eat eggs or anything containing egg as she says it is "eating hens periods". I have tried to explain but she still won't do it. More for us!!! Helen in Hume Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanbb Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 The way I see it, is at least I know what the girls have eaten the majority of the time and it makes for lovely, tasty eggs Susan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 My son's girlfriend won't eat eggs or anything containing egg as she says it is "eating hens periods". I have tried to explain but she still won't do it. How odd is that?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 My son's girlfriend won't eat eggs or anything containing egg as she says it is "eating hens periods". I have tried to explain but she still won't do it. How odd is that?! I actually think thats a better argument thatn those that wont eat them because they come from chickens they knows bottoms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...