Differences Between Commercial And Home-Grown Eggs

crranch · Post by **crranch** » Fri May 01, 2009 9:15 pm

Your right Wayne, I enjoy the daily sounds of my working girls as they peep around in the yard. And they don't get into many fights over office space, since Rick made them a layer nest with 4 nest, plenty of cubicles for everyone during work hours... I could however, live without my 5 month old Roo learning to crow before dawn...He sounds like a teenage boy whose voice is changing

As far as freezing eggs, we have done it before by cracking the egg into a freezer proof container ( I like the rubbermaid ones, but any one will do ) you can also crack one egg in each slot of an ice tray too, but then you have to baggie the ice tray, and getting them out isn't quite as easy....Next step is either scramble the egg, to break the yolk, or just take a toothpick and pierce the yolk. That keeps the yolk from popping when it freezes. We put 4 or 5 eggs in each container then freeze them. They lasted all winter long, and enabled us to have safe eggs and not have to keep the working girls under lights all winter....

As far as taste and using them, we mainly just did scrambled eggs and used them for cooking ,but couldn't tell any difference, still tasted great...

C

Polly · Post by **Polly** » Mon May 04, 2009 6:28 am

Carrie,

You said you put 4-5 in the same container. Do you later use all of them at once, or is it possible to take out 2 or 3? That would seem pretty tricky........ Thanks for the tip.

Love,

Polly

P.S. I love that commercial for sleeping pills with the rooster standing on the bed! BTW, do hens have personalities - I've never lived with 'em

Lucy · Post by **Lucy** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:55 am

Polly,

I just saw this and wanted to tell you about an experience my sister (six years younger) and I had as children.

You remember those Easter chickens kids used to get, and how those chicks seldomed survived for very long once they were taken home. (They are supposed to have been disease carriers we later found out!)?

Well, we had this one that did survive. I figure he stayed with us into adolescence in chicken years as his voice would change when he was just learning how to crow. I never knew they went through adolescence until then!

Anyway, we found out that either chickens aren't as dumb as we often hear, or else "Chirpy" was a very unusual chicken! Our house was long and skinny, with the kitchen on one end and our bedrooms at the other. My sister and I used to put Chirpy in his box in the kitchen, then run and hide in one of the bedrooms, and call "Chirrrrrpy" out loud, and he would jump out of that box, run down the hall, and find us every time. He LOVED hide and seek, and especially loved my little sister.

Welp, when the time came for him to move on, he went to live with a neighbor family to their ranch out in the middle of west Texas. My sister went along on that trip, so she witnessed what I'm about to tell you.

Chirpy was taken over to where their other chickens hung out out, and was properly introduced, but for the first couple of times he was taken out to their area, he would turn around, see my sister in the distance, and walk back to be with her. On the third time, he must've realized that he was meant to be with chickens as he took a long look back at my sister, but stayed, hopefully, to live happily ever after as the main man in that part of the ranch.

If you don't believe this story, you can ask my sister. We were just discussing Chirpy the other night while getting our mother settled down in her bed. I really missed not having that little guy around.

Yours, Luce

crranch · Post by **crranch** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:56 am

Polly wrote:Carrie,

You said you put 4-5 in the same container. Do you later use all of them at once, or is it possible to take out 2 or 3? That would seem pretty tricky........ Thanks for the tip.

Love,

Polly

P.S. I love that commercial for sleeping pills with the rooster standing on the bed! BTW, do hens have personalities - I've never lived with 'em

I'm sorry Polly...I just now saw this post...( senior moment

) When I freeze the eggs, I use the whole container at once...If I think I'm going to need single eggs, I will freeze them in ice cube trays, to make getting a single out much easier...

Hugs,
C

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:30 pm

Since I read this thread, I've been looking for a farm that sells fresh eggs. To my surprise, my DD discovered one just a couple of miles from my home! I'm waiting to have Normans for a week in a row before I test eggs. I'm thinking of dipping bread in the yolk first, like I used to. Oh, how I'd love an egg for breakfast again! Thank you for giving me hope.

Gloria

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:18 pm

I wanted to share my test of farm fresh eggs.

I bought some eggs from a free range farm which guaranteed that their eggs were not more than two weeks old. That seemed old to me, but DD brought me to the place, so I bought a dozen.

I ate one scrambled yesterday with two sausage links and waited all day and night for a reaction. I didn't have one! My BM this morning was fairly typical - Norman to solid, no D. The last time I ate an egg (in a restaurant), I had to run to the bathroom a couple of hours later.

I am so excited that I might be able to eat eggs occasionally and maybe even use them in bread or baked products. I plan on freezing the rest of the dozen so that they don't lose their freshness. I've read that you need to add salt or sugar, depending on how you plan to use them, but Carrie doesn't mention that.

I'm thinking I shouldn't try to eat another one for a week. Does once a week sound OK?

Gloria

Post by **tex** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 3:14 pm

I can't answer your question, but if I were in your shoes, there wouldn't be any need to freeze those eggs, because they would probably all be gone in 3 or 4 days, and I'd be picking up another dozen or so, before then, to make sure that I didn't run low.

Tex

Nancy · Post by **Nancy** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 4:16 pm

I raise my own hens and feed them a commercial mash along with letting them free range. I am now wondering if I could eat these. I scored 33 on my Entero lab for eggs. But now that I think of it I was eating those eggs when I was tested so I don't think is a chance I'll be eating eggs again in my lifetime :(

Post by **tex** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 10:06 pm

That test looks for antibodies to the albumin (egg whites), so if your test result was positive, you are correct that you will probably never be able to safely eat chicken eggs. There's a slim possibility that you might be able to tolerate duck eggs, or eggs from some other foul, but even those may not work, because your test score was relatively high.

Tex

ldubois7 · Post by **ldubois7** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:00 am

Polly,

So, even after getting a clean (no MC) colonoscopy, you still have lots of food intolerances, and if you hazard to try a food, you may be in for a reaction that lasts several day, as you mentioned with the eggs?
It's not that I thought MC would magically go away after a few years, but I'm just preparing myself for what lies ahead, realistically.

Freezing eggs:

http://faithfulprovisions.com/2011/10/2 ... eeze-eggs/

Post by **tex** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 9:39 am

Linda,

Please be aware that this is another very old (over 4 years old) thread that someone revived, FWIW.

Tex

ldubois7 · Post by **ldubois7** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 9:50 am

Oh my stars...I didn't even look at the dates! We do know better now, don't we? I scored 21 units for eggs on Enterolab. My dream is to be able to bake with them someday, and I'll hang on to that! Thanks, Tex!

(I found a chicken!)