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First eggs in ten years....

backpacker said:
It is because there is a rooster about and the eggs are fertilized. My egg lady allows no roosters to be near her laying hens to keep them from being fertilized. She is two-time cancer survivor and is very strict about her diet now. I am not sure that would make a difference, but her chickens, her rules.
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That's a myth. We had 2,000 hens and not a rooster in the bunch and we still had to deal with bloody eggs.
 
faithful_servant said:
Having grown up on an egg famr, I can you with great accuracy that a lot of egg allergies are based on what the hen has been eating. The more controlled the hen's diet is, the less chance of allergies being a problem. Don't get me wrong, I love good fresh farm eggs from hens that have had highly varied diet, but if you're fighting an allergy, then farm eggs are NOT the way to go.
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Could you expand on that?
 
woodsman said:
Could you expand on that?
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A lot of what a hen eats gets passed into the eggs. Let's say that you are allergic to mustard seeds and you buy eggs from a lady who has free range chickens that eat a lot of wild mustard (one of the best things your hen can eat). You could have a reaction to the compounds that are being passed through the hen into the eggs and suddenly you have a big problem. Now a big egg farmer who only feeds his hens a grain mix that has no mustard in it at all may give you eggs that you eat day and night. Eggs are lot like honey, in that they both carry substances that were collected along the way.
 
faithful_servant said:
A lot of what a hen eats gets passed into the eggs. Let's say that you are allergic to mustard seeds and you buy eggs from a lady who has free range chickens that eat a lot of wild mustard (one of the best things your hen can eat). You could have a reaction to the compounds that are being passed through the hen into the eggs and suddenly you have a big problem. Now a big egg farmer who only feeds his hens a grain mix that has no mustard in it at all may give you eggs that you eat day and night. Eggs are lot like honey, in that they both carry substances that were collected along the way.
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Wouldn’t then people that are allergic to certain grains have issues? Actually the correlation If fact is rather alarming, more so than other animal products and feed. The honey connection makes sense to me.
 
woodsman said:
Wouldn’t then people that are allergic to certain grains have issues? Actually the correlation If fact is rather alarming, more so than other animal products and feed. The honey connection makes sense to me.
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Not everything gets passed through.
 
_Sal said:
what does candling mean faithful_servant?
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HOlding them over a bright light so that you can see the condition of the egg. If it's a bright yellow, then no blood, but at the slightest hint of orange, you know that have a bloody egg. It's also teh best way to see small checks in the shell that wouldn't be visible otherwise.
 
faithful_servant said:
HOlding them over a bright light so that you can see the condition of the egg. If it's a bright yellow, then no blood, but at the slightest hint of orange, you know that have a bloody egg. It's also teh best way to see small checks in the shell that wouldn't be visible otherwise.
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thank you
 
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