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AIBU?

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to think WTF?

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missbonita · 09/04/2018 12:11

I have a small holding and keep free range chickens.

Dropping DD at a friends this morn I took a box of our multicoloured eggs as a little thank you. When I handed them over she handed them straight back with a look of absolute disgust on her face and said "Oh, no thanks, I cant eat them when I know where they've been" and made a gipping noise/sick face. I thought it was pretty rude but just smiled and apologised "sorry, I didn't know you didn't eat eggs". She then said "I we eat eggs, but I wouldn't eat those" and turned away. She then opened the fridge to put away groceries she was unpacking and I saw a huge box of every day value eggs from tesco.

I didn't say anything else and left but why on earth would anyone eat eggs from caged hens and not free range eggs?

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TerfsUp · 10/04/2018 21:45

Thanks, OP for the informative posts. I've greatly enjoyed this thread.

Morphene · 10/04/2018 22:00

awww the eggs are beautiful!

dragonara53 · 10/04/2018 22:07

What an idiot, fresh, free range eggs are lovely, my dad had lots of Chickens, Geese and Ducks. We always had fresh eggs when I was growing up. He sold them straight from the nests or wherever the birds had laid them as they had a large paddock to roam in plus sheds to nest in if they prefered. My dad only washed them for us and my grandparents everyone else had to wash their own. I remember going round to a neighbours and the neighbour was eating two boiled eggs and dipping toast into them, the yolk was dripping down the shell and he wiped it up with toast and ate it plus some chicken shit. I made sure our eggs were clean before eating them lol.

Petrify · 10/04/2018 22:48

I heard free range eggs farms use Cockerell and sometimes blood is seen as the chick is trying to hatch. But yes she was rude x

healzam · 11/04/2018 00:11

She's just strange. This gave me a giggle

Maisymoo22 · 11/04/2018 00:11

I’m blessed to have free range eggs regularly as my friend’s father has hens.
She brings them into school.
In the six weeks summer break.

when I don’t see her, so no eggs, I hold off from buying supermarket ones until I desperately need them.

There’s no comparison, free range have such an intense flavour and rich colour.

If she could bring herself to taste them just once I’m sure she’d be hooked!

MrsCrabbyTree · 11/04/2018 03:57

@viques

thebewilderness · 11/04/2018 04:41

They are afraid a dead chook will fall out.

Nitpickpicnic · 11/04/2018 04:48

Hilarious! This made my day! Not sure this friendship has a future...ignorant, rude and discourteous. My DD would be a bit too busy for the next playdate(s).

I don’t need to be explaining food ethics and manners all the live-long day at home, only to find my work undone by this nonsense and a plastic cheese/plastic bread sammich for lunch at theirs (I’m guessing).

My DD was in wonderment recently when a farmer friend gave me a ‘happy’ raised duck he had dispatched and dressed, wrapped in newspaper as a present last week. Unexpected delicious roast dinner, plus enough fat left for 2 weeks of potatoes. I was in raptures! She said she’d rather have a chocolate one...

People who knock back lovely hand-raised food in favour of plastic food do us all a disservice, as well as being dills in their own right.

Nitpickpicnic · 11/04/2018 04:50

By the way, OP, can you post an update pic of your next colourful egg basketful so that we can drool over it? (Or at least the non vegan/allergic/etc among us can).

MyNameIsJane · 11/04/2018 07:29

Love this thread!

LoislovesStewie · 11/04/2018 09:17

When I was young we kept chickens in the back garden, they wandered around during the day eating whatever was around, worms etc . Lots of lovely noises from the chickens and the best tasting eggs ever. All chickens should be able to live like that.

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missbonita · 11/04/2018 09:35

I have a treat for you all today!

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missbonita · 11/04/2018 09:37

She's laid a whopper!
Normal egg for scale

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TerfsUp · 11/04/2018 09:44

Wowee. Is she walking around with her legs crossed?

MamosianAntiMatterChopsticks · 11/04/2018 09:47

Loved the info and facts OP. Very interesting.

We used to live in a semi-rural area and DH and I would cycle into the rural villages to buy eggs from people who kept their own hens and ducks. We loved the different sizes, colours and obviously the far superior taste.

We had to move to a suburban area for work and really miss the truly free-range eggs. We buy free-range from the supermarket but I'm never entirely confident of how free-range they really are.

MumW · 11/04/2018 10:04

Loving this thread. Interesting, edegg-ucationale, funny and containing good old MN batshitness.

MumW · 11/04/2018 10:07

Whoops, strikeout fail. ed egg ucational.

Catsandkids78 · 11/04/2018 12:41

Also FYI free range eggs sold in the supermarket still live inside and have less than 3ft by 3ft ....

check what constitutes as free range.

hdh747 · 11/04/2018 17:59

The organic eggs I buy, when I can't get them from a farm, are actually different sizes and colours and it explains on the box that it's because they come from a variety of hens who eat what they want.

Also FYI free range eggs sold in the supermarket still live inside and have less than 3ft by 3ft ....

The legal minimum is 9 hens per square metre for free-range and 6 hens for organic, so it's worse than that I'm afraid. But the biggest difference is that the flock sizes for free-range tend to be so big that the hens simply cannot get to the access points to get outside, and of course they don't have to be fed organic food.

Mildred007 · 11/04/2018 21:41

This thread is fab, I have learnt loads haha. I live rurally and often get our eggs from neighbours too - my dc love it when we get different coloured eggs, especially if they're blue ones!
I will also buy free range eggs from the super market and must admit I was pretty ignorant about them until this thread.

I also had no idea about it not being legal to wash eggs in the UK - when did this law come in as I used to work on a turkey farm in my summer holidays collecting eggs etc and we used to put them through a machine to wash any muck off - the turkeys would often be sitting on them when we went round to collect them (they were kept in large barns).
Our butcher often tells me about children he has met who have no idea about what meat is/where it comes from (he farms most of his own) - I'm pleased my children are aware of what they are eating and where it has come from.

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missbonita · 12/04/2018 09:03

Hi Mildred - we don't eat turkey eggs - they'll have been going for incubation so washing them is fine :)

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Schlimbesserung · 12/04/2018 09:24

Turkey eggs are delicious scrambled. We didn't eat many though, because we could get so much money for them.

josbd · 12/04/2018 09:30

Ridiculous, bloody rude, and immensely dim bint! Please, OP, send eggs to Fife! I would love to be able to find a place where I could buy some free range, multi coloured, and different sized eggs. That is what we grew up with, together with bantams' eggs and occasionally, duck eggs. How lovely!

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missbonita · 12/04/2018 10:49

I'm had 4 bantam eggs for breakfast - convincing myself they are so tiny they are 2 for 1

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