sal64
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i dont no good question , i try to keep my chickens as clean as possible i collect eggs twice a day, i often worry about that i have been selling 5 yrs now never had a prob but if someone gets sick they could sew me big time.
Glad To Have Our Own Eggs
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i dont no good question , i try to keep my chickens as clean as possible i collect eggs twice a day, i often worry about that i have been selling 5 yrs now never had a prob but if someone gets sick they could sew me big time.
people who sell at the market i sell at are very proud of what they sell. i'm looking forward to this when the chicks i got in may start laying.My goodness that is a lot for eggs. $1.50 to $2.00 tops is all the country folks around pay. Those must be special.
Freds
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I got my chickens a few years back and they didn't start laying until November, which was a few weeks later than I expected, but they laid all winter, which was nice. No artificial light, as I don't want to burn them out quicker. Last winter nothing.
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bp fick
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Was taught to raise chickens by my grand mother and my dad over 50 years ago. Salmonella is in the gut tract of most living beings. No big deal, unless A.) you crack your eggs with chicken poop still on the shell. B.) Don't wash your hands properly after coming in from the hen house. C) undercook your eggs. Even infected eggs are sterilized over a certain temperature, which I believe requires excess of 160 degrees. (for you watery egg lovers)
The reason these outbreaks are more likely in the "chicken factories" is the ridiculously cramped quarters, shoddy operation and questionable practices of poultry raising. Frankly, those places gross me out.
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bp fick
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Typical of the second year.
/pine
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two things about farm fresh eggs...
The yolks are much richer and deeper in color than most store bought eggs...much more flavorful too...
Also...when you crack a fresh egg in the skillet...the white will not run flat all over the pan (like less fresh eggs)...it will plop right together...
nothing better than farm fresh eggs (with gritts of course)....
in the city...I have a friend that gets his chickens from the local mosquito control...they use common hens to monitor (sentry) for diseases...they only keep the birds so long and they have never been given any steroids etc...
The yolks are much richer and deeper in color than most store bought eggs...much more flavorful too...
Also...when you crack a fresh egg in the skillet...the white will not run flat all over the pan (like less fresh eggs)...it will plop right together...
nothing better than farm fresh eggs (with gritts of course)....
in the city...I have a friend that gets his chickens from the local mosquito control...they use common hens to monitor (sentry) for diseases...they only keep the birds so long and they have never been given any steroids etc...
Bird
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Yep, all these folks talking about paying $2 or $3 a dozen for eggs while I'm paying $1.38 might not sound too good to some folks, but if you prefer the richer flavor, free range eggs could well be worth the difference. I like the richer flavor and darker color yolks myself, but I've know people who've eaten nothing but the store bought factory produced eggs and then did not like the different taste of free range eggs when they had a chance to try them.
jimmysisson
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One of our local producers feeds the spent hops from a microbrewery - now HIS eggs are something, best I ever tasted! Have to try that...
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seymojo536
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Chickens are under paid workers...
it takes a whole day for the hen to make one egg...
twelve days work to make a dozen eggs and then have to listen to consumers whine if they have to pay two dollars for twelve days of work...
hardly enough to buy chicken feed!
it takes a whole day for the hen to make one egg...
twelve days work to make a dozen eggs and then have to listen to consumers whine if they have to pay two dollars for twelve days of work...
hardly enough to buy chicken feed!
clemsonfor
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If you cook eggs propper you cant get samonella. Just like you can pick up rotted meat on the side of the road and cook it well done there will be no bacteria to get you sick, it will smell horible and make you gag but there is no bacteria after a through cocking. I dont eat raw eggs and always cook mine through so im not worried.