Comments on: Double yolk eggs

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:50:06 +0000

Neo,
Point taken!

By: neo

neo — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 22:47:47 +0000

Molly Brown:

I never had chicken itch. I had relatives who owned a commercial chicken farm, and we used to visit them when I was a young child. The chicken coops were interesting but filled me with horror. So many chickens in those huge structures. When people entered, the chickens would make a din and scurry into the corners, piling up. They gave me the willies.

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 22:42:12 +0000

Gordon Scott,
AND they make great fertilizer! Forgot to mention that. I used to scoop the coop droppings with a flat end shovel every week or two and dump it on one of my citrus trees. Banana plants – heavy feeders – love chicken poop.
This is a dangerous thread – I am starting to get ‘chicken itch’ again!

By: Gordon Scott

Gordon Scott — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 22:17:22 +0000

If you want really good, fresher eggs, look on Craigslist. There’s probably someone close by who sells them. Most I find charge $3 per dozen–you pay that much in the store for inferior eggs. I usually pay $5 per dozen, and it is always appreciated.

When we were early in the pandemic I was talking to a grocery store manager who said he understood the toilet paper and tuna shortages, but what was up with pancake mix? I reminded him that his store was in a free school breakfast neighborhood. Those kids were now not getting that breakfast. Same with eggs, I expect.

“Organic” eggs: the gal who founded Locally Laid says that all organic chicken feed comes from China. That and an eyebrow tells you why LL eggs are not organic, although they are natural and delicious.

Molly Brown, you are entirely right about chickens being soothing.

I have heard of a guy who takes in retired laying hens (they stop laying after two years). He has large piles of food waste, The hens will cheerfully rampage through the waste, and afterwards what is left is completely free of seeds and bugs, but is amazingly rich fertilizer. He bags and sells it at a premium price.

I wanted to have chickens. My ex is a farm girl and has no romantic memories of chickens. We did not have chickens.

By: steve walsh

steve walsh — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 20:51:53 +0000

Last week I had two double-yolk eggs from the same store bought dozen. What a strange coincidence, but maybe it is due to the reasons you cite and so not so unusual.

This dozen last week will be our last from the store until late in the Fall. We have a neighbor with chickens that will supply us from now until then and she delivered the first bunch today. Probably seen my last double-yolk egg for awhile.

By: JohnTyler

JohnTyler — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 18:00:42 +0000

Speaking of eggs;

In 2019 the US produced 113 BILLION eggs.
Iowa is the largest egg producer in the USA at 15% of the total.
Ohio and Indiana are ties for second place at 9% of the total.

Have to feel sorry for chickens; first we steal their babies, cook’em up and eat them, and then when hens can no longer lay eggs , we cook’em and eat them too.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:06:29 +0000

Stopped reading after “…frying my wife…”

By: Doug+Purdie

Doug+Purdie — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:52:02 +0000

I have been frying my wife an egg every morning since the pandemic forced her to work from home. We eat more eggs because we’re home every morning.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 06:17:40 +0000

Regarding increased egg consumption I wonder if it also has to do with the fact that eggs are HEALTHY again(!), i.e., that over the past several years the health-and-nutrition poobahs have officially declared that eggs are indeed a healthy food—full of “good” cholesterol and other great stuff—contrary to the severe admonishments of the several previous decades.

Next stop, tobacco?—as Woody Allen joked in “Sleeper”…IIRC.

By: DButkus

DButkus — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 03:44:34 +0000

There was a wild game shop here years ago that was closed down because of suspicious things.

I went in there once. They had Boar bacon and Ostrich eggs

I did consider it. For a millisecond.

Settled for buffalo, ostrich and kangaroo burgers. Kangaroo? How would I really know?