We were having eggs for breakfast and my DS who's 3 pointed to his eggs and said, "They're dead, dead babies. They can't have babies." His older sister explained to him that eggs are baby chickens, never to be born. I know, I know, I just try not to think about those things while eating eggs. I'm a vegetarian, but would love to cross over to veganism. Ugh!There goes my appetite...

Ugh! I'm vegan, but just bought some eggs. Now I don't know if I'll be able to do it. lol

How do get around not using eggs for things like cake? I know they have vegan recipes for cake, but I've never tried them. I LOVE vegan cookies, though!

I've used the egg replacer and it's fine. Honestly I get the most requests for the vegan "ice cream" cake that I make.

Please share!! When you have the time...

Thanks!

unfertilized eggs will never be babies. It's like a placenta/amniotic fluid in a shell. Not that it's any LESS gross! ;)

Actually, a chicken's menstrual cycle is laying eggs. Yum!:p

I am SO naive'-I guess I never thought about chickens "menstruating". I thought that if a hen sat on her eggs, in due time chicks would hatch. I mean, chickens are always having sex, at least, at my grandmas house they seemed to be! I can't believe I am typing about wild chicken sex.LOL

Thanks for the lesson, mamas!!!!!

OKAY OKAY ====>>>>> while we are on the topic of chicken sex...umm....I didn't know they had sex. I mean, I guess there is no other way for the egg to be fertilized...i kinda thought something happened AFTER the egg was laid that fertilized it.

AND chickens are REALLY stupid, imho, so is that why a chicken will lay on an unfertilized egg - hoping it will turn into a chick???

LMAO

Yep. You know, one would figure a rooster would be too stupid to figure out where to put...it....:o :p

Originally posted by Bladestar5
Yep. You know, one would figure a rooster would be too stupid to figure out where to put...it....:o :p

Well, I've known some pretty moronic men that procreated, so it obviously doesn't take much braincells.

ROTFLMAO so true.:D

Well, I've known some pretty moronic men that procreated, so it obviously doesn't take much braincells. [/QUOTE]

I made it through the first part of this thread quietly giggling, but this comment made me wake the sleeping toddler
lol
too funny
:)Jenn

wow, I had no idea about that. Gee you learn something new everyday :D

I was talking to my mom about this post(dunno why I didn't ask her in the first place about eggs) and she told me that you would know that a hen's eggs were fertilized when she refused to get off her nest. They didn't touch her eggs then. (she grew up raising chickens, hogs, etc.) Isn't that amazing?

I heard nowdays they shine a light through the eggs to see if it's fertilized or not-the big factory farms, I suppose...

I can't believe I am typing about wild chicken sex.

LOL LOL LOL LOL

Wild chicken sex!! Cracks me up!!!

You are too funny!

Not sure how many eggs we'll be eating from now on...


Amy

LOL! Chicken sex eh? umm..

Oh and Amy! Don't feel badly! I didn't know until i was about 20! LOL! And now your kiddos will know a lot sooner!! :)

We had chickens when we were little, and were also in charge of the egg collecting... and when an egg is fertilized it has a small red dot on the egg yolk, sometimes it even has a small embrionic cord (Those are the ones where we said YUCK as kids). And it is true that most chickens will fight to stay with a fertile egg. We always had a roster (named Randy after my dad) in the chicken pen with them... and we only got about three chicks a year. I guess our chickens wern't into wild chicken sex... ;) lol!

Love Val

blech! eggs gross me out. i just can't get past wondering how we started eating eggs -- "hey, something just popped outta that chicken's butt. let's fry it up and eat it!!" :eek: :confused: :chick:

Lol. Probably someone was starving, and saw an animal eat one, and decided to try it...then found out they taste pretty good.
People have been eating them since the beginning of time.
Eskimos eat them partially developed, or at least did in a book I read. I think it was Island of the Blue Dolphins.:confused:

Originally posted by Laurie
LOL Technically, eggs do not actually come out 'the butt'. But yeah, most foods, depending on where you live, have some sort of ick factor. I can see the ick factor in an egg.

Laurie

lol laurie:p i did realize that eggs did not come out of a chicken's behind. i was just making fun of the grossness of it (in my opinion, that is -- my dh would die if i quit making him eggs on the weekends, and scrambled eggs are one of the few foods that tucker will eat no matter what :) )

Originally posted by Laurie
Your chicken was mis-named, VAl. A 'Randy' rooster would have more chickie spawn. LOL

laurie

ROFLMAO!!!!!! Good one Laurie!

love Val

we had chickens when I was a kid and I was the egg collector, and it is true that a hen will peck your hand to pieces other that let you have the fertilized eggs. otherwise they just lay an egg and hop on up and continue on their day.

but this always grossed me out as a kid... if I dropped one of the eggs I had collected on the ground by accident all the chickens would run over as fast as they could and start pecking and eating it! I always wondered why if eggs were such a treat to them they didn't just break one themselves? does anyone know why chickens like their own eggs but won't actually break them theirselves? Or was it only my crazy ass chickens? LOL

Oh and chickens do seem sort of stupid, remember in Finding Nemo when the seagulls are always just milling out saying "mine mine mine mine..." over and over? that is so totally a chicken attitude. But if you watch birds lots of them are that way, except ducks they are amazing and intelligent :)

Storm

LOL speaking of the seagulls in Nemo...my daughter sounds like them lately..same voice almost too...funniest thing:p