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amyorama · 02-26-2004, 08:26 AM

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...

Shannon · 02-26-2004, 11:24 AM

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

amyorama · 02-26-2004, 02:09 PM

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!

Shannon · 02-26-2004, 05:46 PM

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.

amyorama · 02-26-2004, 06:37 PM

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

Thanks!

TrishLynne · 02-26-2004, 06:52 PM

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

Shoshoni · 02-26-2004, 07:02 PM

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

amyorama · 02-26-2004, 09:18 PM

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!!!!!

marjen · 02-27-2004, 01:29 PM

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

Shoshoni · 02-27-2004, 01:43 PM

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

arasmama · 02-27-2004, 01:47 PM

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

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

Shoshoni · 02-27-2004, 02:01 PM

ROTFLMAO so true.

marchroses · 02-27-2004, 06:41 PM

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

sweetpeasma · 03-02-2004, 08:02 AM

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

amyorama · 03-02-2004, 09:24 AM

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...