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Valerie

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I thought ok, easy night.....I will make bacon & scrambled eggs........and hash browns......., because let's face it I worked 10 hours today and I am not in the mood to cook much of anything.

So, I thought I was being a "conscience consumer" the other day & bought organic eggs......thinking, hmmmmm......maybe I should try these ...no homones, free range chickens....(course who knows what that means up here in Western WA)......

So, my bacon is going great....then I (being the careful cook I am)...get a bowl & start cracking eggs.....I am noticing a few little blood spots....thinking..oh ick.....fish those out....not big ones...but mind you, I INSPECT everything..........then I get down to my 5th & final egg.....I crack it up...geez, this one is kinda hard......geez, that looks really dark inside.......then the stench hit....I almost threw up right in the sink...it had a rotten chick in it.........I didn't even have to break the thing all the way open....

Needless to say, the bacon is done frying & I am done with thoughts of dinner....I couldn't get that out of the house fast enough....oh the stench.......... I guess when hubby gets up to work tonight he can have oatmeal of PBJ sandwich.

Anyway, he is sleeping & I had to tell someone.....this just grossed me out beyond belief. Now I am starting to gag again, so I am done now..just wanted to share my gross-out story.
 
Yuck! I believe the red spot simply means the egg had been fertilized. Finding that rotten one must have been disgusting though. Did you buy these from a store or a private individual? I love good, fresh ranch eggs but right now we get them from a cousin and she has no roosters so we don't have to worry about anything like that.
 
I bought them at the supermarket.......

I had been told that is what the red spot meant...and frankly when my Dad told me that before it grossed me out.....so let's just say....Valerie may not be eating eggs for awhile......
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Oh gosh Val I think I would die if I had to smell that. I have a somewhat of weak stomach...Yuck Yuck Yuck... Yeah the blood spots def. mean it was fertilized...How sad though for the poor chick.. LOL I knew there was a reason why I didn't eat eggs.
 
Anything for you sweet Marty, anything for you.

All the barfing emicons have me gagging again.......

I guess I am going to have to switch topics.....
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Yuck!!! Maybe you should buy the regular eggs...they have so much crap in them from the food the chickens eat an embryo couldn't even begin to grow!

oooh yuck, I'm sorry for you.
 
Truthfully, I would go back to that store and complain. The eggs should be well-screened to avoid this kind of thing. Of course, they might offer to give you some new eggs...
 
EEEWWWWWEEEEE okay i just about puked reading that!!!! AUGH, i can about smell it through the computer, bad images, bad images!
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That's totally wierd..........you bought them from the grocery store???
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Usually grocery store eggs are totally UNFERTILIZED.

MA
 
Urgh! That is very disgusting
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You know with "grossest thing" in the topic title, I will be sure to read!!!

When my mother was little, she lived part of the time with her grandmother and her aunts who were a few years older and had their own horses. My great grandmother told my mother if she'd go to the store and get some eggs, she could take one of the horses to do it (a big treat for her).

My great grandmother had never had store bought eggs before but had run out and needed eggs. My mother took this bratty boy with her and on the way home with the eggs, he did something to startle the horse and the eggs got busted.

Needing to get eggs for my great grandmother, she went to a farm they were near and got some eggs. When my grandmother went to use them, she found chicks
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And she never again wanted to buy store bought eggs!
 
Oh MY!! That is totally disgusting! I can't even imagine what kind of company would have such lax procedures in place that an egg like that would get through to the consumer. All eggs should be 'candled' to determine that they are clear, whether there is a rooster around or not. Even eggs from virgin chickens can have weird things going on inside and they should never make it to the consumer. I would definitely take it back to the store, or even better yet, write a letter to the egg company too. Ugh.

Just a side note: a red spot does NOT mean the egg is fertilized. A fertilized egg actually has a white bulls-eye looking kind of thing on the yolk. Those red spots are called blood spots and they happen right at the beginning of the egg cycle when a little bit of blood comes off when the egg leaves the ovary. If you don't like it, just take a sharp edge of shell and pick it out. Of course that'll break your yolk.

I have a small flock of 11 chickens and they keep me and a friend in eggs. I've learned a LOT, but mostly how good fresh eggs from happy chickens taste. I dread the thought of having to buy store bought eggs someday when these girls slow down their laying but have earned their retirement. If you have space, it is definitely worth having some hens. They are incredibly entertaining, eat just about every bit of kitchen waste, and give us tasty eggs!

Jayne
 
Oh MAN!!!!!! I feel for ya Valerie!!!! That's not nice!!!
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It's ironic with as long as I've been raising chickens.....approx. 18 years now...that I don't "do" eggs....lol.....I really can't stomach the taste of them. If by chance...and that's a remote chance.....that I do have one...it has to be here at home, scrambled and smothered with lots of cheese, onions, green peppers, pepper, salt.....and by then...why even eat it? :DOH! I have to agree with Jayne....the red spot does'nt necessarily mean that it's been fertilized. I've always had roosters in with my chickens and very rarely do we get blood spots. If we do, they are just discarded. Your best bet is to cull your chickens, keep your egg producing ones young between ages 2 and 4, and like you did...I always break eggs in a different bowl before I add them to anything I'm cooking. Man that must've been so nasty to have to smell that....(I know how horrible rotten eggs smell with a dead embryo in them)...that smell is bad enough to stay stuck inyour nostril hairs for weeks on end!!!
 
That one almost had me wretching! That had to be one very old egg!

I raise chickens and once in awhile I will let the hens set but if nothing hatches after the incubation period I toss them and they stink to high heaven! I would go right back to that store and ask them what and where do they get their eggs!
 
I am glad I worked on a duck farm and have smelled that aweful smell before or I would be sick. I am so glad my parents have chickens and no rooster but I still take a light and check the eggs before i crack them open.
 
The only part of this that surprised me was that this got through the candling process even farms around here that sell eggs candle their eggs before selling them cant imagine that a non candled egg would get to a supemarket around here. I buy from an employee of my husbands and the eggs are wonderful. Often double yolks.
 
Truthfully, I would go back to that store and complain. The eggs should be well-screened to avoid this kind of thing. Of course, they might offer to give you some new eggs...
I agree go back to that store and complain. I've never had that happen. Even a backyard chicken owner can candle eggs with a flashlight :DOH! :DOH!
 

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