Keeping chickens is great fun especially if you can let them run free during the day. Despite most of them being dumb as rocks they are better entertainment than most tv shows. And they are great at keeping the bugs down especially ticks.
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Used to never eat eggs in England when the health minister said eggs contained salmonella. This was 1989 so I wouldn't eat English eggs ever. English food in general is of dubious origin. They mad cow disease and all the other problems they have. Like a third world country.
I absolutely love having them, and because we have property and plenty of ticks thanks to lots of woods surrounding us, I think they are very useful to have around. We have over 40 right now, and they are very entertaining.
I'd believe it. Although, the average TV show is admittedly pretty easily beaten when considering entertainment value!
Absolutely. That chlorinated chicken in the US is much better! Don’t believe everything you read. I think most people in third world countries would be very glad to eat the food an Englishman does.
Serious question: what kind of entertaining things do chickens do? I've only watched them run around when visiting farms, but haven't spent any quality time with any to get to know their personalities or habits. (Not a question I'd ever anticipated posting on MR! 😆)
A flock of chickens is kind of like a playground full of 6yo kids. They mostly are intent on doing their own thing, foraging, finding bugs and other things to eat. But they have a social "pecking" order and you will constantly see little interactions, arguments, even fights break out. If one finds something interesting, they seem to have a certain squawk that causes all the rest to come running. Make a loud noise and they all go running. And if you are sitting out in a lawn chair or if you are lucky enough to have a veranda, one or two will invariably want to be social with you and come up to visit.
Yep , chickens are very territorial and they have very strong personality never underestimate them. They are very courageous and always chase dogs, cats and even humans. I saw on youtube a hen killing a Hawk , hard to believe but it happened.
Same here, but sometimes its very hard to tell if its organic or cage free eggs.
Read? I lived it mate but I didn't want to die from a brain eating disease nor did I want to get sick from salmonella. The British food industry is one of the worst in the western countries.
Is that you Edwina?
This is the country whose farmers would take the dead animals which died of mad cow disease and churn it up so it could be used in the food chain as animal feed. When the rest of the world wouldn't touch your beef then yes it's the best in the western world. Even Micky D's used to import beef from France to England and advertise that it was imported to entice folk to eat. After all, you don't want a BSE burger when you eat out.
Every time I go to Britain I avoid eggs and all beef as I don't want to die.
So you avoid beef and eggs because of things that happened 30 and 36 years ago? You don’t think things have changed? BSE hasn’t been detected in decades and eggs are no longer washed here to force salmonella inside the shell. If you want higher cases of that, please visit the US.
I don't due eggs because of the sulfur gas afterwards, and the nasty things I'd find in the eggs. I was a cook at a dude ranch, and breakfast was a performance. They had one 'cowboy' (from Michigan?) that loved jalapeno omelets. My first day, we 'had words'. He sent the omelets back my first day, twice. Finally he comes swaggering into the kitchen, throws three egs on a skillet, plunges his hand into a huge industrial jar of jalapeno peppers, pulls out a massive fist ful of them, throws them on the cooking egg layer, swings the pan around, pro-style, to flip the omelet closed, and slides it onto a plate. Points at it and declares: 'LIKE THAT!'.
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The next day, he comes in and hugs me. 'PERFECT CHEF!!! BEST I'VE EVER HAD!!!'. I was 'chef' from that day on. A 'chef' at a dude ranch. I cut trees between orders, and gutted fish all evening for kids that caught them in our trout pond.
As a result: I hate eggs.
Yeah, the 'stuff' that I would find in some of those eggs was nauseating. I did find an egg that had a nearly fully developed chick inside. You get good at flicking things like that off the grill with a spatula. We used to put a dozen eggs into a large stainless bucket to do scrambled egg orders, and dredge Texas Toast through for 'french' toast. Picking the 'junk' out of the bucket was a little more involved. Yeah, yuck... However, most of them were fine, but the nasty ones were, often nasty...
Oh...
The next day, he comes in and hugs me. 'PERFECT CHEF!!! BEST I'VE EVER HAD!!!'. I was 'chef' from that day on. A 'chef' at a dude ranch. I cut trees between orders, and gutted fish all evening for kids that caught them in our trout pond.
As a result: I hate eggs.
Yeah, the 'stuff' that I would find in some of those eggs was nauseating. I did find an egg that had a nearly fully developed chick inside. You get good at flicking things like that off the grill with a spatula. We used to put a dozen eggs into a large stainless bucket to do scrambled egg orders, and dredge Texas Toast through for 'french' toast. Picking the 'junk' out of the bucket was a little more involved. Yeah, yuck... However, most of them were fine, but the nasty ones were, often nasty...
HAH!!!
Most nations stopped buying American beef after multiple loads of it tested positive for prions. American meat packers were caught using forklift trucks to deliver 'downer cattle' to slaughter. They were often convulsing on the floors, sick with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the 'brain wasting disease', or some other hideous disease/condition. Humans started coming down with BSE. They didn't live long, thankfully.
Britain stopped buying American beef for quite a while.
Funny, I did get out of giving blood because I ate so much French yogurt while in the UK. Who knew it was so dangerous. (American yogurt is a sad joke. WAY WAY WAY too much sugar. Like WOW! Their Oui yogurt is just about inedible because it's so damn sweet, and supposed to be 'French style' yogurt. Not even close... *BARF*)
I find well prepared eggs delicious. An excellent source of high quality protein without the negatives of red meat, and much healthier. Great source of vitamins, selenium, and lutein too. The bugaboo about cholesterol was incorrect, and actually increases good cholesterol. I never found anything funky in eggs in all the years I've prepared them.
Usually the package will tell you. I truthfully have no way of really knowing, unless it says ‘organic and/or cage free’, but typically the egg shell is brown. One thing I noticed, is that organic eggs, typically looks a little bit larger over your standard ‘white shell’ egg.
You obviously haven’t been here then for a very long time judging by that previous post. Beef and eggs have not been a health concern here for decades.
Probably I am not conditioned to respond like most as I don’t get exposed to the non-stop UK propaganda. What I will say is that those things didn’t just vanish so much as farmers got smarter at hiding it. UK farmers are the worst.
Not the worst by any means. You clearly don’t have any idea of what things are like in this country. We have very stringent checks for food safety here. My dad was a butcher for most of his working life, so I understand the meat trade better than most. I think you should maybe read up on the facts rather than making inaccurate inflammatory remarks.
I don’t eat eggs because of the cholesterol content. I don’t strictly avoid it, but do try to avoid it on a daily/weekly basis.
