it made me SICK!
By Modestah
@Modestah (11179)
United States
June 18, 2007 4:01pm CST
my husband brought me in some eggs from the barn for his lunch. Can't get much fresher than that!
So I have the butter melting in the pan - the sausage on the ready - crack one egg - plop - sizzle, crack the other egg and no plop - oooooze
I throw the egg down, scream in that oh so delicate blood curdling manner I have, and blood is drooling all over my stove top from the egg I threw down.
It was an incubated chick probably about day 17....augh.
I had to have my son take care of cleaning it up, it made me too ill to look at it.
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@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
18 Jun 07
OMG! That would have made me sick also! Poor chick.
Once in a while I will get an egg from the store that has some blood in it and it totally turns me off from eating eggs for a long time.
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@Modestah (11179)
• United States
18 Jun 07
the drop of bed, while unappetizing in appearance is not from a forming chick - rather just a piece of tissue from the hen that sloughed off during the process of making the egg, the last thing to go on the egg is the shell - or actually that is the second to last thing, the last thing to go on is the color of the shell... :)
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@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
19 Jun 07
I guess I really didn't need to know the process of the egg making. I am totally grossed out now!
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@Nykkee (2522)
• Canada
18 Jun 07
Oh god that's horrible. I feel for you. That happened to a co-worker of mine when I worked at McDonalds, she was making the eggs for the egg-mcmuffins and one of the eggs was fertilized, it wasn't quite as bad as what happened to you but I don't think she even ate egg again unless it came out of a carton.
@misheleen73 (6037)
• United States
18 Jun 07
I had that happen once from a store bought egg. It was so gross, I stopped eating eggs for the longest time, and even now I don't eat them as much as I used to. I am sorry you had to witness that, my stomach is turning just thinking about it... :(
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@miamilady (4910)
• United States
18 Jun 07
Oh my Gosh! Yuck! lol I don't know how long that would make me stop eating eggs for. I'm kind of funny about eating eggs anyways. Sometimes I love them, other times I'm kind of disgusted by them. I don't know why. That's just how I am. If I saw what you did. ugh. I can't imagine.
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@Modestah (11179)
• United States
19 Jun 07
sheesh louise,
it did not get marked. we let some hens go broody, not a problem. we mark the eggs they sat on and collect all others. this one either did not get marked or the mark wore off. husband said it was not under the hen when he gathered it - so, she probably pushed it aside because it was already nasty.
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@Modestah (11179)
• United States
19 Jun 07
as far as keeping the roosters separate- we let our poultry free range. part of the reason we got them is for tick control, they do not do well at this if they are penned up. we also like the eggs better from free ranging, they are healthier and tastier. we also think it makes for happier chickens :) The roosters are good protectors to the hens, we do not want them penned up or separated.
as a consequence this incident happened today. I am over it already. it is the first time this has happened in 7 years.
the risk is worth it for having happy chickens :)
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@loloapples (9)
• United States
19 Jun 07
ew. that is all i have to say to that...
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
19 Jun 07
eeww..i think i definitely would have thrown up.
probably be the last time i ate an egg for a good long time too :(
@Rickrocks8 (1751)
• United States
19 Jun 07
I'm some countries they eat those! Yucko I watched a show about it grossed me out like no tomorrow! I may be unable to eat eggs for a few weeks now!
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@newtondak (3946)
• United States
16 Jun 08
We have several hens, but we don't have a rooster - that way the eggs never get fertilized, so there's no chance of that happening.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
23 May 08
oh poor modestah I just got a cringe in my tummy'p
picturing that yuck and then some. and ihave heard
that in some countries they eat eggs that have growing'
chicks in them. when I read that posting I could not'
eat an egg for three days just thinking about it. I
guess it depends on how you are brought up. but its
gross to me
@juls2me2 (2150)
• United States
22 Jun 07
How sad..... I probably couldn't handle the cleanup either.
@mamasan34 (6518)
• United States
26 Aug 07
Oh that happened to my mom when i was a kid. We lived on a farm and we had fresh eggs as well. My mother was making us eggs for breakfast as I was standing next to her, telling her to hurry up and I saw that happen as it happened to you. I was so sick, I didn't eat another egg for quite some many years and still to this day I still have issues eating eggs unless they are smothered in ketchup and pepper.
@CoffeeAnyone (3210)
• Canada
19 Jun 07
Okay, you just had one of my worse fears happen to you! I buy farm eggs all the time and I am always afraid that mistake will be made one day. YUK
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@4cuteboys (4099)
• United States
24 Jun 07
OMG that is so gross. I almost gagged just thinking about it after I read this! Now I am hesitant to even want to eat eggs anymore. Yuck yuck yuck!! I would have been throwing up though for sure if I saw this.
@ladyljs (1303)
• United States
19 Jun 07
Oh! NO!
I had this experience and can't even eat eggs to this day!
@xiuluoelly (1224)
• China
26 Aug 07
Sounds disgusting, I think I will fall sick, but I have no time to eat eggs, and more eggs than I like to eat chicken.lol.....
