Eggs

[Roger B]

Maria, I would be surprised if you even knew people so foolish as to toss the yolks.

It is amazing how reductionistic, materialistic science can get everything so completely backward, especially when the Theory of Evolution is enshrined right above their heads, like the periodic table is with chemists.

Roger
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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:45:35 -0400
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Eggs
Hi Ginny,

Have a question here, due to erroneous publicity some people in my area throw out the egg yolk (horrors!!) and will only eat the white of the egg.

I can see where the yolks could offset the raw egg whites, but would you consider it safe just eating the raw whites?
I refuse to sell my eggs to people who would throw the best half of it out.
warmly, Maria

[Roger B]

There is much more magnesium in the whites than in the yolks. To assume that the white have no benefits for our bodies is to say that the Theory of Evolution is wrong.

Roger Bird
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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:34:14 -0400
Subject: RE: [Minutus] Eggs
LOL - Maria you are so right - the yolk has all the Lecithin we need for good Brain activity - they probably trow out the yolk because their brain does not work well LOL - you are right the whites have NO benefits for our bodies.
Gisela
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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:45:35 -0400
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Eggs
Hi Ginny,

Have a question here, due to erroneous publicity some people in my area throw out the egg yolk (horrors!!) and will only eat the white of the egg.

I can see where the yolks could offset the raw egg whites, but would you consider it safe just eating the raw whites?
I refuse to sell my eggs to people who would throw the best half of it out.
warmly, Maria

[Maria Bohle]

Ah, Roger, half my family is very traditional. Many involved in allopathic medicine in various areas. If you divided them in half, one half doesn't believe in homeopathy and of course think I am a little crazy as the buy everything the allopaths embrace. Low fat diets, cholesterol lowering drugs, vaccinations, etc.
the other half are listening and I do see progress sneaking in. I get new converts every year and a nf some of the adult children are catching onto the truth. It is a slow conversion - after all many of their pay checks reflect the status quo.
Maria
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[Maria Bohle]

I agree with you Roger, if you can tolerate them do enjoy them.
I eat my ehh whites but is cannot say I like them much, fried a bit crispy with soft yolks is my preferred way.
I think we tend to gravitate to the foods we need. Don't think I would ever eat a raw egg white but that is personal preference. But I am happy that you enjoy them.
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[Maria Bohle]

I think you are absolutely correct. But if you can tell me how to protect my animals from the predators I am happy to set them all free.
Fox doesn't just take one occasionally. The return nightly, payroll the animals and take anything big enough to catty off. One night I lost 20 quail ( they nust gave been the appetizers) and 4 pheasants. Three other times they went into the houses and randomly killed a dozen birds leaving bodies scattered everywhere. And that is just the fox.
Yes, I am in favor of free range, but it is not possible in my area.
Maria

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[Fran Sheffield]

Hi Maria,

We had the same problem. Our hens would always return to roost in their shed at night but when first built, it had not been fox-proofed around where it sat on the ground.

We solved the problem by staking chicken wire / mesh into the ground around the shed. The wire came in rolls which were about one metre (a little over a yard) wide. We passed one edge of a roll under the shed and attached it to the inside and then staked the rest of it flat to the ground with tent hooks around the outside of the shed. The grass quickly grew through the mesh, holding it in place even more, and there was no problem in mowing over the top of it to keep it clipped.

Before we did this we used to "box" the hens, 2 or 3 together, in cardboard boxes which we sealed - leaving air holes - and placed them in a lockable garage overnight. We had to seal them as, arising much earlier than us, the hens would poop all over things in the garage if they weren't contained.

It only took a matter of days before the hens had transferred their allegiance from their roost in the shed to the boxes. If we were running late they would take themselves to the garage and put them selves to bed in the boxes where they would wait for us to seal them in. Until they were that well trained, catching them was no end of fun ... not!

But it sounds as though you may have many more hens than us - we had about 8 and having now moved into suburbia, still miss them and their eggs.

Fran.

[Irene de Villiers]

11mg in the white, 1mg in the yolk.
Neither enough to write home about:-)

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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

[Tanya Marquette]

On my road, several immediate neighbors have chickens. They used to free range over on my property with the
accumulation of leaves, twigs and a lawn of natural grasses and ‘weeds.’ But over the years I have seen fences going
up to protect the chickens from the wild animals. So no more visitors but neighbors with 8 ft fences around their property
or sections of it. Some birds do fly and can mount fences. Thus the need for 8 ft height. That does seem to protect the birds.

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[Maria Bohle]

Hi Fran,

That was a good solution to the night time raids. We did have the fox burrow under the coop fences, we solved that by laying wire on the base of the fence with about 12 inches of wire on the ground, and that was pinned down, that stopped the digging. Our hens, and fox, keep early morning hours, one morning I looked out the window in time to see the fox jumping fences and easily catching a loose hen, we do not have anymore loose birds as they do not last long. We were morning breakfast for a long time, drop by my farm, have breakfast and get on with whatever fox do all day.

We have about 150 birds now in 5 or 6 fenced in coops.

Warmly, Maria

[Maria Bohle]

No, an 8 foot high fence only protects us from two legged predators. I watched the fox climb the corner post of one of my poultry pens in about 2 seconds. Foxes climb fences and posts and trees faster than a cat can. We had a covered coop with a dozen ducks and some turkeys. The netting was not tied down in one of the corners, fox went in, Killed two of the largest ducks, and climbed out of the hole which was just big enough to get that duck body through it. We could see where it dropped the duck by the feather pile on the ground. We secured that hole, but it found another and killed 6 more before we finally secured the whole pen. Racoons and opossums also climb, and the hawks just pop in when they feel like it.

Maria