21 eggs a week (mix between chicken & duck).
Too many or too few?
Discussion
I eat a carton every 1-2 days.
No such thing as foo many.
I can eat 20 eggs a week. It’s not enough to sell. We got about 10 a day when we were selling, and it was about right. You need enough clients, and you need enough eggs to keep them happy, or it’s not worth it.
I meant just eating yourself 😋
Oh, then maybe a couple more for when they molt or winter comes. Scramble and freeze the extras, or use limewater or wasserglas (sodium silicate), or salt cure the yolks.
Great idea, how many eggs do you eat a week?
You said you can eat 20, but how many do you usually get in?
Right now? Less probably 15 a week. For that I can thank two racoon attacks, a possum, and a groundhog that doesn’t eat eggs or chickens but is basically on the demolitions team for the bad guys. 😆
Ahhhh I hope I don't lose any to predators.
One of my girls just started flying over the fence 😵💫
I eat 2 every morning!
My 3yo eats 1-6 a day.👀😂
It's probably very easy for him to eat. 1-2 scrambled eggs every morning with bacon or so and if I cook a bunch, he comes over and eats them during the day instead of snacks.
2 raw yolks 0 whites a day is ideal IMO
Why racism?
I've just got that yellow fever
But seriously, the yolk is where all the nutrients are. I've found I digest yolk perfectly well, raw or cooked. Whites have protein but not much else, and the particular proteins the white has I digest poorly. I believe most people poorly tolerate egg whites. The particular proteins responsible for egg allergy, ovalbumin and ovomucoid, are found in the white. Cooking helps by denaturing the white proteins.
I do sometimes eat hard boiled eggs whole (minus shell), but I prefer raw yolk.
There's only been one study as far as I know which looked at digestibility of cooked vs raw "meats". It's cited by cooked-foods advocates like Richard Wrangham. It's a somewhat famous study in which ileostomy patients were given raw or cooked eggs (mostly white) from chickens fed a special diet with slightly radioactive material. This allowed researchers to measure digestion time in a variety of ways. The conclusion of the study was that cooked eggs are better digested, but I think this has been misinterpreted. The data the study collected showed that raw yolk was better digested than cooked, while the opposite was true of whites. However, the mix fed to patients was not 50/50 like a single egg, but heavily tilted towards whites. This produced the conclusion that cooked was better overall.
I believe the particular egg white proteins are poorly handled by humans and that raw meats have the edge in nutritional content & digestibility. Vitamin C in particular is present in fresh, not-heavily-cooked meat but denatures with cooking - quite relevant for carnivore diet.
This egg study has been used (I think spuriously) by Wrangham and others to argue that cooked meats are more nutritious & this thereby spurred human evolution (ie once fire making was achieved a nutritional payload was unlocked). I find more plausible Miki-ben-Dor's version of the fat hunter hypothesis. I think cooking is primarily a preservative and disinfectant process. Consider the persistence of raw meat dishes in various cultures (famously sushi and tartare but there are many others). Many cooked dishes are obviously of a preservative character, such as chili con carne ("chili"), which preserves meat by cooking it with peppers.
Duck eggs are underrated
I'm good for about 3 to 4 dozen a week on average so I certainly wouldnr say too many