How many hen/duck, etc., eggs do you eat each year?

[iona]

I find that duck eggs are too rich and unless I know their provenance I'm a bit suspicious - having had a friend that used to keep them, and the duck were like the hens and would lay anywhere, including in cow pats or on the muck heap ! and ignore their "nest" boxes.

What are you suspicious about?

 

[tim]

What are you suspicious about?

Personally, anything that comes out of one of those dodgy ducks. They're avian spivs.

 

[iona]

Personally, anything that comes out of one of those dodgy ducks. They're avian spivs.View attachment 399379

I think that's a Rouen and they aren't great layers afaik, so you probably don't have to worry about dodgy spiv duck eggs unless you know someone who keeps them

 

[moochedit]

 

[Epona]

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Gulls are protected by law though

 

[moochedit]

Gulls are protected by law though

I bet their eggs taste of salt and vineger

 

[tim]

Gulls are protected by law though

There are licensed gull egg gatherers who are allowed to collect a certain quota of eggs that can be resold.

 

[WouldBe]

Personally, anything that comes out of one of those dodgy ducks. They're avian spivs.View attachment 399379

If that's a mallard you'd have a job getting eggs out of it.

 

[bcuster]

I'm unhappy with the egg producing industry

 

[campanula]

sweetheart and i get through well over 2000 a year. probably nearer to 3000 (we have 3 each for breakfast). Our largest single food item expenditure, at around £20 a week

 

[dessiato]

I average about 6 a week. This is mainly chicken eggs. Sometimes I have free range duck eggs. They're very expensive in this village, £10 a dozen, but in Lincolnshire I pay £6 a dozen. There's a farm near the village there which sometimes has goose eggs. I plan to eat them more regularly.

 

[dessiato]

I'm unhappy with the egg producing industry

I'm lucky enough to get them from a free-range farm.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

not sure i have ever done duck / goose / gull eggs.

never really given it much thought, but probably get a box of 6 eggs maybe every 2 weeks or so. have had phases of getting eggs from colleagues who keep chickens in the past (had a variety of egg colours from most recent one - don't think i'd had blue eggs before)

 

[geminisnake]

How do you manage to keep count or ar you guesstimating? Eggs don't like me, they make me ill, no idea why this has developed, I used to be okish with them.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

How do you manage to keep count or ar you guesstimating?

I record everything I eat in a spreadsheet and have done so for years.

I also don't get out much.

 

[Epona]

Mine's a guesstimate/average, based on how frequently I buy eggs.

Most of my egg consumption is in stuff like egg fried rice (which I am quite frankly addicted to) and Yorkshire puds, but I do enjoy the occasional egg mayonnaise sarnie, fried or scrambled eggs on toast, or frittata.

 

[Elpenor]

I record everything I eat in a spreadsheet and have done so for years.

I also don't get out much.

Gentlegreening your life

 

[High Voltage]

My best guess is "around" 700 / year

Most, if not all of my eggs, come from a local independent farmer from Wells market. 12 medium (£3.20) OR 18 small (£3.00) eggs per week, every week. Look at the breakfast thread, when I bother to post on it, either 2 or 3 FE (fried eggs) or 2 PE (poached eggs) or 2 or 3 scrambled eggs will feature, 6 days a week

 

[tony.c]

Probably 175-200 a year. Usually around 3 a week, except when I'm on holiday. All hen's eggs, I tried duck eggs but didn't like them.

 

[moochedit]

I also don't get out much.

you never know though. They might let you out one day