MarkGelbart
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I was walking around a suburban 30 acre lake near Augusta, Georgia yesterday. There is an overpopulation of Canadian geese living year round on this body of water. I found 3 goose eggs in shallow water.
I did an admittedly stupid thing--I hard boiled one of them and ate it. It has been 7 hours and I haven't gotten sick yet.
I determined that the egg was probably still good because it sank in a pot of water. If the egg was bad, the CO2 would have caused it to float. I opted to hard boil it because the lake has high amounts of ecoli from the geese droppings and for sure there was bacteria on the egg shell.
It was a good egg, noticeably bigger than extra large chicken eggs at the grocery store. It had a large rich yolk. The taste matched that of the best store bought eggs.
However, it was a stupid gamble. Food poisoning can cause kidney failure and lifelong health problems.
What I can't understand is why the eggs were in the water. I'm guessing that it was too early to nest and the eggs just came out of the goose unexpectedly. Or someone found them, thought there were too many geese, and threw them in the water.
Anybody know why geese would lay eggs directly in water?
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I did an admittedly stupid thing--I hard boiled one of them and ate it. It has been 7 hours and I haven't gotten sick yet.
I determined that the egg was probably still good because it sank in a pot of water. If the egg was bad, the CO2 would have caused it to float. I opted to hard boil it because the lake has high amounts of ecoli from the geese droppings and for sure there was bacteria on the egg shell.
It was a good egg, noticeably bigger than extra large chicken eggs at the grocery store. It had a large rich yolk. The taste matched that of the best store bought eggs.
However, it was a stupid gamble. Food poisoning can cause kidney failure and lifelong health problems.
What I can't understand is why the eggs were in the water. I'm guessing that it was too early to nest and the eggs just came out of the goose unexpectedly. Or someone found them, thought there were too many geese, and threw them in the water.
Anybody know why geese would lay eggs directly in water?
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http://markgelbart.wordpress.com