Neighbours don't want my eggs!

I've given eggs to two of my three neighbours (and the elderly couple over the road just because they're lovely).  Today it was the turn of neighbour #3.  I really wanted them to have eggs because 'technically' my coop is too close to their boundary, so they are the ones most likely to hear my girls' operatic efforts when they lay an egg.

So I showed up proudly at their front door, with half a dozen of the freshest, cleanest, loveliest eggs you could imagine... only to be tiold "no thanks, we're vegans."   

Do they have a garden?

Perhaps you could give them some chicken manure instead (or is that too weird)? 

Or is using animal manure excluded from veganism too??? I've never been too sure on that point!

I sell eggs from my doorstep and had someone turn up to complain that they couldn't peel their eggs, so there had to be something wrong with them! I patiently had to explain that eggs at their freshest are impossible to peel and that supermarket eggs are slightly older (!) which is why they peel so easily.
I've also had some refuse blue or green eggs (my Legbar and Columbine) because they "look funny". Takes all sorts! 

Agreed Grannie Annie - I am now getting orders for my good fresh duck eggs - more than I can supply. 

Veganism always puzzled me.  Suppose it takes all sorts....

However, to keep things simple, for anyone contemplating conversion to the vegan philosophy, here is a list for Dawkinists of everything that was originally put on this planet with being eaten by humans as the prime purpose:
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Of course there are things that have over the long years become selectively bred for that purpose, but the original source species..... well, no.

For those of use with some sort of belief in a deity the list is slightly more full:

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everything on the planet including things under it, in the air above it, swimming in the sea, and even swimming in a rather nice gravy.
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But (reverting with a lurch to the original thread subject), refusing fresh eggs?  Their loss for sure.  Someone who is daft enough to refuse fresh cackleberrries would even refuse bacon too.  Hard to get the head round, I know.    

As to others refusing blue eggs, we really look forward to southern-dwelling big sister getting some from her friend by way of swapsies and sharing the spoils with us on (all too infrequent) meet-ups.  If the people who refuse Helenaj's blueys don't want them, send them to me (the eggs, not the refuseniks)!