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I incubate 200 every 3 weeks. The rest I give to my neighbor... he eats and distributes them to the rest of the neighbors. He's a great guy, but him and his son must have the smelliest farts on earth if they eat half those eggs.

I was selling some for hatching... but man, shipping cost have gone crazy. It just doesn't feel right to charge 60 bucks for a dozen eggs.

My family is long burnt out on eating eggs.. we use a few for cooking, but after a while I think we've all become put off by them.

Cleaning the incubator has a way of curbing any fried egg cravings.
 
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The1andOnlyGAChickenKing said:
I incubate 200 every 3 weeks. The rest I give to my neighbor... he eats and distributes them to the rest of the neighbors. He's a great guy, but him and his son must have the smelliest farts on earth if they eat half those eggs.

I was selling some for hatching... but man, shipping cost have gone crazy. It just doesn't feel right to charge 60 bucks for a dozen eggs.

My family is long burnt out on eating eggs.. we use a few for cooking, but after a while I think we've all become put off by them.

Cleaning the incubator has a way of curbing any fried egg cravings.
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What do you do with your hatched chicks every 3 weeks?
 
Last year I was selling all my extra eggs, enough to pay for the chicken and horses grain!

This year no one seems to want to buy eggs - so I give them away to neighbours, friends and family.

Maybe I need to put a sign at the end of the driveway.
 
I sell most of them to coworkers, almost enough to cover feed each week.

Our family eats them- quiche is a popular dish. My college kid is home and he loves to bake (way too much cheesecake-I bring that to work to share out the calories 😜).
Pickled eggs is popular with a few friends

My dogs enjoy eggs. One has severe grain allergies, takes meds. I add one small raw egg in each dogs food, sprinkle whatever supplement/medicine and gone- no more unhealthy cheese food singles.
 
We eat the bantam eggs, i use about 1/2 dozen a day for dogs, 1/2 dozen for a horse, sell 2-3 dozen a week, give away 3-4 dozen..i am getting between 12-18 a day and thats before my 2023s start to lay..there are like 12 of them
 
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As we all know eggs are a welcome benefit of keeping chickens, but sometimes, especially after chicken math hits and the flock grew, some of us may have the wonderful dilemma of having a few too many eggs! I'm curious to hear what you all do with your chickens' eggs. Especially the extra ones.


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We freeze-dry excess amounts of eggs. There are some weeks where the girls will eat more than a dozen that week, and others where they won't eat any. So, they can accumulate really quick. Having a freeze-dryer is so useful specifically for this situation. :)
 
Last year I sold my excess but I no longer have a distributor. So this year my excess are being donated to the local Bread Shed, a free food distribution center run by a local church on the first Sunday of each month. We're averaging between 13 and 16 dozen a month so far (24 hens, not all are laying). I'm just glad they are not going to waste and are helping out folks who need them. We still sell a few, maybe half a dozen a month.
 
We eat some, give some away to neighbors, and feed the rest back scrambled to the chickens, who love them. We keep a container in the barn fridge and serve about a tablespoon per bird each morning when we open the coop. They make a good protein supplement for any bird that's ill or injured, too.
 

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