Anyone else give their excess eggs away rather than cut down on hens?

[conny63malies]

did you try to trade them for something , like veggies or home canned goods????

 

[caspernc]

give mine to the church with the best food pantry. But will be drying some for winter.

 

[MamaRoo]

I have a chicken co-op with friends. After 4 dozen eggs they buy me a bag of feed.

 

[turney31]

I put an ad on Craigslist for someone who "needs" eggs. I found a grandmother who was raising 6 grandkids on a disability check. She gets all my extra eggs.

 

[darkmatter]

Yes, friends and neighbors get our surplus, we keep more then we need for strictly our needs to compensate for age, losses and predators. Some of our surplus gets converted to snack food to accompany beer consumption:

 

[chicmom]

I give away my extra eggs to the family. I downsized a few weeks ago, because my "little backyard hobby" was getting too large! LOL It's my fault, because I like to hatch eggs, and I love variety and colorful birds.....But Flockraiser is getting so expensive! $16.99 per bag at TSC, and I had 23 chickens...They were eating ALOT, even though they free range all summer. So I got rid of 6 hens and two roosters......It was hard, because some of them were very pretty.....I liked them.

I'm down to 5 banties (and they really don't eat much at all), two turkeys, one rooster and five large fowl hens....It's truly a nice sized flock. Less poop and less eating.....More manageable for me.....

 

[bufforp89]

I sell mine at my little brothers school when I drop him off and pick him up. They are really popular with the teachers and I now even have some parents asking about them. I just bring whatever I have extra and am always able to sell them at $3 a dozen. If I sell 4 I have enough for a bag of feed.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I hatch my own for meat as well as eggs, so to keep a certain amount of genetic diversity, I need to keep more hens than I can use the eggs. The excess eggs are taken to church. People that get them are expected to donate what they think is a fair amount to a specific fund. That fund has supported the Heifer Foundation, water for Haiti, or a program for the elderly here in Arkansas, among other things. Interestingly, the pastor contributes less per dozen than practically anyone else, but the idea is each according to his ability, not a set price. And no one else has to know how much anyone contributed for a dozen.

When I have the smaller pullet eggs, I put them in an 18-egg carton instead of a 12-egg carton once they reach a minimum size. And the people at church donate empty cartons. I have no trouble keeping plenty of cartons.

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

I've been trying to bring my numbers up to get more eggs!! Had 6 laying through summer and I lost one, the ducks are just starting to lay, and then I have a few 15 weeks olds and a ton of 2 weeks olds! Between blowing them out for christmas ornaments and giving them away I never have eggs! Practically scrounging if I want to bake something. I like giving them away. I can bring a few dozen down when visiting my family and they practically fight over them(plus I'm low on cartons and I do a 'eggs for cartons' with my brothers! Motivates them to remember

), dbf has taken them to work before, I gave away hatching eggs too recently(although it left a bad taste in my mouth..), and I just learned how to successfully hard boil them! I cant seem to ever have enough and I dont really even eat them myself!

 

[kuntrygirl]

I give them away to my egg customers. They have an "egg card". After every few purchases, they get free eggs. Kinda like a Customer Loyalty Reward Program.