Button Quail Laying Eggs

[chuck12]

The Button Quail I hatched in October are laying eggs.

It is to cold to mail the eggs at this time and I do not want to hatch anymore yet...

Any suggestions on what to do with the eggs?

 

[KellyHM]

Make itty bitty omelettes just for fun?

 

[chuck12]

I thought about that or tiny fried eggs to go on tiny crackers

 

[KellyHM]

 

[spookyevilone]

Pickle them. http://www.quail-egg-recipes.com/ has some good recipes.

Craft stores are carrying little plastic and plaster "dove eggs" for the holidays, maybe substitute those for the real eggs to make the hen stop laying?
-Spooky

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

I tried using them for pickled eggs and they were impossible to peel. This worked really good though - soak the eggs in white vinegar, then you can peel them right off. Regular quail eggs took about 12 hours or less; I put them in the fridge overnight.

Otherwise, if you have a dog, they make great treats.

 

[spookyevilone]

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I either soak mine in vinegar or dunk 'em in icewater and roll the shell around the counter. The vinegar trick works but it reeks up my fridge

-Spooky

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

I had over 100 eggs in the fridge (some buttons but mostly jumbo coturnix) so this past weekend I got creative. I boiled half of them in water, then soaked in vinegar and was amazed and how well this worked. The other half, I just boiled in water with salt and vinegar. I chilled them in ice water and still had a hard time peeling them. Couldn't save even one button egg - all went to the dogs (who LOVED them!) So from now on, I'm doing the vinegar soak thing. Oh - and I was pickling them so it didn't matter.

 

[chuck12]

Thanks for the suggestions guys,..
Right now I have 2 Button Hens laying I think I may restrict their light to try to make them stop laying till spring when I am ready for them to lay,..

At least in spring I could mail the eggs to someone here who wants to hatch them.

 

[monarc23]

some baking soda in the water during boiling will make peeling any eggs muuuuchh easier

(theres a thing on youtube about it). if that was me if i didnt wanna eat em i'd boil em and feed em back to the birds