egg collecting is like xmas everyday

[jen5680]

It's like Christmas and a Easter egg hunt all in one!! I have had them for years and I still
LOVE it!!!!

 

[Dixiedoodle]

I agree, Christmas every time I get an egg! IF it is a first eggs--from any girl--all the more exciting.. I thought it might get 'old' to go out and see/get the eggs but I am just as excited as my 3yr old grandson... I also say thank-you to the girls every time I collect them.. I feel so thankful and blessed to have them here-- I feel like a kid on Christmas morning,,

 

[sharol]

I've been reading everything I can find about it, too, and I've decided to keep mine on the counter in an Egg Skelter http://www.egg-skelter.co.uk/ . I ordered one from England (they take paypal, and the shipping was horrendous) a few weeks ago, and it isn't here yet. I'm just wiping off the ickies (when there are any) with a damp paper towel. We don't eat the shell anyway.

4 of my 7 are laying, now, so I don't have an abundance of eggs anyway.

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[gryeyes]

I bought a Skelter too! And am also waiting for mine.

Dixiedoodle, I also thank my girls when I gather eggs in the daylight. I work and get home after dark, gather the eggs, wearing a baseball cap with one of those LED lights on the brim to find the eggs. But on weekends, and during the longer days, I always thank the chickens for their eggs. If I know which one laid which egg, I thank her personally if she's nearby, if not, I just do a general "Thank you for this/these eggs" depending on what I find in a nest. To any hen nearby.

 

[elizabethbinary]

It never goes away!

It's been a year for me now and I'm still surprised. I like to laugh I'm a Jew who celebrates Easter every day! Sometimes my girls will lay an egg in a new place just to be a little nitwit and there's like 5 or 6 nesting boxes strewn everywhere (they don't actually have a pen - they freerange 100% [small property, no baddies] and they have enclosed nesting boxes to sleep in)... so I hunt and I hunt.... and when I get a new duck egg I'm SUPER happy. I always try to guess if it's a silver to a muscovy.... because they always find new places to lay their new clutch. I'm getting blue Swede eggs right now!!! Natalie is on two of them because she won't let me take them away.

Couple days ago ALL FOUR of my araucanas laid an egg. Something about a pile of blue eggs in a nest was super cute. Then there was a pile of brown and a pile of white and some big eggs. Heeeeeeee.... so fun!


And now I get the excitement of spending every day looking for a goose egg, which I've never actually seen one of before! YAY!

 

[BigIslandChicks]

I dont think it will ever get old!!! all of my girls that are old enough started to lay within the past few weeks. 9 hens all together. i went from maybe 2eggs a day 3 weeks ago to 42 eggs so far this week not counting today yet (2 so far - i need to go back out soon to check for more - i know theres at least 1 maybe more

. i started writing down the daily count from monday to sunday for the week. I cant believe we are getting so many eggs

i thank my girls everyday!!

even for the one on the poop board this morning- i guess she wanted to sleep in and didnt feel like getting up to go in the nest

nice green egg covered in poop

i need to go scrape today

my least fave chicken chore!! but its worth it for those beautiful eggs...

 

[sixty7x]

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I do exactly the same thing. I've read that if you don't wash them it isn't a problem to leave them on the counter. Around here it's cold and usually by the time we collect the egg it's already been refridgerated so I just rinse, dry, then refridgerate. When the temp rised in the spring I'll try the counter/basket method. I like cooking room temp eggs better