Egg storage

[CarolinaHen]

My reasoning on that is that my eggs aren't fertile so I won't have chicks running around on my counter!

Even fertile eggs won't incubate in room temperature. No worries about chicks running around on your counter unless you leave them in a 100 degree house with exceptionally high humidity. Fertilized eggs don't start forming baby chicks until they are incubated.

 

[bruceha2000]

Question
I was told that I cant use my eggs for devil eggs .......true or not

Absolutely NOT true. Why would anyone want to buy factory farm eggs when they are getting fresh eggs? I haven't bought eggs at the store since my girls started laying Nov of 2012. If they slack (like most of them did this winter), we just wait

There's a couple easy ways to peel a fresh hard boiled egg. You can add a teaspoon of baking soda to the water before you put the eggs in. Or when the eggs are done put them in a bowl of water and ice for 30 seconds or a minute then put them back in the boiling water for 30 seconds. It will cause the small air pocket to expand real quick and crack the shell and then the shell and membrane will peel off easy.

What nrford said

There is a thread somewhere talking about various ways to make hard boiled FRESH eggs and still be able to peel them. Sure you CAN let them get old first, but that would be against the whole idea of getting fresh eggs in the first place.

Bruce

 

[GAFarmGirl87]

Absolutely NOT true. Why would anyone want to buy factory farm eggs when they are getting fresh eggs? I haven't bought eggs at the store since my girls started laying Nov of 2012. If they slack (like most of them did this winter), we just wait

Bruce

Agreed! I have so many chickens I got plenty of eggs in winter, even when they slacked off. I just sold less to customers so I had what I wanted for eating and baking

 

[austinm]

Amazing how mother nature keeps things I knew that eggs have a protective coating but didn't realize they could be kept so long out of the frig.

 

[austinm]

I also totally agree store bought eggs suck not even close to my own eggs. I also have enough chickens that even in the winter I have plenty of eggs to eat and sell.

 

[GAFarmGirl87]

I also totally agree store bought eggs suck not even close to my own eggs. I also have enough chickens that even in the winter I have plenty of eggs to eat and sell.

isn't it nice? I will try to always keep at least a few laying hens, so I can have fresh eggs.

 

[tntchix]

Phew! All 21 pages. Lots of info, more than I ever even knew about eggs. Why do they keep us in the dark about these things? LOL

 

[KingKongChicken]

I didn't read all 21 pages from this thread but I had a question maybe some one can answer. So one of my chickens has started laying pullet eggs so far 8 eggs in 8 days, so my question is this do you know if leaving an egg or few eggs in the nest box will encourage my other girls to use the nest box or start laying eggs also? I noticed only 1 of the 3 nest boxes were being used so I moved one of the eggs to the next nest box over to see if my pullet would use the newly occupied nest box and sure enough the next day the I found a second egg in the newly occupied nest box. So is it a good idea to keep one egg in each next box to try and keep them using all of the nest boxes? And does it encourage the chickens to lay and or use the nest boxes if a I keep a few eggs in them?

 

[HighStreetCoop]

I didn't read all 21 pages from this thread but I had a question maybe some one can answer. So one of my chickens has started laying pullet eggs so far 8 eggs in 8 days, so my question is this do you know if leaving an egg or few eggs in the nest box will encourage my other girls to use the nest box or start laying eggs also? I noticed only 1 of the 3 nest boxes were being used so I moved one of the eggs to the next nest box over to see if my pullet would use the newly occupied nest box and sure enough the next day the I found a second egg in the newly occupied nest box. So is it a good idea to keep one egg in each next box to try and keep them using all of the nest boxes? And does it encourage the chickens to lay and or use the nest boxes if a I keep a few eggs in them?

This is why a lot of people have wooden or ceramic eggs (or golf balls, LOL!) in their nesting boxes.

 

[JadedPhoenix]

I agree with the wooden or ceramic eggs being better than leaving your eggs out. I used ping pong balls. A bit cheaper. Even if nothing is in the nests, however, the other chickens will learn by observation. Depending on how many chickens you have, all of them may even decide to just use one or two boxes anyway. I once watched as FOUR hens lined up to wait on a box despite the fact that I have six. I really should have taken a picture then.