Feeding frozen eggs back to your birds?

[Susan Skylark]

So -25F and quail eggs don’t mesh well, they freeze solid in under half an hour, and as I have a life, and figure that they have water a couple times a day so that’s something, I was wondering if I could bake the eggs in the cracked shell, cool to room temp, blenderize the whole thing and feed back to the quail in small quantities not exceeding 10% of their daily ration? Is there anything in this scheme that will be a disaster? How have you used up frozen eggs with cracked shells? Thanks!

 

[fldiver97]

I haven’t used quail eggs but I’ve fed frozen eggs back to the chickens and to my dogs. I let them thaw and then scramble, dry and crush the shells.

 

[neo71665]

I boil them and give them to my pet coons and my dog. I do it out in my shop on my wood stove in an old pan I don't care about getting messy.
I've scrambled them (shell and all) before and gave the chickens before. Just easier to hard boil them and given them to the fury ones.

 

[Yardmom]

I don't have quail, but we give cracked frozen eggs right back to the chickens.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Is there anything in this scheme that will be a disaster?

Sounds reasonable to me.

How have you used up frozen eggs with cracked shells?

I toss them in my compost pile or boil them and feed them to the chickens. When a hatch is over and I'm opening unhatched eggs to analyze what went wrong I toss them in the compost pile and bury them. The compost pile is a bit isolated and I do not live in suburbia.

 

[saysfaa]

... How have you used up frozen eggs with cracked shells? Thanks!

I eat them myself. I figure the shells didn't crack until the egg was too cold for microbes to be a problem. Since I rinse them and put them into the pan while they are still frozen, and cook them quickly, there isn't time at moderate temperatures for anything to grow enough to be a problem.

But if you want to feed them to the birds, there are no problems with that.