How do you store your eggs?

[Madie'sOddFlock]

We collect with either plastic coffee bins(which we also for grain), or we have 1 caddy type thing that we bought on clearance at Walmart(though we later found the same ones in the Dollar store... oops). We collect in the morning, anytime we spot some without a broody on them, and we just move the hens anytime after about 5. We have what I think are microfiber cloths, like what you would clean your car with, to wash the eggs or we have a soft sponge(from the dollar store). Then we have a towel with permanent residence on our counter to organize the wet eggs by date and they air dry. We don't always immediately get them into boxes but we label all of our boxes with a laid on date(LOD). It helps us know what to sell, what we need to eat, and what to give to customers we don't really know. Plus we can tell people basically just to use them within 2 weeks of the LOD. We basically keep dates together in the fridge and make sure we can keep them where we can see. If I organize them then they are top to bottom left to right newest to oldest... but that usually doesn't happen. And if we don't have a full carton of all one date we just use the older date.

 

[KLIL]

We collect with either plastic coffee bins(which we also for grain), or we have 1 caddy type thing that we bought on clearance at Walmart(though we later found the same ones in the Dollar store... oops). We collect in the morning, anytime we spot some without a broody on them, and we just move the hens anytime after about 5. We have what I think are microfiber cloths, like what you would clean your car with, to wash the eggs or we have a soft sponge(from the dollar store). Then we have a towel with permanent residence on our counter to organize the wet eggs by date and they air dry. We don't always immediately get them into boxes but we label all of our boxes with a laid on date(LOD). It helps us know what to sell, what we need to eat, and what to give to customers we don't really know. Plus we can tell people basically just to use them within 2 weeks of the LOD. We basically keep dates together in the fridge and make sure we can keep them where we can see. If I organize them then they are top to bottom left to right newest to oldest... but that usually doesn't happen. And if we don't have a full carton of all one date we just use the older date.

Thank you lovely, I can't wait for my ladies to start laying.

 

[Killer Tomato]

A great lay

I worried that it was too risque' -- but one neighbor/customer who is 92 years old, and was the minister's wife, thinks it's hilarious.

I figured that if I got the approval of "the old guard" in the town (above neighbor) no one else could dog me about it. Small town living gets tricky sometimes.

 

[Killer Tomato]

We are anxiously awaiting our first egg, but this thread opened my eyes! I hadn't even thought about how we are going to store our eggs! We have been saving egg cartons since we got our chicks in February, so we have a decent amount saved up! This thread has so many great ideas!

You're going to have so much fun with this!!!

It helps to have one of those refrigerator thermometers to place near your stored eggs, too. I have an older fridge, and found that my eggs were freezing when I had them placed in the door. I had to move them to a different spot, and fiddle with the temps. Customers don't want frozen eggs!

Once people hear you are saving eggs cartons, it turns into this silly game almost. I got over 30 clean/used cartons shipped UPS from different family members at Christmas last year! They could have just gotten me a gift certificate at egg cartons.com for new cartons for the price of shipping them!

Last summer, I got another 50 cartons, collected by little old ladies in assisted living (who don't even know me), driven over 1,700 miles including the Rockies, the Cascades, and other mountain passes, by people I've briefly met, stored for months in numerous relative's garages, hand delivered to my doorstep! Customers all want "Audrey's Minnesota Cartons" (they are pink and blue foam cartons from Walmart! lol).

This whole chicken thing is hilarious. I laugh a lot more since I started the chicken adventure.

 

[sluggospud]

I store mine unwashed in cartons. The only helpful tidbit to add is that I stapled a plastic sleeve to each carton and have some cardstock with the numbers 1-6. I use this to keep track of which carton is oldest. When the eggs in carton 1 are gone, I take the #1 card and put it in the sleeve of the #2 carton, take the #2 card and put it in #3 carton, etc. The most number of cartons I had going was 6.

Things get moved around my fridge too much to use placement to track which carton has the oldest eggs.

 

[KLIL]

I store mine unwashed in cartons. The only helpful tidbit to add is that I stapled a plastic sleeve to each carton and have some cardstock with the numbers 1-6. I use this to keep track of which carton is oldest. When the eggs in carton 1 are gone, I take the #1 card and put it in the sleeve of the #2 carton, take the #2 card and put it in #3 carton, etc. The most number of cartons I had going was 6.

Things get moved around my fridge too much to use placement to track which carton has the oldest eggs.

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This is a good idea! I'll get a system sorted well before my girls start laying

 

[Folly's place]

I too have a friend who ships used egg cartons to me, every Christmas!
Mary

 

[Abriana]

I store mine in a basket on the counter. The basket is made of chicken wire and I line it with a towel that has chickens on it! It’s really cute, and full of rainbow eggs

 

[KLIL]

I store mine in a basket on the counter. The basket is made of chicken wire and I line it with a towel that has chickens on it! It’s really cute, and full of rainbow eggs

Ohhh thats cute! Need a photo

 

[Abriana]

Ohhh thats cute! Need a photo

I’ll get one when I get home