How do you store your eggs?

[Darkangel1]

I collect mine and wash and put in cartons.u don't have to put them in fridge.

 

[KLIL]

I collect mine and wash and put in cartons.u don't have to put them in fridge.

I think ill buy plastic cartons.

 

[Killer Tomato]

Most eggs don't have poo on them if you keep the nests and coop clean. Sometimes it happens and I'll wash and refrigerate those. All the rest don't even get rinsed until they are about to get cracked.

/\/\/\ This. Exactly.

If your coop is clean, and your hens are clean, you don't have poopy eggs. I have one hen who has notoriously muddy feet during the winter (I'm in Oregon, it rains, a LOT), and she mucks things up sometimes, but that's it. A sandy, clean floor in my coop is like magic for clean eggs.

It's basic science that if you wash the egg, you are removing the bloom, which allows more bacteria to enter the shell and egg. I'm not here to get into a big argument about this, as ultimately, it's your hens, and your customers, do what you want, but make sure your customers are aware of how you do things.

I tell my customers that I do not wash my eggs. I wipe off the sand with a dry, clean dishtowel. No poopy eggs go into their cartons. Ever.

 

[kittypaws004]

I use an egg skelter...this is an inexpensive plastic one that comes disassembled and snaps together, it can be made double this height, when I took the pic, I had less chickens:
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Do you know if this is big enough for duck eggs?

 

[catandmilkart]

We don't get a ton of eggs, so we use an egg-skelter (wire egg spiral) and leave it on the counter. We get lots of compliments on it when people come over

 

[Killer Tomato]

I think ill buy plastic cartons.

I reuse them, and I yell at family members who are the "crack the egg and put the messy shell back in the carton and give it back" people. Why would I want your filthy carton back? I charge them more for eggs, too, or sometimes, they get nothing. They want organic eggs, they can go to the health food store, where farm fresh are going for $6 a dozen!!! Sigh. I need to be a hard ass to get them to straighten up.

 

[KLIL]

I reuse them, and I yell at family members who are the "crack the egg and put the messy shell back in the carton and give it back" people. Why would I want your filthy carton back? I charge them more for eggs, too, or sometimes, they get nothing. They want organic eggs, they can go to the health food store, where farm fresh are going for $6 a dozen!!! Sigh. I need to be a hard ass to get them to straighten up.

If you dont mind me asking. How much do you sell your eggs for? And how many do you give when you gift them?

 

[SDocheff]

I use a countertop spiral so I know which are the oldest to newest. But that’s for now when I’m only getting 5-7 per day and using them or giving them to family. Once the rest of the 20 hens start laying, I’ll be selling them. I’ll keep them in cartons and in the fridge in the garage.

 

[SueT]

Do you know if this is big enough for duck eggs?

I don't have duck eggs so I wouldn't know.

 

[townchicks]

I don't wash them, and store in an old egg carton from the store. I only have 3 hens, and they don't lay every day, so we go through them fast. No need to date them, I don't sell or even give them away very often, we go through them so fast.