How do you store your eggs?

[SueT]

Here's a cute YouTube video demonstrating putting together and using the plastic skelters. The little girl learns that you can't use skelters like a marble run, but rather you have to slow the roll...

 

[Killer Tomato]

The first egg is super exciting, and cause of much celebration! All my neighbors knew about it. I had "customers" (friends, family, neighbors) arguing over who got to buy my first dozen.

 

[Better Than Rubies]

I have different types of egg cartons, and my pullets just started laying about a week-and-a-half ago I believe, so a lot of the eggs are still on the small side (I hope they get bigger!). Just recently I'm getting four eggs daily, but yesterday I got five (I believe five of my six pullets are laying). I already have two dozen eggs, plus maybe four more or so in a new carton...not counting two we've already eaten. Anyways, we keep our eggs stored in the fridge, and I haven't washed any of them off, because even though a couple could benefit from a brief rinse, there's really no need to wash mine since they're so clean looking. I have gently wiped a little dirt/debris off of some of the egg shells with my fingers or dry paper towel, though.
Here's a picture of each carton and the eggs inside (the top one contains the oldest eggs, and the bottom one contains the newest ones, four of which were collected today, and one from yesterday):

 

[Killer Tomato]

I have different types of egg cartons, and my pullets just started laying about a week-and-a-half ago I believe, so a lot of the eggs are still on the small side (I hope they get bigger!). Just recently I'm getting four eggs daily, but yesterday I got five (I believe five of my six pullets are laying). I already have two dozen eggs, plus maybe four more or so in a new carton...not counting two we've already eaten. Anyways, we keep our eggs stored in the fridge, and I haven't washed any of them off, because even though a couple could benefit from a brief rinse, there's really no need to wash mine since they're so clean looking. I have gently wiped a little dirt/debris off of some of the egg shells with my fingers or dry paper towel, though.
Here's a picture of each carton and the eggs inside (the top one contains the oldest eggs, and the bottom one contains the newest ones, four of which were collected today, and one from yesterday):
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Don't you love those claims on the cartons that say, "Vegetarian" fed? Buhahaha! I've watched my chickens devour worms, their own eggs, frogs and other living things. They'd eat the cats if they held still long enough. There's no way mine are vegetarians.

 

[KLIL]

*Should* all be hens..... Watch the behavior of the possible roo. Could be a very dominant, large hen (our Cuckoo Marans was like this) or it could be a cockerel. Our rooster crowed early -- 4.5 weeks, no lie, he started trying to crow. We thought someone was being murdered in the bathroom (where the chicks were brooding).
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She is a lot bigger then the rest of the hens. She is the leader and puts the others into line but I have also noticed another chick standing up to her too.

 

[Cryss]

I wash them which I realise removes the protective bloom making it necessary to refrigerate them. Washing is necessary here because my daughter is ill and even the slightest chamce of bacteria from a dirty shell is frightening. At the same time I dont want them to "dry out" so to speak. Without bloom the refrigerator would draw moisture through the "pores" of the shell. To counter this I replace the bloom by very lightly coating the entire egg in mineral oil. I keep them in the fridge where they stay so fresh I have serious difficulty hard boiling them for weeks and weeks. When i put them in the fridge I stack them, oldest on the top and to the left. The carton that I am currently filling is alone all the way to the right. And, I have an egg carton that is clearly marked in multiple areas as the one holding hard boiled eggs PLUS I put a mark on top of each hard boiled egg, no oopsies!

 

[KLIL]

I wash them which I realise removes the protective bloom making it necessary to refrigerate them. Washing is necessary here because my daughter is ill and even the slightest chamce of bacteria from a dirty shell is frightening. At the same time I dont want them to "dry out" so to speak. Without bloom the refrigerator would draw moisture through the "pores" of the shell. To counter this I replace the bloom by very lightly coating the entire egg in mineral oil. I keep them in the fridge where they stay so fresh I have serious difficulty hard boiling them for weeks and weeks. When i put them in the fridge I stack them, oldest on the top and to the left. The carton that I am currently filling is alone all the way to the right. And, I have an egg carton that is clearly marked in multiple areas as the one holding hard boiled eggs PLUS I put a mark on top of each hard boiled egg, no oopsies!

I did read the article about the protective bloom on eggs. Extemely interesting.

 

[Cryss]

Chek this out. I love this lady, especially her older vids.

 

[KLIL]

Chek this out. I love this lady, especially her older vids.

I'll watch it when I can use sound lol. Working at the moment

 

[TAM Farm]

*Should* all be hens..... Watch the behavior of the possible roo. Could be a very dominant, large hen (our Cuckoo Marans was like this) or it could be a cockerel. Our rooster crowed early -- 4.5 weeks, no lie, he started trying to crow. We thought someone was being murdered in the bathroom (where the chicks were brooding).
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A great lay