How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

Yesterday I got 20 eggs, today 15….. I am over run with eggs, one of my clients went south at New Years for a month, another moved. So I am trying to move eggs. No success, as such I now have 20 dozen in the fridge.

Will soon have to waste the oldest eggs. Don’t like doing that.
Can you use them for baking purposes? Or you can try scrambling some and feeding them to your flock. I have done that with some but I did end up having to toss well over 4 dozen and that's almost enough to make me wanna cry.
 
Can you use them for baking purposes? Or you can try scrambling some and feeding them to your flock. I have done that with some but I did end up having to toss well over 4 dozen and that's almost enough to make me wanna cry.
My mum has been baking, and I am giving eggs away to friends, and neighbours.

Yes it would make me cry having to toss eggs.
 
4 eggs today, from Brelly, Helmi, Marzo and Juin :)

Love all this talk of composting! My chicken run is covered, so it stays really dry. We give them a thick layer of dead leaves, let them fertilize and tear them up for a few months, then sift it and replace with more leaves. This year we added the dry siftings to sieved leaf mold we raked up in our woodland to make potting mix. My kale and arugula seedlings are so healthy this year, I’m impressed! Thanks girls!
 
Yesterday I got 20 eggs, today 15….. I am over run with eggs, one of my clients went south at New Years for a month, another moved. So I am trying to move eggs. No success, as such I now have 20 dozen in the fridge.

Will soon have to waste the oldest eggs. Don’t like doing that.
You can scramble them and pour them into muffin tins you've sprayed with cooking oil. Freeze them and when frozen remove from the tins and store in ziplock bags in the freezer. Use for baking or cook and serve as scrambled eggs. Ree Drummond would add onions, bell peppers and chopped ham or other pork product and cook them in the microwave, I believe! (The Pioneer Woman.) You can also feed them to your chickens or dogs for extra protein (I would cook them first but I guess you wouldn't have to. No onions for the dogs, though.)
 
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I would love to be able to afford to make a compost system like yours. I would be in compost heaven. I could also compost my rabbit bedding and stuff.

Yeah, I had to buy a brand-new cement mixer for the project. That was the biggest expense at around $200.00 at the time. I had about $240.00 into the cement mixer compost sifter project with the barrel, screens, and the hardware.

:clap However, I was sifting out about $60.00 worth of compost every hour. That project broke even the first afternoon I used it - 3 years ago - and it has not cost me a penny since. It is one of the few investments that I have made that paid for itself on day one.

Since I had so much chicken run compost to use, I doubled my raised bed gardens in the first 2 years and will probably double it again by the end of this coming summer. Not a bad thing for an old guy heading into retirement years.

:old I used the old wood frame and wire compost sifter on top of the wheelbarrow for many, many years. But I just got to an age where it made more sense to invest in better composting equipment to save my old back from all the manual labor. What used to take me an hour or more to sift manually, I can now do in less than 10 minutes with the cement mixer compost sifter.

My composting chickens do most of the work inside the chicken run, scratching and pecking, and they love it. I think happy chickens give more eggs as a result. In any case, my backyard chickens have improved my life with fresh eggs and black gold compost whenever I want.
 
Will soon have to waste the oldest eggs. Don’t like doing that.

Sorry to hear that. I would be looking at ways to buy you some more time. Like maybe cracking the eggs, mixing them up really good, and freezing them in containers that you could later use for scrambled eggs, French toast, or baking. Still, 20 dozen eggs would be too much for me.

Just want to mention that you might have a local food bank or charity that could use those excess eggs. At least you would get a good feeling that you helped out some people who needed it.

As a last resort, I guess I would cook them up and feed them back to the chickens if I had no other options. Every once in a while, I might break an egg when taking them out of the nest box. I just gather up as much of the egg as I can and cook it up for the chickens. They don't mind if there is some eggshell in the scrambled eggs, or nest litter, for example. Chickens love cooked eggs.
 

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