Illinois...

[cavemanrich]

I take out the shells from our breakfast cooking daily into chicken run. I just step on them, and leave. The pieces do get munched up eventually. Never encountered my chickens egg eating, except, when an egg falls down from roost, and breaks.
My chickens ALL have hy- skool diplomaz

 

[homeschoolin momma]

I have great success in selling eggs on Facebook marketplace. Last time I had over 18 dozen, I posted an ad for $3 a dozen or 2 for $5 and was inundated in minutes of people wanting eggs. I may need to post another ad soon....Im getting 15 a day!

 

[Faraday40]

I have great success in selling eggs on Facebook marketplace. Last time I had over 18 dozen, I posted an ad for $3 a dozen or 2 for $5 and was inundated in minutes of people wanting eggs. I may need to post another ad soon....Im getting 15 a day!

With me it's a matter of selling the eggs before the temptation to incubate them gets too strong.

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

Such a shame!

You could try selling them on CL or facebook. I know @homeschoolin momma has done that. We sell ours to neighbors. (Not really enough extras to expand beyond family, friends, & neighbors.)

Is there a food pantry nearby? I know they always appreciate garden produce, and with so many temporally unemployed, I'm sure they're busier than usual.

When we have old or ?able eggs, we feed them to animals.... our dogs or chickens. For chickens I change the form of the egg (either smash it enough that they won't know it's an egg or boil/scramble a bunch of eggs. Don't leave out the shells! We always collect the shells in a container by the sink. When it fills up, we crumble the shells for chicken calcium. They prefer it over oyster shell which they barely touch.

I give my chickens any left over scrambled eggs 2 or 3 times a week. Any more and they get runny poop from excessive protein. I also give a couple eggs worth of dried shell couple times a week for calcium.
Other than a hamster we don't have pets.
Trying CL or FB now I'm not sure with current situation. Dont really want to deal with strangers.
Family and fellow church goers not really close enough to make a dozen eggs worth the trip.
Maybe I will try local food bank.

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

With me it's a matter of selling the eggs before the temptation to incubate them gets too strong.

Lots of food suppliers shut down from virus outbreak. Maybe time to incubate and put on meat bird feed?
I think every day now I almost purchase cornish cross . Not quite ready to pull trigger.

 

[Molpet]

I give my chickens any left over scrambled eggs 2 or 3 times a week. Any more and they get runny poop from excessive protein. I also give a couple eggs worth of dried shell couple times a week for calcium.
Other than a hamster we don't have pets.
Trying CL or FB now I'm not sure with current situation. Dont really want to deal with strangers.
Family and fellow church goers not really close enough to make a dozen eggs worth the trip.
Maybe I will try local food bank.

Most of my egg customers get 4 to 6 DZ at a time

 

[Faraday40]

Lots of food suppliers shut down from virus outbreak. Maybe time to incubate and put on meat bird feed?
I think every day now I almost purchase cornish cross . Not quite ready to pull trigger.

I sell the day old chicks cheaper and price goes up as they age. A confirmed female is about 2x the price of a day old unsexed chick. It covers the cost of the unsold males. If someone ends up with a male chick and can't legally own a rooster, I'm happy to take it back. I rehome roosters to BYC friends if they're very good. (Sometimes these roosters do tricks or are so sweet because of the love they received ..... on top good breeding stock. I just can't process such wonderful boys! They get to stick around until I find a placement.) If they have cockerel 'attitude' I'll rehome to a farm with a bachelor pen to grow out or process them myself.

 

[Justso]

In short go for a walk in the woods and go camping. Too bad they closed all of our parks and walking paths.

Once again a hearty thanks for sharing! These are always fascinating to me.
A couple of questions I think about when watching this one. Do trees shed phytoncides in winter? And I wonder why they didn't do it a study comparing walking in the woods versus walking in say a prairie or other area of open nature, like a beach. Do other plants, like seaweed or algea, shed phytoncides?
Well there you go. Something for our future generation to discover.

 

[Faraday40]

I set 3 doz chicken and 1 doz turkey eggs. I candled last night. I have 33 chicken eggs and all 12 turkey eggs developing. I have Cookie sitting on some egg-shaped rocks. It's looking good so far.

I think the chicken eggs are 26 orp and 7 serama. The seramas are 100% fertility. Little Teddy takes his job very seriously. The orp hens have 2 roosters and are not close to 100% fertility. Sadly it seems Darling's eggs are rarely fertile. I guess I'll try some grooming before the next hatch. What's funny is that the lav roo's two fav hens are the young laced pullets (Stormy and Treasure). They're supposed to be for the laced boy.

 

[Molpet]

I set 3 doz chicken and 1 doz turkey eggs. I candled last night. I have 33 chicken eggs and all 12 turkey eggs developing. I have Cookie sitting on some egg-shaped rocks. It's looking good so far.

I think the chicken eggs are 26 orp and 7 serama. The seramas are 100% fertility. Little Teddy takes his job very seriously. The orp hens have 2 roosters and are not close to 100% fertility. Sadly it seems Darling's eggs are rarely fertile. I guess I'll try some grooming before the next hatch. What's funny is that the lav roo's two fav hens are the young laced pullets (Stormy and Treasure). They're supposed to be for the laced boy.

on turkey fertility

Lav roo likes the exotic lace