Official BYC Poll: Where Do You Get Your Eggs From When Your Hens Are Molting?

[Mrs. K]

In the peak laying of summer, I freeze several dozen eggs, both individual eggs in muffin pan, which I can pull out 2 'eggs' and use for baking. And a couple large bag all mixed together for scrambled eggs.

With this, and the few eggs I get, I usually can make it through. Although my DH will tease me if eggs are on the grocery list.

Mrs K

 

[Tclloyd0812]

Wow that's a lot of hens. What is that you do with so many hens? I'd love to see what your coop looks like.

We have 12 different breeds, we breed them and we have been selling chicks but planning on selling eggs once we get NPIP certified. I have hens and new laying pullets, they are all different ages. We have a large hoop coop 30×10 and another coop that was an old barn, we added ventilation and roosts its 20×15 I believe. We also have 2 breeding pens until we build more that we rotate the different breeds in.

 

[FluffyBottomBantams]

If enough of them are molting we have to resort to buying them from the store (as much as we don’t want to )but recently we have been getting some from a fellow chicken owner as well (note: we also have only bantams so we need more eggs to do anything with them)

 

[EllieandOlive]

My birds are a variety of ages and breeds, so they don't all molt together. Therefore we have a full supply of eggs at any given time.

 

[CrazyCochin]

Our hens never usually "stop" laying, even during molt, so we have enough to get by. But we just don't get enough to deliver eggs to people.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

In the past we have just lived without eggs during the winter weeks when the chickens are not laying due to either molting or to shortened daylight hours. But this year I have about 4 dozen eggs stored in a crock using the "water glassing" method. This should keep us in eggs through the winter this year (2021/22).

 

[SilkySilkie]

we use 4 eggs mostly everyday and we only have 2 eggs a day

 

[Iluveggers]

we use 4 eggs mostly everyday and we only have 2 eggs a day

I think you need more chickens!

 

[SilkySilkie]

I think you need more chickens!

yep we have 2 who should lay and one is a year old wyandotte bantam but she doesnt lay at all and we have 2 pullets

 

[AusHen]

As a family of 7 with myself loving to bake we always have a back up plan. when my girls are in peak laying I freeze some either in cupcake pans which I then put into ziplock bags or scramble in a ziplock bag, freeze flat then I can stack them. I also pickle a lot and plan to start water glassing. I also got my mother and sister into keeping chickens and they use less than us so always give us what they don't use