Over loaded with eggs, thread!

[MageofMist]

Yeah, we give some of ours to our neighbors too. But a few days later she said they didn't peel right when she made hard boiled eggs.

I've heard hardboiled eggs from fresh eggs are harder to peel. Anyone tested this?

Fresh eggs are indeed pains to peel. I eat my silkie eggs and quail eggs, and the older ones are way easier to peel than the fresher ones, but they are still way tastier than the market eggs around here.

The fresh quail eggs are so fiddly though, sometimes if the shell is clean, I give up peeling the small bits that remain off and just eat it as a calcium booster to go along with the egg.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I've heard hardboiled eggs from fresh eggs are harder to peel. Anyone tested this?

http://www.instructables.com/id/Making-hard-boiled-eggs-with-FRESH-eggs/
Also there is a photo just above showing to poke a hole in the air sack. Which I think is pretty cool.

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

Fresh eggs are indeed pains to peel. I eat my silkie eggs and quail eggs, and the older ones are way easier to peel than the fresher ones, but they are still way tastier than the market eggs around here.

The fresh quail eggs are so fiddly though, sometimes if the shell is clean, I give up peeling the small bits that remain off and just eat it as a calcium booster to go along with the egg.

Hi!

What do Quail eggs taste like?

 

[Hybridchucks]

taste a bit like duck eggs.......

 

[sassysarah]

I don't know what quail eggs taste like either

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Wow, $2 a dozen that is super cheap. I have not got my first egg yet and I use a lot of eggs, flock of 7 should be just about right for our family of 4 but I already have people lined up to buy extras and I can easily charge $5 or $6 a dozen. Plain old brown eggs go for 5.99 at Sprouts, I am in Southern California apparently people think brown eggs are special and worth more.

Gary

We use to charge more but the refrigerator was always full. When we had a stock of 45 dozen eggs filling up the frig and it became a burden.
We use conventional grain not true organic. If we used real organic feed we would pass on the cost. I see ads for fresh organic eggs for $5 on Craigslist all the time. If I call them and inquiry the type of feed they are using, sometimes they say manna pro egg maker which is what we feed. That is not organic feed.
So selling eggs at only $2.00 is not gouging my customers and they buy 10 dozen at a time and have been coming back again and again.
Walmart had eggs the other day to 79¢ per dozen! OMG. Granted they are big production eggs and don't have the deep dark rich tasting fresh farm eggs have.
I am just happy with having my Laddies buying ever bit of food.. For the hens and our herd of goats.

 

[CABINHOLLOWNC]

My babies aren't old enough to lay yet...but I've been planning what I will do with the extras as I will have extras. First I've setup a trade with a coworker who is a bee keeper. I'll give him eggs, and I'll get delicious honey! I also plan to take the extras to our small town's open tailgate market held on Sunday's. I selected my chickens for egg color first and personality second. So, I will have different shades of blue, green, pink, olive and brown! I plan to sell them for 5$-6$ a dozen. We'll see how it goes!!!

 

[MageofMist]

Hi!

What do Quail eggs taste like?

They are VERY creamy in taste, similar to a duck's egg. ^^

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

They are VERY creamy in taste, similar to a duck's egg. ^^

Ohhhh YUM!

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

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