Rotten eggs as fertilizer

[Ladybird CA]

My mom loves to garden and she said I can use eggs that didn’t make it in the incubator, even rotten eggs and shells for the garden. I dug some eggs that were quitters and the soil does look better.

 

[DLA]

They probably would make very good fertilizer but I'd be worried about drawing in raccoons.

 

[Ladybird CA]

That’s a good point. I noticed something digging it up. I let my chickens out of their coop about half an hour before sunset supervised and they dig at it as well. My bunny uses the yard when she’s out of her Omlet but not sure if it’s her. There’s a cat that comes around as well.

 

[Ladybird CA]

I think I’m going to stop this so the bunny doesn’t get eaten. Thank you for mentioning it.

 

[kattabelly]

Do you compost? I put unfertilised eggs and quitters in my compost bin as it's rat-proof. That's the only pest I have to worry about getting in though, so I have no idea how easy it is to keep other critters out. They break down faster if you smash them up a bit rather than chucking them in whole.

 

[DLA]

Do you compost? I put unfertilised eggs and quitters in my compost bin as it's rat-proof. That's the only pest I have to worry about getting in though, so I have no idea how easy it is to keep other critters out. They break down faster if you smash them up a bit rather than chucking them in whole.

An animal proof compost bin would be a good way to use them without the risk. Good idea!

 

[Ladybird CA]

I heard about composting at science camp in elementary school but don’t remember how it is done. I do have a brown compost bin supplied by the city. Do you just throw it together in the bin or do you need to add other material such as leaves or shavings from the coop? Thank you for the idea!

 

[Ladybird CA]

Unfertilized legbar and silkie eggs and a polish egg.

 

[Ladybird CA]

That was before I made this post lol now I’ll put those in the compost bin

 

[kattabelly]

I heard about composting at science camp in elementary school but don’t remember how it is done. I do have a brown compost bin supplied by the city. Do you just throw it together in the bin or do you need to add other material such as leaves or shavings from the coop? Thank you for the idea!

When you say you have a compost bin supplied by the city, do you mean a bin for your own use or does the city collect what you put in it and take it away to be composted?

If it's collected, there will probably be rules about what you can and can't put in it.

If it's a bin for you to use yourself, could you post a picture? There might be different things to consider depending on what type of bin you have, but generally composting is much less complicated than some people seem to make it. You basically need a mix of nitrogen-rich "green" waste (fruit and veg, grass cuttings, leafy garden waste, coffee grounds, chicken or other manure...) and carbon-rich "brown" waste (dead leaves and thin or shredded woody material, paper, cardboard, wood ash...).