Selling Eggs - Keeping them from freezing

[BeccaRecca13]

Good Morning Friends!
I have an abundance of eggs from my flock that I just can’t keep up eating them all, so I made myself a little chicken egg stand with a lid and inside the egg stand wooden box, there is a cooler. How do you keep your eggs from freezing? Should I be putting something else in their to keep them from freezing?
Or do people not usually sell eggs in the winter?
This week it’s suppose to get below 10 degrees (like last night at a whopping 7!) and I would like to sell some of the eggs.

Thank you for your time.

 

[sourland]

I'm wondering if hand warmers or a hot water bottle would work.

 

[Isadora]

I don't have suggestions but I'm following this thread to see what else people say.

 

[Ridgerunner]

An ice chest keeps cold in and heat out. It can also keep heat in and cold out. You say you have a cooler in there. Not sure what the cooler looks like. Every time you open that cooler you let in cold air so yeah, that's a problem.

I'm assuming you don't want to run a power cord out there. With power you could set up all kinds of heaters, just like in a brooder though the temperature you would want would be pretty low. Without power Sourland's idea of some type of hot water bottle or chemical hand warmers you could put in that cooler sounds really good. You'd have to occasionally check it to see when you need to replace them, but you should soon learn how often that is. You don't want it to get too warm.

I assume those lows are at night. You might want to bring the eggs in at night.

 

[Mrs. K]

I have kept chickens for years, and these are my ideas on cold and eggs

If the nighttime temperature stays in the 20's, and the daytime in the 30's, not much to worry about.

If the night time temperature gets in the 10-20's - you will freeze eggs if left out in the coop - so Ridgerunner idea of bringing them in at night is a good one.

if the day time temperature is in the 10-20's it is going to be hard to keep them from freezing - even if you had hot water in a insulated cooler... it is only going work for a couple of hours.

Mrs K

 

[PopoMyers]

Not sure how far it is from your home to your stand, maybe, if you are an available person, leave your phone # for a customer to call you when there, and you could bring out the eggs to them. Also, they could pre-arrange pickup as well, especially if you have regular customers. Let technology work for you.