I have been overrun in eggs since their second week of laying, with very few buyers I began donating tot he food bank but they are only open once per month so that really wasn't helping much. I was trying to sell my eggs for 2.50 per dozen and I only had like 3 buyers. Of course much later I found out the reason I wasn't selling is because someone I know was stealing my perspective customers, giving a dozen for free for every couple they bought from her. well I resorted to tell my neighbours that for them I would sell them 18 eggs for the same price as 12, because I just had too many and my freezer is already full of baked goods etc that I made. In a week I get 12 dozen eggs, word has spread throughout my neighbours and the eggs are starting to sell pretty well finally. last week I had over 20 dozen in the fridge I sold 9 at regular price, and then cooked up another 6 for the family, the pets and the hens. this week I sold 3 dozen this afternoon and another 3 tomorrow to my neighbours. my fridge is still full of eggs, even in this cold (last night it was -19F) the hens have not slowed down at all. A least I am selling some, and still have plenty for us. its looking like a lot of Eggnog this Xmas, lol.
My DD's school is having a fundraiser bakesale coming up, I will be using as many eggs as possible and donating the baked goods to raise funds for books and library/equipment.
My Dh has never been able to eat an egg without suffering intensively from it afterwards, but when he returned from out of town he braved himself to having a fresh egg, and that has turned into having eggs daily for him with absolutely no side effects what so ever, to test it he asked his friend for 2 of his store bought eggs in exchange for 2 fresh ones. Dh consumed the store bought eggs and regretted it within minutes. I have no clue what in store bought eggs makes him so sick, but I am happy he can eat our fresh eggs. The friend he did the exchange with now buys regularly from us, after trying the 2 eggs Dh gave him he said that as long as we have eggs he will not go back to store bought. Even my kids who would't touch an egg prior to having my own chickens will happily reach in the fridge for a hard boiled egg or ask for them for their lunches at school.
