The first person who says eat them...

[ranchhand]

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Hey wow, I saw Paula Deen doing "omelets" in freezer bags- just simmer, in the bag, until the eggs are done. Add whatever you want to flavor them. So you could freeze, thaw and cook, with no pans to wash.

 

[BeckyLa]

Well first, get online and price a Sportsman.....

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

OK Silkie chicken and rooster red

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I knew some of you smart ***** would have to say that!!

I will start freezing some and I was thinking about taking them to the Breakfast Mission.....

It never would have occurred to me to take them to school!

I could do a sign on the driveway but DH had hysterics over people coming to our door! Our driveway is steep! Most people can't make it or are too - chicken!!!

C'mon I know you people have other ideas!!!

 

[Buster]

You could scramble them with their crushed shells and feed them back to your birds as a good treat that would help them produce even more eggs.

 

[Wildsky]

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[donnaIL]

You could call the local food pantry and see if they can be donated.

 

[Fudgie]

Send them to me, I have a 400 egg incubator that is empty.

 

[cyanne]

I currently get anywhere from 2 to 3 DOZEN eggs a day from my flock, and I'm not using any supplemental lighting in my coop or anything!

I have my own little system that I am slowly perfecting. I keep the bantam eggs for my own household consumption since we don't eat a lot of eggs and I figured nobody would want to pay for little eggs anyway.

For the rest I sort them into two piles, ones that are really yucky (lots of poo, funny color, cracks, etc) I put aside in a bucket on the counter. When I get a decent amount of these collected, I turn them into a big batch of scrambled eggs which I feed back to my chickens for an extra protein boost. I also bake the shells and crush them up to feed back for extra calcium.

All of the 'good' eggs, I collect in one of the veggie drawers of my fridge and I sell them. At first, I only had enough to sell a few dozen a week to people I know at work and I was able to get enough used egg cartons from friends and family to keep up. Now, I am getting so many that I had to order egg cartons from eggboxes.com and I am planning on putting a flyer up on the bulletin board at work to expand to people other than the ones I know personally. I also plan to put up an ad on Craigslist.

I actually bought my chickens mainly as pets and to provide natural fertilizer for my garden, since I don't eat a lot of eggs, but selling the eggs has been a nifty bonus because at $3 a dozen I am making more than enough to cover their feed and I might even be able to put a little extra aside for expansion projects (like a nice incubator).

 

[Sierra pachie bars]

You must have insane neighbors !! I would love it if a neighbor wanted to give me eggs even now. I only have two laying atm.

I think teachers would be good to give them too, or family. I think once people realize how much better farm eggs are then store bought you will have people knocking your door down.

 

[toddy111]

I would try to sell them, if not, simply give them away for free!!! Put up posters!!!