THE "WHAT DO I DO WITH ALL THESE EGGS" CHAT THREAD!

[wynn4578]

....forgot to mention pickled quail eggs are the best.

 

[MasAhora]

When I have to many eggs I boil a dozen or so and make an egg pasta salad with mayo and a touch of lime juice, salt, garnish from the garden......seems best served after a few hours or night in the fridge but everyone goes back for seconds (oh sometimes it more egg than pasta) and makes a nice easy lunch snack the day after.
Sick, injured or young chickens always get scrambled egg for a few days.
Plus the dogs get a raw egg once a week, one loves to carefully eat it from the shell on the grass.
At times I give a few to a someone who has a sick grandma or did something nice for example, its a nice way to show concern or appreciation without going overboard.
When I have just waaay too many I will drop some at an animal shelter near me -those folks do a lot of good and have little.

Ladies did you know we can use the eggs to give our hair and skin a treat!!!
A couple of ideas:
http://readanddigest.com/egg-for-skin-care/
http://www.thankyourbody.com/10-super-simple-all-natural-beauty-tips/
I am going try a few more of these (I may have to report back to you what egg and banana hair treatment is like... wonder if I'll stink of banana for long?)

 

[The Angry Hen]

WOW guys! Your all very smart!

 

[keesmom]

the odds of an egg actually having salmonella is .012% plus after you re hydrate them you would cook them the same as using a regular egg as far as scrambling or baking. So the odds of getting salmonella would be the same as they are when using a regular fresh egg. thanks for the link btw. egg preserver may be a good idea as well.

I admit I was reading about dehydrating eggs back over the winter when I didn't have enough extra to experiment with, and there seemed to be more questions about storage and quality than illness. Plus the amount of eggs you can do vs time to dry. I had wanted to look into it more but got sidetracked. I forgot all about it until this thread. I will say I'm not overly worried about salmonella. More interested in how it can survive. I routinely make beef and turkey jerky with my Nesco dehydrator using ground meat (NOT commercial grocery store meats) and we haven't died yet.

I still may try the egg preserver. I forgot to look up info on that stuff too.

 

[The Angry Hen]

Hello @MasAhora,

Wow! Thanks for posting that!
Does it help with knots? I didn't read the whole article,
but awesome!

-The Angry Hen

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Sometimes I take all the extras and toss them in a blender shell and all (after washing) then scramble them all up and let our chickens feast. they love it and the shells are full of calcium. Plus i don't want to rack 3 dozen eggs. lol

The blender would do a number on them...lol.
The eggs I give the girls never make it to the house.

I try to utilize the shells for the calcium so I save all the shells from our own eggs that we eat, let them dry, crush them with the oyster shell and grit and feed it back to them. My hens free range so I'll bring undesirable/older eggs outside, tap them against a 2x4 and toss them on the lawn. The impact opens the egg up and the girls do all the work of cleaning up the egg and shell themselves. They know they get all the floor eggs so they come running when they see me going to gather the eggs...lol.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

When I have to many eggs I boil a dozen or so and make an egg pasta salad with mayo and a touch of lime juice, salt, garnish from the garden......seems best served after a few hours or night in the fridge but everyone goes back for seconds (oh sometimes it more egg than pasta) and makes a nice easy lunch snack the day after.
Sick, injured or young chickens always get scrambled egg for a few days.
Plus the dogs get a raw egg once a week, one loves to carefully eat it from the shell on the grass.
At times I give a few to a someone who has a sick grandma or did something nice for example, its a nice way to show concern or appreciation without going overboard.
When I have just waaay too many I will drop some at an animal shelter near me -those folks do a lot of good and have little.

Ladies did you know we can use the eggs to give our hair and skin a treat!!!
A couple of ideas:
http://readanddigest.com/egg-for-skin-care/
http://www.thankyourbody.com/10-super-simple-all-natural-beauty-tips/
I am going try a few more of these (I may have to report back to you what egg and banana hair treatment is like... wonder if I'll stink of banana for long?)

I would like to make some serious potato salad to use up some eggs. Ugh, making myself hungry.

 

[The Angry Hen]

A bunch of ideas!

 

[KaylorFarms]

You could play egg relay races!! LOl

 

[The Angry Hen]

Yeah!