Too many eggs! Suggestions?

[Starganderfish]

We inherited a dozen chickens and a rooster when we bought our house18 month ago. We were excited at first to have the eggs but it’s getting out of hand. They’re great layers and we typically get 8-10 eggs every day. We’re a family of four but my daughter is sick of eggs and refuses to eat them anymore. My son will have a couple of soft boiled eggs or an omelette most days.
Wife and i do our best to eat some form of egg each day but getting pretty sick of them ourselves.
I’ve bought an ice cream Machine and am making a heap of ice cream (a 1 litre batch uses 5 eggs!) and we’re looking at picking up a pasta maker to use up more.
We live in a rural area so everyone has chickens of their own and isn’t interested in taking any of ours. Our families are several hours away so we give away a few dozen when we see them but that’s not a regular thing.
We’re in mid-summer now so production is in full swing but even in winter we tend to get a few eggs every day.
Storing/glassing/freezing isn’t really practical because we almost never have a period of such low production that we’d get into the stored eggs.
Hoping to start a market stall soon with various other produce (we’re starting to produce olives, honey, jams, jellies and soon maybe mead and cider) and we might get rid of a few dozen the way but again - everyone local produces their own!
What are great ways to use up a lot of eggs?
We have a dog and a cat but they say a max of one cooked egg a day for them.
I’ve contemplated hatching eggs out and rearing birds for meat but I’m honestly not ready for the slaughtering/plucking/gutting/packing process of that!!
We have about 60 or 70 eggs on the counter at the moment and they keep rolling in!
Help?!?

 

[MROO]

I make pizzelles - Italian Lace Cookies! Each recipe uses 6 eggs for a decent size batch.
Get yourself an electric pizzelle iron, or you'll be doing it all day.
They keep a long time in an airtight container, but they don't last long enough around here to make the regular three-egg recipe - they're usually gone before the iron cools!
For some reason the gluten gets weird if you mix a batch with more than six eggs, so I just mix it twice. That works well, though, because I can add different flavoring oils to each batch. Anise is the favorite, but we've done vanilla, lemon, orange and even poppyseed. Chocolate is good, but really finicky to work with, so I just half-dip them when we want fancy chocolate cookies.

 

[FrostRanger]

They will slow down eventually, trust me, and you will be glad for any stored eggs

That said, selling or giving away eggs and homemade goods might be your best bet (just make sure any required licensing is in order)

 

[MROO]

You can scramble and freeze them, too. If you freeze in an ice cube tray, you can store them all in a big freezer bag. A standard cube is roughly one egg.

 

[Three Stents]

most friends will buy the eggs

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

We make egg noodles. They have a long shelf life. Some say forever. Pasta can be used so many ways!

 

[NatJ]

We’re a family of four but my daughter is sick of eggs and refuses to eat them anymore. My son will have a couple of soft boiled eggs or an omelette most days.
Wife and i do our best to eat some form of egg each day but getting pretty sick of them ourselves.
I’ve bought an ice cream Machine and am making a heap of ice cream (a 1 litre batch uses 5 eggs!) and we’re looking at picking up a pasta maker to use up more.
We live in a rural area so everyone has chickens of their own and isn’t interested in taking any of ours. Our families are several hours away so we give away a few dozen when we see them but that’s not a regular thing.
We’re in mid-summer now so production is in full swing but even in winter we tend to get a few eggs every day.
Storing/glassing/freezing isn’t really practical because we almost never have a period of such low production that we’d get into the stored eggs.
Hoping to start a market stall soon with various other produce (we’re starting to produce olives, honey, jams, jellies and soon maybe mead and cider) and we might get rid of a few dozen the way but again - everyone local produces their own!
What are great ways to use up a lot of eggs?
We have a dog and a cat but they say a max of one cooked egg a day for them.

Have you tried Yorkshire Pudding? It can use a lot of eggs, but tastes like some kind of "bread" instead of tasting like an "egg" dish. Some recipes use a lot more eggs than others. Mine's very egg-heavy, and is posted here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/help-we-have-to-many-eggs.1493154/page-2#post-24948027

If you make any recipe that uses eggs, think about whether more eggs can work. I've done pancakes and waffles with a lot more eggs than the recipe called for (3x as many eggs, and I think I may have gone even higher in the waffles without any noticeable effects.)

You can also cook the eggs and feed them back to the chickens. I tend to see that as better than throwing them in the trash, but not as good as finding a way for the people to enjoy them.

I’ve contemplated hatching eggs out and rearing birds for meat but I’m honestly not ready for the slaughtering/plucking/gutting/packing process of that!!
We have about 60 or 70 eggs on the counter at the moment and they keep rolling in!
Help?!?

Have you considered butchering some of the current hens? If you want to reduce the number of eggs, that would be faster than hatching the extra eggs and later butchering those additional chickens.

We inherited a dozen chickens and a rooster when we bought our house18 month ago. We were excited at first to have the eggs but it’s getting out of hand.

Hens do lay fewer eggs as they get older. So in another year or two, the number of eggs may go down.

At some point in the future, after they slow down and you do run short of eggs, you might consider hatching some eggs to raise replacement pullets to become layers (but you might want a smaller flock at that point!)

 

[DSJMHenDen]

We made a lot of breakfast burritos and French toast, then froze them when we had a surplus this summer. They both reheat well. Kids love having French toast before school, and the breakfast burritos are yummy whenever. Right now I'm impatiently waiting for my girls to start up laying again only one of my 4 spring chicks didn't molt with the older ones.

 

[Bawkbok]

Can you donate them to a local church or food pantry or is that against some kind of legal agricultural law?

As NatJ suggested, scramble and feed them back to the chickens - they love eating eggs.

 

[gullinkambe]

If I have excess eggs, I'll cook them and feed them back to the chickens. They love it! Especially in winter when they can't forage, it's a good nutrient-booster.

I got a sweet-tooth and make a lot of desserts with whisked egg-whites. If you reduce the sugar and swap the cream with cottage cheese, it's an ok everyday food too.