Topic of the Week - What do you do with all those eggs?

[sumi]

As we all know eggs are a welcome benefit of keeping chickens, but sometimes, especially after chicken math hits and the flock grew, some of us may have the wonderful dilemma of having a few too many eggs! I'm curious to hear what you all do with your chickens' eggs. Especially the extra ones.


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[ChocolateMouse]

I mostly eat them, sell them or hatch them, but for the ones I don't I usually feed to my dogs. I feed them whole and raw and they eat them shell and all. I also save all of the shells from the eggs I eat to go into my garden under my plants (we lack calcium in my soil) to help with blossom end rot. If all else fails, there's always the option to feed them back to the birds (I feed mine back raw in egg form, it doesn't cause egg-eating, contrary to popular belief. My chickens won't touch an egg unless I crack it first, even if I toss it in their pen. If I don't crack it they don't touch it.) or to compost them. They're perfect nutrition for your chickens, and great for your soil too.

 

[Pork Pie]

For me it's simple - DW sells eggs at her workplace - around 45 per week. I can almost cover my feed costs

 

[Hillaire]

Right now I'm at the point with my flock that they are for personal consumption whether it be fried eggs or hard boiled or for baking.... This time next year I plan to open up a farmers market table where I will sell eggs, vegetables and any pullets or cockerels I hatch out.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Any that we don’t use are given to friends or relatives. Any left after that are donated to a local food bank.

 

[alexa009]

We give some of ours to the neighbors.

 

[Chickening101]

Either give them away or cook them!

 

[BantyChooks]

Eat 'em and keep family supplied. Any extras get sold, but I don't have many of those.

 

[Teila]

Yo! .. Feathered freeloaders mooching around in the back garden, come check this out!

Yet another Topic of the Week on which I have no input because I buy eggs to scramble and feed back to you!

After I have served your breakfast, if you have time between dust bathing, sunbaking and generally enjoying your vacation, you might want to consider coming up with a way to convince me that you really are chickens!

 

[BastyPutt]

I made a self serve stand on the road. My wife bakes sourdough as well, so we put that up there and our extra veggie starts in the spring - or pretty much whatever else we want to sell from the "farm". We get about 7 dozen a day to sell, and average $4 or so per dozen (we just do a donation model of pricing on the eggs). We have five sons under 12, so the eggs have been something they have taken on. They just pay me for the feed and I allow the to keep whatever else they earn unless they need cartons or whatever else. There is also a variable rate daddy tax each week which they despise. Get used to it little ones! Someone is always after what you earn!

All and all it the little stand earns about $400/week in the spring/summer and everything sells out before 10am as long as we get the sign to the main road by 8am letting folks know it is loaded up. So not bad.