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

[The1andOnlyGAChickenKing]

We eat some, give some away to neighbors, and feed the rest back scrambled to the chickens, who love them. We keep a container in the barn fridge and serve about a tablespoon per bird each morning when we open the coop. They make a good protein supplement for any bird that's ill or injured, too.

I've considered this, but it just seems so risky. I'm so afraid of egg eaters. Once a bad behavior starts it's usually contagious and hard to break.

Glad to see you having luck with it. Maybe I'll get the courage to try it.

 

[LTAY1946]

We eat a few, Donate a few, sometimes sell a few, feed a few to injured or sick hens, & plant a few in the garden under tomato and other plants shell and all smashed up and mixed in the dirt. I've thought about throwing them at some noisy vehicles racing up and down the road we live on at 3 a.m.

 

[The1andOnlyGAChickenKing]

We eat a few, Donate a few, sometimes sell a few, feed a few to injured or sick hens, & plant a few in the garden under tomato and other plants shell and all smashed up and mixed in the dirt. I've thought about throwing them at some noisy vehicles racing up and down the road we live on at 3 a.m.

They work best frozen, when used as a weapon.

 

[Coop-de-doop]

Cook them, and feed them back to the flock. Along with the crushed and toasted egg shells! They love it!

 

[luckycluk]

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

That is a great idea! I was thinking about that because I have a lot of eggs to get rid of but I wasn’t sure if there is health dept. regulations at food banks

 

[Ridgerunner]

Different food banks follow different rules. You never know until you ask. Sometimes it can help to ask your priest, pastor, minister, whatever you call them. They are all the time being asked for help. They may know a food bank that will take them or they may know individuals that can use the help.

 

[Fowlsrfun]

We give them to the local food bank, they love em

 

[Burnt Brass Homestead]

We eat most of our eggs and dehydrate/freeze-dry to eat during the winter when the hens do not lay as much.

On occasion, I feed them back to the chickens crushed with shell mixed in.

We also, sell extras (but not much) to pay for feed.

 

[knoturavggrl]

We cant possibly eat all the eggs our girls produce, so I freeze some for the winter and the rest I donate to a soup kitchen/ food bank. They are so grateful and it’s a lovely feeling knowing they are going to help our community.

 

[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.