Spring time has come upon us and the chickens have started to lay again. I thought it would be a good time to revisit my preserving from the summer before.
I picked up a 3 gal food grade bucket, the lime we were talking about early in the thread, and got to work. We'd keep two dozen in cartons on the counter which we'd rotate and refill with each day's haul and the rest of the eggs were put into the bucket. In a short time, we had the bucket filled with eggs.
First off, the quality of the eggs did decline. The yokes would loose cohesion and become runny. In the end, the family didn't want to eat fried eggs that didn't have a defined yoke so we used the eggs for baking, scrambled eggs, hard boiled eggs that were later cut up for egg salads or such. Anything where the yoke as a whole wasn't important.
Second, the eggs are still eggs and the water doesn't really protect anything. We lost a few eggs to breakage. It seems the advise to put the bucket in the place you want it to rest the whole winter. The eggs aren't safe from being moved from place to place.
Finally, I consider the project a success. We filled a 3 gal bucket with eggs and used almost all of them over winter. As the chickens have started laying, I will be cleaning out the bucket. I will just toss the eggs that are left but they were eggs that would have gone bad months ago if just left out so I don't consider it a loss. In the end, we'll be throwing away less than a dozen from... how many will fit in a 3 gal bucket.
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Did you give the thought of using smaller containers like one gallon size, and first filled, first used idea. You would need multiple, but easier to move around and store. 
