What do you all do with your eggs?

The ones we don't eat, we sell to friends and family for 1.50 dozen. After that any that's left go to farmer's market and sell for 2-3 $ dozen. I increase the price for market due to driving them in and family ALWAYS gets discount....

 

we give eggs to all of our family and sell some at work.

 

I use them to pay debts and increase my power and standing among my co-workers. I also use them to maintain good will among my suburban neighbors.

Those clear 4- and 6-pack plastic egg cartons are great for distributing small egg batches; I get mine from eggcartons.com, but I know there are other places that have them as well.

 

Oh, and we COOK lots of yummy things with them too! You're welcome to check out my small but growing recipe collection; I have quite a few egg recipes in there, and they're so much better with home-grown eggs!

(Remember, you don't have to just make omelettes ~ creme brulee has eggs in it too!)

http://theworldofjenotopia.com/cmsj...ent&task=category&sectionid=7&id=16&Itemid=29

 

Most of mine I give away. For me, my chickens are therapy - like gardening for some, and I get a lot of joy out of sharing my bounty with others....And I'm too lazy to deal with 'customers', and don't really need the money.

We're getting about 10-12 eggs per day. I save them up and give most away to my church family every sunday. I also give them to my students and family too.

We eat more eggs than we used to - used to be a carton would last literally MONTHS in our fridge - but still no more than a doz a week.

But I get a big kick out of giving them away - watching people who have never eaten a BYC egg giving you that 'look' and then having them come back the next week with an empty carton and a 'BOY, you were RIGHT!...those eggs were GREAT!"

 

If you have pets you can hard boil them and mix them with their daily feeding.

 

People at DHs work are already forming a waiting list for when mine start laying! LOL

 

I give all the extra away. Mostly to family, like my grandmother who is on a fixed income. Everyone is happy to get them. I am proud to give them the eggs that I have "produced" .

 

I have a dozen people I owe eggs to who came by and helped build the coop and run.

I have two neighbors that ran to our house on my request about various doors/windows that were left open when it started to unexpectedly rain while I was at work.

One neighbor that I ticked off using lavender dryer sheets (who knew lavender was offensive?)

Also one neighbor who cuts the verge of our field near his house.

So I have a ton "thanks for the favors, here's some eggs" people that I owe eggs to and one "oops sorry bout the lavender smell, here's some eggs even though I think you are quite insane" person that I want to make nice with. Plus a line of coworkers begging.

Our chickens haven't even started laying yet. I wonder if WE will ever get to eat any of these eggs?